<p>Background: Majoring in Art History, Minoring in Digital Humanities, Work as a programmer at UCLA w/ Work study. Have taken mostly humanities classes but took one science course. Also took a graduate course. Living off campus, partied at most of the frats, know the bar scene/westwood in general. Took 3 classes my first quater, 5 my second quarter, and 4 right now. Came from a semester based CC.</p>
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<p>Are you living off campus as in private off campus apartments or are you living in the off campus university-owned apartments?</p>
<p>Nice – Art History major here as well, imnotfreud. Can you discuss the differences you experience between a 3 - 4 - or 5 course workload? </p>
<p>Do you have a particular interest within the discipline? say ancient vs. contemporary, western vs. Oceania, etc. </p>
<p>Taken the 150ABC series at all? Must say those three class are what I most look forward to.</p>
<p>how do you take more than 4 classes? It won’t let me take more than 4</p>
<p>How was it adjusting to the quarter semester? Also, how much more studying, reading, work do you input in each class vs how much you did in CC? How was the science course? How difficult it is to get the classes you need? </p>
<p>Sorry, I have a lot of questions :)</p>
<p>Hey, do you know if it is possible to cross-school minor in music industry as a student in the Letters and Sciences college?</p>
<p>is it possible to minor in film if i major in psych? Also, how good is my chance at transferring to psych from a california community college if i manage to get into TAP? Thanks!</p>
<p>412burgh, “The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music offers a Music Industry minor for students majoring in ethnomusicology, music, and music history”. It doesn’t look like you can minor in music industry. Check the register for minor and major requirments.
[Schedule</a> of Classes Home Page](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/schedulehome.aspx]Schedule”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/schedulehome.aspx)</p>
<p>cindylu2,
The quarter system is much more challenging, classes like calculus and physics will be much more difficult then community college and move at much faster paces. However the grading scale is usually curved, so a 40% in a diff eq’s class may be a C, especially in big math, phys… classes. it’s not impossible to do well though, most everyone is in the same boat and has the same struggles. For workload, its high! for example we are going into the third week of spring quarter, the pace for physics 1b has been one chapter a week, for upper div “science” it may be around 2 chapters per class per week. They expect more from you at UCLA, its not like community college were they have to dumb it down to prevent failing everyone, here mostly everyone would get A’s on a semi easy exam so they make it more difficult, in my math 32a class(multivariable calc) my teacher told us it was a competetion, it didnt matter how good we did on the test, only how well we compared to everyone else in the class, aprx top 25% A’s, 25% B’s and 50% C’s or worse. And there is alot of really smart people, but dont let it get you down, once you get through the few ****ty classes like that everything else seems easier in comparison. It takes a full time commitment and even still its a struggle to keep up. It can be extremely stressful if you fall behind and going into finals. Don’t let it scare you though, i was a b+ student in community college and im a b+ student at UCLA. if you dont want to work ALOT, then UCLA might suck for ya. Good luck with whatever you choose. I transferred into the college of letters and sciences fall 2012…</p>
<p>^ Saying they “dumb it down to prevent failing everyone” at CC is a bit of a harsh generalization, donchya think? And, frankly, isn’t it kind of self-deprecating since you went to one, while perhaps offending others?</p>
<p>^ In my community college, I found that many courses I took had an “inflated grading system.” Many courses were easier than my high school courses(I didn’t take many AP classes)!</p>
<p>Yea i agree zimzam, the answer was given in response to a question on the difficulty of UCLA vs. CCC courses. I think community college is a great route to go, with the tag system and all the transfer programs it gives everyone a realistic shot. My only real point was that the way classes are taught and tested is directly related to the student body and all its capabilities/flaws. The important core classes were taught well enough, but here it’s just tested differently, it’s very hard to get A’s and B’s on everything even if you’re prepared, which imo is in contrast to CCC were it was just a matter of effort. Im thankful for CCC, I think it is taught with integrity and does its job well enough. I also don’t think CCC should be graded more difficultly, i think bad grades are really demoralizing and would hurt more than help at that point.</p>
<p>At the risk of sounding a little defensive, I’ve gotta weigh in here real quick just to say something we all probably know but hasn’t been mentioned here yet: all CCs are not the same. The difference from one to another can be quite drastic in terms of the quality of education, the workload, the competition (yes, I said it), and their relationship with UC schools. I purposefully chose my CC because it is one of the highest ranked in the country. The funding, facilities, and faculty (for the most part) are on par with many 4 year universities. We are on the same quarter system here as all of the UC’s with quarters. As far as testing goes, those of us who are are the top of the class are at a bit of a disadvantage due to the fact that it’s a rare occasion in which we have our grades curved here. 90% of the time, the grade we get is the grade we get, so it’s not as simple as outperforming all of the slackers in your class. The only exceptions for this would be classes like OChem which weeds out the slackers real quickly anyways, so the curve doesn’t help most people. Seriously, every science prof I’ve had doesn’t hold back when it comes to their exams. We really do have to know our stuff to make that grade. This is just my own experience, and I’m not disgruntled about it in the slightest. If I wanted an easy ride, I would have gone to a smaller CC.</p>
<p>In other news, this thread isn’t exactly turning out to be what was intended. Sorry for contributing to that. Did imnotfreud thread-n-dash?</p>
<p>^ Precisely, Hokum, hence saying all CCCs serve the weaksauce is a brash generalization.</p>
<p>And, FWIW, there are many curves and weak classes throughout the UC system.</p>
<p>Yes you guys are right, this was just my own personal experience at one small CCC, sry if I offended anyone, my moot point just got way off track.</p>
<p>Thanks for that waitn2getDnied, but no worries. I was hoping to be more additive than argumentative. Cheers.</p>
<p>@waitn2getDnied Since the OP didn’t come back to answer our questions, would you be so kind and help? I know you answered some questions already (thank you)</p>
<p>ya its cool, just ask and ill try and answer if i can. So ya alot of people stay in the dorms the first couple years, that’s not a bad choice especially if your not use to being independent or without a car. As for apartments, the most popular neighborhood is across the street from the western side of campus extending back from gayley. Its pretty expensive and saturated with UCLA students, its about a 20 min walk for me to get to south campus. The dorms are about the same, maybe a little bit closer. what else… im not real familiar with the university apartments and to be honest ive never really heard of many people staying there. ya for cheaper housing people usually live further south to wilshire or even past that. parking is crazy around westwood, its generally pretty busy and ya big city feel.</p>
<h2><em>1</em> Are you living off campus as in private off campus apartments or are you living in the off campus university-owned apartments? </h2>
<p>Living in Privately-owned. Doing the same next year. It’s more affordable to have your own room.</p>
<p><em>2</em> Nice – Art History major here as well, imnotfreud. Can you discuss the differences you experience between a 3 - 4 - or 5 course workload?</p>
<p>Do you have a particular interest within the discipline? say ancient vs. contemporary, western vs. Oceania, etc.</p>
<h2>Taken the 150ABC series at all? Must say those three class are what I most look forward to.</h2>
<p>I came in with a strong interest in Precolumbian mesoamerican art. Took one class in that discipline. Hated it. Taking lots of random classes now. 3-4-5 courseload is not very obvious except around finals week. I had to write 3 final papers in one day. My brain fried. But before that week, the quarter was not tense.</p>
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how do you take more than 4 classes? It won’t let me take more than 4 </p>
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<p>You take 3 your first quarter.</p>
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How was it adjusting to the quarter semester? Also, how much more studying, reading, work do you input in each class vs how much you did in CC? How was the science course? How difficult it is to get the classes you need?</p>
<h2>Sorry, I have a lot of questions </h2>
<p>It was not hard to get the classes I need. The science course was amazing (it was a graduate course) and I did research in archeology. I think it’s slightly more reading than CC. I miss the semester system because I felt like I learned more. You cant learn that much in 10 weeks. In general I feel like there are less assignments at UCLA, more rigorous grading, and less interaction with the teacher.</p>
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<h2>Hey, do you know if it is possible to cross-school minor in music industry as a student in the Letters and Sciences college? </h2>
<p>I doubt it. They barely let anyone take classes in a different college (Film, fine arts, letters and sciences are all seperate-ish schools), much less get a minor. But you can try.</p>
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<h2>is it possible to minor in film if i major in psych? Also, how good is my chance at transferring to psych from a california community college if i manage to get into TAP? Thanks! </h2>
<p>I thought UCLA didn’t do TAP anymore? See question above for taking classes at a different college.</p>
<p>@imnotfreud,</p>
<p>Thanks for your answers.</p>
<p>My personal interests definitely shift towards contemporary, and I hope to saturate my time there with mostly post-1900 stuff, but I also have an interest in Ixapa and Mesoamerica in general (disappointing to hear you were turned off), and probably Chinese work after 1914, too. I hear Baker’s classes are an experience.</p>
<p>Do you recommend 3 classes for the first semester or do you think it could have been 4 just fine in retrospect? Any honors/collegium classes?</p>