Classes as a Microbiology Major?

sopranokitty
Thu, 02 Apr 2015 03:49:50 +0000

No, you do not have to take all your GEs during your first years. In fact, I have some friends at UCD who are now in their 4th and final year and are still taking GEs because they’ve spaced out their GEs that way. You should be balancing your classes. Since you’re going to be a Microbiology major, your science courses will fulfill the SciEng GE requirements through something called “double dipping”, meaning you knock out courses for your major while also knocking out some GE requirements. Which classes do you have AP units for? If you have a qualifying score, then I believe you do not have to take the equivalent classes. http://catalog.ucdavis.edu/PDF/CollegeBoardAdvancedPlacement.pdf For your first year, definitely take BIS 2ABC and CHE 2ABC, because they’re the prerequisites for practically all the upper division science courses. The two science classes can be taken together (lots of students have done so before), but balance them out with some “easy” GE classes.

Also, you can make a mock schedule on a site called ninjacourses.com. UCD also has a schedule builder, implemented sometime in the 2013-2014 school year, but I don’t know how to use it.