<p>What class is the most meaningful? I don’t want an easy A but a class that I can get something out in the end.(not too difficult though) I really don’t understand why ARLT is a part of GEs so I am quiet unsure what I’m supposed to get out of the class.</p>
<p>lots of reading and writing about what you read. choose a topic that interests you, like a literature from a culture that you’re interested in but haven’t ever read a lot of the writing style. most seem to be basically literature classes with discussion of the topics that come up and the different styles of presentation. I actually liked ARLT quite a bit. I took the Japanese Fiction & Film course.</p>
<p>Looking at the ARLT 100g courses which are open to freshmen and on GE list, they all seem to be aleady full. How is this possible? Am I misunderstanding something? </p>
<p>I’m looking at
[Category</a> V - Fall 2008](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/general_studies/GE/courseguide/fall08/category5.html]Category”>http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/general_studies/GE/courseguide/fall08/category5.html)
and clicking on Fall 2008 schedule
[url=<a href=“http://web-app.usc.edu/soc/20083/arlt.html]ARLT”>302 Found]ARLT</a> | USC Schedule of Classes<a href=“click%20on” title=“expand”>/url</a>
Lots of courses my D shows interest in (if deciding against TO), but are they actually available? Same applies to other categories. (Noticed that eg that “The Science of Happiness” in Psych seems to be full too.)</p>
<p>typically, freshman don’t take ARLT…on the whole, sophomores take ARLT 100g (or ARLT 101 if so desired…) and the reason they all fill up so quickly is because sophomores have more units and thus register a few days in advance of any freshmen. (note that once an upperclassman, you have to take ARLT 101.)</p>
<p>actually, i take that back…i know a handful of my friends took ARLT freshman year, but on the whole not many of them did in relation to all the other GE categories.</p>
<p>Thanks phobos. I’m understanding then that the GE requirement for ARLT is rarely taken by freshmen? Since GEs are taken over 2 years, freshmen choose the other categories first? SI courses also seem pretty full.</p>
<p>ARLT isn’t so much rarely taken by freshman as it is that not many of them do. i also just remembered that as registration goes on, more spots open up, especially in the case of GEs…this is done for that specific purpose–they don’t want to open ALL the available slots for a class at one time so that freshman and people with later registration dates have an equal opportunity to register for classes. for example, as of April 29th, all the ARLT classes are “at capacity” with about 19 registered students per class…however, unless maybe they’ve changed the policy of ARLT classes within the last year (which is possible), the real capacity of ARLT classes by the time fall semester starts in August is 27 students. and from what i can see, most SI classes seem to be open still…</p>
<p>Phobos: Thanks! I now understand about slots opening up throughout registration. I was surprised that many of the classes appeared small (18/19 students) for GE classes.
Yes you’re right about SI, I think I was looking at another category.</p>
<p>I took History of Russian Art and it was pretty interesting. Professor Bowlt is a very interesting person and there are 2 annoying papers but you’ll get through it (its not that hard). And like 3 midterms and one final. But read his reviews, everybody almost everybody loved him. You’ll learn alot!</p>
<p>uyulove; did you take the GE or the TO version? I assume the TO version might have more “discussion” involved, or other extra stuff?
My D is interested in that course. I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it.</p>
<p>I dont think Modern Russian art has a TO version. My friend was in TO though, I have no idea what she took. From what I heard TO isn’t really that great of a program although it gets the writing requirements out of the way…</p>
<p>According to Nikara, post #20 in “Course Selection Orientation”, it’s offered.</p>
<p>FALL 2008
CORE 101 SYMBOLS AND CONCEPTUAL SYSTEMS
Professor John Bowlt, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
Lecture</p>
<p>Modern Russian Art (Russian Art of the Late 19th and 20th Centuries)</p>
<p>uyulove, my D is really torn between taking TO or regular GEs. She finds the selection in reg GEs really interesting.
How have you heard that TO isn’t a great program? Is there any info you could offer on this? Thanks.</p>