Majors/Minors

Re_en_Kam
Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:37:33 +0000

lishnik: It seems like I know what I want to do but I have no idea, haha. I just decided that I don’t want to do pre-med at all. I’ll double major in creative writing and psychology instead.

I remember reading on the penn site that first semester freshmen can only have 4.5 c.u. and all other semesters you can’t have more than 5. That’s five classes a semester, usually. I know some courses, like intensive language courses, are worth more than 1 c.u. so if you took on of them, you could only have 4 classes a semester. I’m assuming that people probably take 4 to 5 classes a semester but since you only need 32 c.u. to graduate, you could get away with taking 4 each semester or maybe 3 one semester and 5 the next.

Minors require less c.u. than majors. A major may require 12 while the minor only requires 6, so it’s easy to get a minor in something. You don’t have to minor in something that goes with your major. I probably won’t. But I think people suggest that you do. Or maybe it’s just that most people do. I’m not sure.