<p>Does anyone know if Plan II students can get credit for Modes of Reasoning by taking FRI Research Methods? Research Methods sounds very similar to David Laude’s Plan II course, Originality in Arts and Sciences.</p>
<p>IDK because Laude isn’t offering the Plan II course this year from what I’ve heard.</p>
<p>Weinberg for Modes of Reasoning is an interesting class. He’s an awesomely intelligent man (duh he’s a Nobel laureate) and knows his onions, but he’s not a particularly engaging lecturer.</p>
<p>In the Plan II orientation catalog, there is a Modes of Reasoning course taught by Laude and Scala. Interestingly enough, according the UT registration system, Laude is also teaching a Dean’s scholars’ Research Methods class at the same time. I’m still trying to figure out how that’s going to work. Maybe the Plan II class is really taught by Scala, and Laude is just supervising? Or could the Plan II class and DS class be combined?</p>
<p>I just noticed in the Plan II catalog it states that Dean’s scholars should register for the class under the DS research methods course number. I didn’t realize that some Plan II students were Dean Scholars, until now.</p>
<p>In case anyone else needs to know, NSC 301c, which is the course number for Research Methods for both Dean’s scholars and FRI, is an approved course option for Logic/ Modes of Reasoning for Plan II. The Plan II materials only list it as a Dean’s Scholars course, but since the course number is the same, I am assuming that the same procedure will be followed.</p>