Popularity of Course 12

jessiehl
Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:20:21 +0000

You do realize that there’s another thread going on about this, right?

It’s a pretty specialized area (or set of areas), so no, it’s not a terribly popular major. It has a rep of being a very friendly, tight-knit, and humane department, where students get decent individual attention even if they’re not stars (and thus gets some defectors from course 8, which does not have a rep for being any of these things). I have heard people complain that some of the required classes are not offered often enough, but that is the only serious complaint I have heard.

I personally do not know any 12/1E double majors. It seems like a reasonable pairing, though. Most doubles are doable if you make steady progress and have sufficient work ethic and talent in the relevant fields. Neither major is a monstrously inflexible major with a million requirements.