Required classes for incoming freshman?

hazelorb
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:18:16 +0000

Oh and here was my first year schedule since morton asked for that:

(Fall 2006)

Hebr 101 - Hebrew - professor no longer here - A
RELG 265 - Bioethics - Childress - B- (interesting class but lost interest after the first midterm)
MATH 310 - Probability - professor no longer here - A-
MATH 354 - Survey of Algebra - professor on sabbatical - B+
then two 1-credit seminars:
LASE History of UVA - taught by different people each time - (pass) - really good class if they are offering it
INST Brown Backstage (course for first years living in Brown) (pass)

(Spring 2007)

MATH 552 - Algebra - grad student no longer here - C (hardest course ever)
ENWR 250 - Fiction Writing - grad student no longer here - A - easy class if you want to take a writing class but don’t have to do first writing requirement, though writing stories on a deadline was not as enjoyable for me as I would have liked
ASTR 121 - Intro astronomy - Ed Murphy - A- (fantastic professor)
HEBR 102 - Hebrew - professor no longer here - A
CCSS - Rural Poverty in Our Time - Grace Hale - B+ (class was interesting/depressing, professor I did not care for)

Like I said everyone takes a different first year schedule. I could jump right into my major because I had prereqs done, and I chose to start a new language rather than keeping going with my high school language because I had enough electives to do so. I placed out of all but a few of the area requirements, and placed out of my first writing requirement. I took my second writing requirement in my major 2nd year (even math has a second writing requirement class).

The area requirements I had to take:
RELG above
CCSS above
Non-western perspectives - I took archaeoastronomy which counts for science and non-western, cool class.
I also took a psychology class (child psych) which was somewhat interesting.
All the others were fulfilled with AP credits.