<p>You can do a number of things. If you live in or near the area, you can go to the college bookstore and look the books up yourself. Textbooks usually start coming in the middle of September (about 15th or 16th); you can call the bookstore for a definite date of when they’re expected to arrive. You can also reserve your textbooks online through the UCD bookstore website: <a href=“https://bookstore.ucdavis.edu/textbooks/reservations/[/url]”>https://bookstore.ucdavis.edu/textbooks/reservations/</a>
As someone else suggested, you can e-mail the professor of the class (if you don’t know who your professor is, you can check under the “My Classes” tab in My UC Davis, and then look up his or her e-mail address through the main UCD website); keep in mind however, a lot of professors are gone for the summer, some are bad at replying to their e-mails in general, and a few may be annoyed at being bothered. Finally, you can wait until classes start; your textbooks needed will be listed on each class’s syllabus, HOWEVER, I do not recommend this, as the bookstore will be packed the first couple of weeks of school. </p>
<p>For most classes you will also be expected to buy a course reader (all the handouts for the class compiled into one booklet), and those aren’t sold in the campus bookstores. Most professors use Navin’s Copy Shop, which is a little over a block away from campus on 3rd Street (across from the Social Science building (the one that looks like the Death Star)). Readers are not cheap; I’ve had some cost upwards of $50, so plan accordingly. Good luck! :-)</p>