Your Intended Major(s)!

molliebatmit
Sun, 14 May 2006 20:00:38 +0000

Yup, you can take graduate classes. Sometimes your department will ask you to email the professor and officially ask permission to take the course, but professors are usually fine with it as long as they don’t think you’re getting in over your head.

Many courses are joint undergrad/grad courses. For example, one of the classes I’m taking right now is either 7.28 or 7.58, depending on whether you’re an undergrad or a grad student. In that case, you don’t get to choose whether to take the grad or undergrad version – you have to take the undergrad version. But that’s not a big deal since it’s the same class with the same professors and the same lecture time. Usually the graduate students have to do one more homework assignment.

All of the courses you take on grades as an undergrad figure into your undergraduate GPA.