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Seats in Foundations Courses in Fall 2004
Looking at the seat counts for AHUM & SOCS courses before new
students starte registering on Thursday & Friday (Sept. 9-10)
might be a little disconcerting. That's because many of these courses
have been artificially capped, so we can better control enrollment
in them. This is to make the seat availability as fair as possible.
To a smaller exent, the same is being done with CREX, NATS & MATC
courses, but those courses are generally closer to their actual limits.
CORE classes have not been artificially capped--they really are that
full.
In general, with what looks to be a large incoming first-year class,
seats in Foundations areas look to be tight. That might be offset
somewhat by the larger number of sections of 4-credit UDCC courses.
Students enrolled in those courses will generally only need 3 other
classes, not 4. Here is a little more detailed look at the Foundations
areas:
- AHUM
- The number of students enrolled before Orientation is generally
1/3 of the total seats that will be available. In addition,
4 courses were added after the continuing students left for
the summer, and those are mostly empty (intentionally)
- ENGG
- There are 47 sections of ENGG 1111, Critcal Reading &
Writing. Most first-year students will take this class in Fall.
In general, students should be in this or another appropriate
English class unless there's a reason for them not
to be in it.
- Please note that there are special sections of ENGG 1111 for
Engineering students, students in the International Living &
Learning Community (LLC), the Environmental Awareness LLC, and
Social Justice LLC. Students in these programs should take these
particular sections; other students should not.
- If students are eligible to take higher level English courses,
they ought to be encouraged to take those instead of 1111, particularly
this term. ENGG 1511, Honors English, is requred for students
in the Honors Program, though it is offered other term. ENGG
1611, Advanced Standing Seminars, are appropriate for Honors
students who need more than one English course, or for any student
who earned a 3 or 4 on the AP English exam or 4 or 5 on the
IB English exam.
- MATC
- There are seats available in MATC 1101 & MATH 1951 (primarily
science students).
- MATC 1200 (most business students will need this at some point
in their career), is largely full, as is the Marsico Math Foundations,
on Voting (another course on Cryptology will be offered in Winter).
- NATS
- Most NATS courses have been full since last May.
- There will be seats opened up in NATS 1201, Environmental
Systems, and NATS 1216, Our Dynamic Earth.
- While these seats will be welcome, this will mean about 100
extra seats, so relatively few first-year students will be in
NATS.
- SOCS
- Similar to AHUM: most sections have current enrollment 1/3
to 1/2 of where it will be, and there are a few new sections.
- Please note that business majors can't take SOCS 1310; it's
the same course as ECON 1020, and they have to take the course
under that number.
- Languages
- If students have taken the language placement exam, and the
appropriate course is offered (the first quarter of beginning
or intermediate in most languages; in Spanish, there are also
two sections of the 2nd quarter of beginning Spanish), this
would be a great time to take that.
- Discussing language classes also presents a good opportunity
to talk about Study Abroad, as many programs that are not taught
in English require two years of language study prior to arrival.
- Besides Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese,
and Latin, students can also take Arabic once again.
- Courses found in the Modern Languages section of the Class
Schedule are University College courses, and are not appropriate
for the language requirement.
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