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In college what are general classes?

Does it matter what order in which I take college classes?

  • I'm a freshman at a university this year and I hope to pursue a major in Computer Science. A BS in Computer Science requires a lot of math, pysics, and computer programming prerequisite classes (along with general requirements, like general knowledge electives) at my university. But I'm taking a Geography class and an English class my first quarter, and I'm worried that I should be taking more math, physics, and computer programming classes instead. Is it okay that I'm taking English and a Geography class this quarter, and hold off on the math/physics/computer programming classes until later? I mean, my current classes are counting toward my general education requirement to graduate. So I should be fine, right? There's no particular order of taking classes to get a Computer Science degree? Could I just take math/physics/computer programming classes later into my Freshman and Sophomore years? If it helps any, I already have 5 college credits of math because I scored a 4/5 on the Calculus AP Exam in high school. I also took a course in Computer Programming back in my senior year, so I understand programming concepts really well (input/output, variables, strings, control flow, funtions, arrays, file reading/writing, and a little about objects). Thanks for any help in advance!

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    Talk to your advisor about this. It can make a huge difference if you take classes in the wrong order. At my last school, I had some students who tried to put off their math, and because the math was a prerequisite for another class, which was a prerequisite for another class, and so on for about 6 semesters, if they didn't start within a semester of starting their degree, they would not be able to graduate on time.

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You can but you'll have to take your gen ed classes later in your school career along with very high level Math and Computer courses. I prefer to get gen eds out of the way so you can focus on classes you actually care about.

Definitely talk to people at your school who are further along in their computer science major for any advice and also talk to your advisor. With some classes, of course there is a particular order because some classes have prerequisites but you probably know that. Doesn't your department have information about suggested courses? Start being familiar with major requirements and what those courses entail. Plan ahead so you graduate when you want to. I had AP credits but in some cases, it would have been better had I retaken those classes in college because I was at a disadvantage compared with students who didn't use AP to get out of lower level classes. Good planning is pretty crucial but the best information for you will be people who go to your school.

You need to look at what prerequisites are required for higher level courses. You probably need your intro to math, physics, etc before you can take 200, 300, 400 etc level classes, which you need for your degree. Some classes are meant to be taken in a specific sequence. Ask your advisor.

It would be best to talk to your counselor about the best times to take your major courses. However, with science/engineering types of majors, including Computer Science, you need to start getting lower division science prerequisites out of the way as soon as possible. You probably need at least two years of math, if not more, which themselves are going to be prerequisites for later comp. sci classes, so you should seriously think about getting started at least on your math. With humanities majors, like English, prerequisites aren't so important, so they can get their GE courses done first before focusing on the major. But for science majors, prerequisites are very important, and GE classes can be squeezed in here and there before graduation.

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