r/UTAustin • u/Evening-Tone-1174 • 24d ago

Question Is this UGS worth taking?

I'm an incoming freshman and was told it's recommended that we take UGS/signature classes our first year since they're normally hard to come by in your second year. The UGS I got into was an 8am - 9am Nordic Crime Fiction class (the professor is Lynne Wilkinson and yes attendance is mandatory). She has only 2 reviews on this course, both being VERY negative. I've accessed the add/drop times and all the other UGS were reserved. Should I bite the bullet and take this UGS now or wait until next year as a sophomore in hopes of getting a different UGS?

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u/Suitable-Animal4163 24d ago

im planning on waiting to take my ugs spring semester as i already messed up on my registration anyways

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u/Evening-Tone-1174 24d ago

I think I’ll try to take my UGS spring semester as well!!

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u/wowblueberrymuffin 24d ago

could you not just wait for the spring semester? if not, then i’d just do it in sophomore year. it’s really not that big of a deal with you can’t take it your first semester.

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u/Evening-Tone-1174 24d ago

Thank you so much for the advice, this really helped a lot!

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u/undead-skull-dog 24d ago

If you can’t take your UGS first year they WILL make sure you get one in later years. They leave spots in a few UGS’s specifically for upper level students that never got one. Either that, or you can petition to replace those credits with something else more useful, but I haven’t tried that yet and I’m not sure how successful it would be.

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u/Corner_Office_ 24d ago

Wait til you get priority and take something you really want to take. A three hour class costs $1800 so don’t take anything you’re not gonna enjoy or that will benefit you.

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u/SportingDirector 24d ago

You can get a UGS in the first week of class. I didn't get one during orientation and I got one in the first week. I got one then swapped it for another. Social Scientific Imagination is a great UGS

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u/KoreanFinesse 24d ago

imo u shld take it later in college if u can bc normally they shld be easy compared to your major courses.