PLAN YOUR UBC SCIENCE COURSES WITH ME | maddy a

PLAN YOUR UBC SCIENCE COURSES WITH ME
Happy Saturday!
Many of you asked if I could film a video about planning your courses. It's confusing, not well explained, and it can be a rather complicated process sometimes. Sooooooo, I finally got around to filming a video to 1) show you where you can find almost everything you need to know for your degree, 2) what the required courses are for the majors offered by UBC, and 3) how to plan your schedule! You're going to learn to love the academic calendar my friends... learn to love it!! In part, the most challenging part of all this is navigating UBC's massive website and knowing where to find information. If you can figure that out you are set. I share some tips with you guys towards the end about course planning and how to structure your schedule so stay tuned!
If you don't know, you can access your course registration/schedule page through your SSC. When you login, click the blue "Course Schedule" button and it will take you directly where you need to go.
Here are the links to the academic calendar for the BSc and the Specialization page.
Academic Calendar: www.calendar.ubc.ca/vancouver/...
Second Year Specialization Requirements: science.ubc.ca/students/degre...
If you have any questions at all, I am here to do my best and help you guys out! I love answering questions, and you guys give me the opportunity to learn more about the world of UBC... so its a win win situation haha! Feel free to email me at: [e-mail]

[@kerenchen1800]

So glad I found your videos! I got into Sciences this year and watching your videos have been really informative, it’s like having someone who’s one step ahead of me as guidance😊

[@JonathanElmer]

if you're Canadian & a registered student at a Canadian college/uni there's a sweet summer exchange the government does called J'Explore, usually goes 5 weeks it gets you 6 credits towards arts (doesnt affect your GPA; just shows up on your transcript as FREN credits) and there's all these universities back east where you stay in a dorm/with a local family; it's a free bursary and you only have to pay for your plane ticket there plus Québec has really epic outdoor concerts/festivals all summer long; probably all cancelled this year though :(

[@kpoptimes5826]

This video is so so helpful, I’m going to be watching it over and making sure I’m doing everything right 😂 thank you so much!!!

[@Tipstutorials1]

I have been stressing about course selections and this video has been SO helpful!! Thank you Maddy :))

[@valeriiapelevina3921]

Thank you so much for the video! Very useful information! I'm like 3 days away from registering for my courses and I don't know what I would do without your video.

[@Dhillon.Adventures]

HOLY! I needed this... thank you so much!

[@leetaeyong7454]

Thank you for making this video. It was very helpful!

[@abdulqadirabuharrus8709]

Maddy, you're a Hero!

[@user-ek2ml2pc4o]

Thank you for this useful information

[@mngady]

this was extremely helpful! thank you :)

[@boredbaddie]

Oh my god I needed this

[@VCoolKid]

This video is great, Thanks a lot.

[@heliamoghaddam138]

I'm going into first year and let me just say THANK YOU! This is so informative

[@nawalabdiwahab9263]

Me too which campus are you going to and what’s your course

[@sayanaimash1280]

U are the best!

[@adarshchhokar3818]

Wow 👌👏👏👏

[@ajiteshsingh6748]

doing gods work

[@Atron-nf9mc]

Bless your soul

[@emmawoodtke2365]

So glad I found your channel, your videos have been so helpful! Do you know anyone that was in the coordinated science program? I'm considering it but couldn't find much information on the workshops or any videos about it on youtube. Thanks! :)

[@MaddyA]

Ahh I am so glad to hear you find them helpful! I have a friend who did it and she really enjoyed it for the most part. Her only complaint was that the weekly cohort based tutorials were kind of useless. She said she would have rather had that time to study what she needed to/wanted to rather than be instructed to complete something irrelevant. Overall though, she really liked having classes with the same people because it made it a little easier to make friends!

[@Stephanie-ki5ms]

Thanks for this video!! I’m wondering do I have to take all the first year requirement courses during my first year? Like communication requirement and those 2 BIOL and 2 CHEM courses

[@MaddyA]

Nope! You don’t have to take all of them, but you will find, especially with Bio and Chem courses that you need all your first year courses for almost all of the second year ones. As long as you complete the communication requirement before your third year then you’re fine!

[@deepakjotsingh6163]

Informative video !!! Please make a video of on campus jobs and upper year scholarships for international students .

[@MaddyA]

Thank you! I don’t have enough information about upper year scholarships or on campus jobs for international students to make a informative video yet. Please see the links I left for you in your other comment - they might help you!

[@ananyamahapatra3128]

This simultaneously terrified me and relaxed me haha. Thank you for giving us a better idea of how to go about planning courses and what to keep in mind while doing so! I was wondering - how are lab classes functioning during the pandemic? Are there virtual lab classes going on right now?

[@ananyamahapatra3128]

Also, do we get to choose which professor's classes we will be taking? (Assuming there are multiple professors for each course)

[@MaddyA]

@@ananyamahapatra3128 I am not sure if they will change anything for next year, but when my chemistry lab switched online, they provided you with all the information you would have collected in the lab and you basically just wrote the report. There are no virtual labs running over the summer term that I am aware of. When you do course selection, you can pick a class based off of the prof, but they only teach specific sections, so you don't have the flexibility to say to pick prof A and 12:00 if prof A only teaches at 9:00 Hope that helps!

[@JonathanElmer]

@@ananyamahapatra3128 if you come across a prof you like who's really good but their section is full, you can still slip in and sit in on the lectures, take extra notes; but you still have to go to your own section for writing midterms (which can be different, profs might be going through chapters differently, covering content out of order) but I found that helpful for getting through calculus personally

[@ananyamahapatra3128]

@@MaddyA Yes, it does, thank you! Do you personally find lab difficult/ineffective since you're not actually observing the experiments and collecting data yourself?

[@ananyamahapatra3128]

@@JonathanElmer That does seem like a good idea, I'll definitely keep it in mind. Thank you!!

[@laraskyler3639]

Hey! Thank you so much for the video. Do you know how grad students plan their schedules?

[@MaddyA]

Hi! Thank you! Unfortunately I do not... I would think it would be somewhat similar but I know the grad programs are a little more condensed.

[@winniewen7917]

Lmao. Going into second year and course planning/specialization is still stressing me out. Also, WE STAN JARED STANG!

[@abdulqadirabuharrus8709]

Hey guys, so I just finished making my 1st draft for my timetable, my registration is on the 30th. I'm at 29 credits between both terms and would like to make 30, so I thought about adding a second communication req, I've already added engl110, what can y'all tell me about Scie113 and is it worth it? Thanks

[@AC-pf3nh]

Hey Maddy! Thank you so much for all this information. It's definitely helped me a lot. I have a question: If i've got AP credits that cover certain first year courses, would I then be able to take other courses, for example second year courses, in place of them?

[@MaddyA]

Hey! Happy to have helped! Some second year courses have requirements to take them - ie. must have 2nd year standing or completion of a certain pre-requisite. Be sure to check those out! If you meet the requirements then yes, you most likely can take it.

[@AC-pf3nh]

@@MaddyA Understood! Thanks for replying :)

[@minjoolee2231]

Hello! I am one of your subscriber and have been watching your video for a while now. I'm excited to be enrolled in UBC in FNH this fall, and you were my inspiration! I have some (its actually a lot) questions in course programming for my first year and just course programming generally. Could you help me?

[@MaddyA]

Hi Minjoo! Thanks for supporting my channel! That is so exciting I can’t wait for you to join us! Feel free to send me an email with all your questions 😊 I would be happy to try and answer them for you!

[@emmawoodtke2365]

Hey Maddy, thank you so much for this video it's so informative! I'm trying to make a worklist but when I added chemistry and bio it told me I didn't have the pre requisites even though I have biology 12 and chemistry 12. Should I contact an advisor?

[@MaddyA]

Hi! I’m glad you found it helpful! It could be that you haven’t selected, for example, the pre-req for CHEM 123 which is CHEM 121... maybe? If you have the university level pre-req I would contact an advisor. A few people I’ve talked to have had these issues.

[@ethankim1131]

Hello! Thank you for really helpful video! I just have a question Is it challenging to take 5 courses per term in my first year? (Im in Faculty of Arts) And how was your experience on your studies?

[@MaddyA]

Hi! I am glad to hear you enjoyed it :) I only took 4 and 4 courses in my first and second term.It was challenging for many different reasons. A lot of students start with 4 courses and then take 5 - they build up to it. I have a few friends in Arts and one of them did 4 and 4, and the other did 5 and 4. They found it to be fairly manageable. My friend who started with 5 felt overwhelmed in her first term so she went down to 4, but many people find 5 in term two to be manageable!

[@05forn]

What did you use to record your screen like that? Nice video by the way

[@MaddyA]

Thanks! It was on my Mac... it wasn’t through an app or anything it was directly on my computer. It showed up in the touch bar on my keyboard haha very con isn’t!

[@rickyzhu3081]

Hey, I'm planning on majoring in Comp Sci and I was wondering what physics course to take? Is PHYS 131 (more life sciences orientated) better or PHYS 117 (more physical science orientated) since Comp Sci falls under neither of those categories? Thanks!

[@MaddyA]

Hey Ricky! I am honestly not too sure it makes much of a difference. As long as you are meeting the requirements you need it doesn't matter!

[@nimritn369]

Hi! Do all first year students have to take some form of physics? And is every course that is listed under first year for a specific specialization mandatory?

[@MaddyA]

Hi! Following the Academic Calendar is the best guide to know if Physics is required. All courses listed in the Academic Calendar across all years (first through fourth) are mandatory.

[@AriaSilvermist1301]

Heyy do you know when prospective 1st years are allowed to pick courses? And this is so helpful btw when I decided to look at classes I was so confused because theres sm to choose from

[@MaddyA]

Hi! I am not too sure when incoming first year students get to pick courses. I remember it being sometime mid summer but I couldn't tell you exactly when. Glad to hear this helped!

[@michellegitaari2535]

Hi! I sat in on the parent webinar recently and they said they pushed course selection for first years to the end of June

[@AH-xl2dp]

Hi, quick question. Dont we need 6 communication requirements for the first year according to the biochem requirement? Whereas youve taken only 1 that is english?

[@MaddyA]

Hi! Depends what is outlined in the academic calendar! If 6 credits are required then you must complete all 6 credits BUT that doesn't have to happen all in your first year. You can complete both communication courses in your first year or you can complete one in your first year and one later on. They usually encourage you to get it done asap because communication classes become difficult to get into later on, but that being said, you have some flexibility!

[@ballerparody6339]

Hi, I just had a question regarding the timing of the schedule. So if you have one class 9-10 and then a different class from 10-11. How would that work ? Wouldn't you get late for the 10-11 class since walking from one class to another will take time.

[@MaddyA]

Hi! Great question! For any class that is 1 hour long ie. 9-10, it is actually only 50 minutes of instructional time. 10 minutes is left at the end of the class to give you time to get to your class that starts at 10. For example 9-9:50 you are learning, 9:50-10 you are making a run for your next class, and at 10 you start your next class! Same goes for 90 minute classes - 80 minutes of instruction and 10 minutes to get to your next class! Hope that helps!

[@ballerparody6339]

@@MaddyA ohh thank you so much. One more question. Is there a certain arts requirement for the people going to sciences. Like do the people going into the Faculty of science need a certain amount of credits from art courses ? Once again, thank you so much 😊

[@MaddyA]

@@ballerparody6339 You would have to check the academic calendar for the faculty of science. I am not too sure.

[@jonathanmathew]

Is it the same for applied science? Can you create your own custom timetable or do you have to use the standard ones?

[@bisho9243]

lol i have the exact same question. i dont think first year sciences can create their own timetable they have to use the standard ones. or atleast that is what ive read on different ubc sites. let me know if you find a definitive answer.

[@MaddyA]

Hi! Applied science usually requires a standard timetable. You don't really get the flexibility to make your own schedule.

[@anohitadeb3629]

hi, your videos are really helpful! I was wondering if this course selection was for from first year or second year. please let me know thank you :)

[@MaddyA]

Hi! This for first year!

[@anohitadeb3629]

@@MaddyA Thank you! Also, does UBC let you do a double major? For example, if someone wanted to do a double major in Behavioral Neuroscience and Physiological Sciences, would they be able to?

[@MaddyA]

@@anohitadeb3629 They do allow double majors, but I believe there are some restrictions. I might be getting this confused with some of the combined majors listed here: science.ubc.ca/students/degree/apply/req I think it would depend on how the credits play out, but if that degree isn't readily available, you could always look into integrated science!

[@alexfoxcroft8926]

Who was your physics teacher may I ask, and what physics class was it? Great video!

[@MaddyA]

Thank you! I had Dr. Jared Stang - phenomenal prof! If I can come out his class both terms with A’s, and I still don’t understand physics, he’s good haha. I think he usually teaches the 8am section but you’d have to check.

[@manasveersinghsethi7211]

Hi Maddy, firstly thanks for such a great video it helped me immensely. Secondly, i am planning to do my majors in Computer Science so will CPSC courses fulfill some credits out of 72 Science credits requirements? Btw I'll be joining UBC Vancouver in 2021W session

[@MaddyA]

Hi! Yes - taking comp sci courses will help fulfill your breadth requirement as well as some of the credits required for the major. Good luck this fall!

[@manasveersinghsethi7211]

@@MaddyA Thanks 😊

[@nickzhen3584]

Hello Maddy, I am a transfer student (faculty of science, year level 2) in September 2020. I want to declare cs specialization. I wonder to know if there any differences between the transfer students and the students who studied from first year in UBC when faculty of cs admit students? In other words, will faculty of cs admit the student who studied from first year in UBC more early than transfer students if their grades are same?

[@MaddyA]

Hi! I am honestly not to sure. Sometimes certain specializations save a certain number of seats for students coming in but I don’t know how many or if CS does that. UBC should be sending out emails regarding specialization declaration soon as it is happening mid June. I would assume because you’re a UBC now that you declare in that same period, which would then give you the same chance as anyone else!

[@ishampreet2822]

Hi maddy I had questions about what a science student learns and what kind of classes do they attend in first year.

[@MaddyA]

Courses are pretty standard for first year science students - they take physics, biology, calculus, chemistry, english, and then some sort of elective. After you first year, you declare your major and then more specifically study something of your choice!

[@merca2672]

Hey What if you are going into first year engineering but you wanna also try to get into CS in second year? I dont know what process I need to go thru. I know that I gotta drop the courses on my engineering STT and take the prerequisites. But how should i plan it out

[@MaddyA]

To my knowledge, CS is only an option within the faculty of science and you can't "major" in it if you are pursuing a BASc. As a first year eng student, you have to take a STT and electives aren't really an option. I would directly reach out to their advising services because I am not totally sure how to help you out here. Sorry :(

[@nickkerr191]

I'm trying to do the exact same. talk to both the UBC science academic advising and UBC engineering advising. Ask about, pre requisites, course planning, summer options, timetables.

[@RajrameetSingh]

What if I did not do Calculus in grade 12. Do I have to do math 184 to be able to do math 100,102etc.

[@MaddyA]

From what I understand, MATH 184 is equivalent to MATH 104. MATH 184 is strictly for students that did not take calculus in high school - I don't think it acts as a pre-requisite for MATH 104 but I would double check!

[@voltzgaming1543]

Hi Maddy, I was wondering since I graduate in 21, I'm from Ontario and I'm not sure how different high school is in the two provinces but are their certain high school requirements to do a major in forensic science?

[@MaddyA]

Hi! This webpage will tell you the general requirements for a given faculty based on your province. Degree/major specific requirements can be found on UBC's academic calendar for your specific faculty! i hope that helps clear things up?

[@voltzgaming1543]

I guess I should've been more specific 😅 but what I meant was is there a certain grade that you need to get in and like UofT do you have to maintain a certain gpa to stay in the program? I've been eyeing the requirements for UBC for a while but it was just a bit vague so I just wanted to know from someone who goes there. But thank you I appreciate the help 😁

[@MaddyA]

@@voltzgaming1543 Oh I see! For most programs there is a minimum GPA required to stay in it and it does vary a bit. But generally speaking, unless it is really competitive, I want to say it hovers around a 65/70%. Sometimes though, certain upper year courses require a minimum grade in a pre-req so that is something to be mindful of. Does that clear things up a bit?

[@voltzgaming1543]

@@MaddyA it sure does thank you

[@jenncruz6203]

Hi Maddy, does UBC credits summer courses? say I take Biology 12 in summer…

[@MaddyA]

This you would need to double check with the advising team of the faculty you intend to apply to. To my knowledge, all credits successfully completed in high school are usually accepted.

[@ballerparody6339]

Omg they don't offer physics 101 anymore. Now I have to take physics 107 in the first term and move my English to term 2.

[@MaddyA]

The physics department changed all the course codes. They still offer physics 101... it's just not called physics 101.

[@jennifernguyen865]

Did you take calc in highschool?

[@MaddyA]

Yes I did... very helpful to have prior knowledge before trying to take it in university!

[@aaryand1468]

these are worklist courses so how to register for them?

[@MaddyA]

Yes these are courses in your worklist. When your registration period opens, you can go to your worklist and click the register button, it will register you in those specific courses. Sometimes, if a course is full or the remaining seats are restricted, then you have to individually register for them.

[@aaryand1468]

@@MaddyA thank you so much! pls don't stop making videos like these :)

[@kiernanrose3481]

is SCIE 001 science one?

[@MaddyA]

Yes!

[@veerpalsohal9790]

I'm non-medical Student .i want to know which courses good for me in ubc

[@MaddyA]

Non-medical is basically everyone who isn't in med school... what faculty are you planning to join? Depending on which faculty you are in, the courses you would take would be different :)

[@veerpalsohal9790]

@@MaddyA thanks for reply mam

[@kashishgupta5357]

Hii, since there are a lot of people here going to UBC this fall... I was wondering if someone wants to be friends... Haha, it would be nice to know someone beforehand... :) Also thanks for the video, I really need this info. 😊😊😊

[@moontahabintemasood4561]

What's your faculty? I'm going to UBC this fall too

[@dorothyger162]

Hey I’m really thankful for this video! It tells me so much. Also can I make friends here I want to have friends taking the same course with me ;-;

[@MaddyA]

Glad it helped you out! Feel free to chat with people on here!

[@moontahabintemasood4561]

Hiii I'm enrolled for this fall semester. Wby?

[@aaryand1468]

is there any way to contact you personally?

[@MaddyA]

Yup! by my email: [e-mail]

[@jasmeetsingh2531]

what are you trying to become?

[@MaddyA]

that's a great question! I am still trying to figure that out 😊

[@sextond]

This is really good stuff, but you should really block your last name on the courses portion of the video. Just to prevent creeps, I tell my daughter to do this in any videos.

[@MaddyA]

Glad you enjoyed it - funny enough I thought I did before posting this! I usually do but thanks for the reminder.