General Info on Your Class Load

Class Load

You will be planning a full-time schedule that translates into 4 or 5 classes.

The amount of units you take depends on many things:

Commuting? or living on campus?
Working? or just taking classes?
Other kinds of involvement - clubs, fraternies and sororities
Required courses based on placement tests (ELM and/or EPT)




Commuting? or living on campus?

Even when you live in the City, it may take you an hour or more each way to wait for and take MUNI. You need to plan for that in your schedule. If you are commuting by car, we recommend an early start on your day - our parking lots can fill up. And if you are coming from the East, North Bays or the Peninsula, plan in your schedule for the commute. If you can't handle the commute, we highly recommend BART - at least you don't have to drive and you can even read or study on the train. There is a free SFSU shuttle which picks you up at the Daly City BART station, just a short distance to SFSU.

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Working? or just taking classes?

If you can at all help it, we don't recommend that you work your first semester. There are a lot of transitions that you will be facing - and the responsibility of a job frequently affects new students very negatively. Remember that if you are working:

  1. You are a student first!
  2. Try to work less than 20 hours a week.
  3. If you do work, do NOT take more than 12 units. Need to work? Talk to Financial Aid - maybe you can work on campus and use workstudy funds.
  4. Even if you do not have financial aid, try to work on campus.
  5. Your faculty will not accept work as an excuse for incomplete assignments or missed classes.
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Other kinds of involvement - clubs, fraternies and sororities

We highly recommend you become involved in the campus life - take time to meet new folks through clubs and organizations, campus government, fraternities and sororities, as well as campus events such as free film screenings, plays, concerts, etc. While these are fun and worthwhile, remember you are a student first. Budget your time so that you can be good in school and extra-curricularly.

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Required courses based on placement tests (ELM and/or EPT)

If you have to take Placement Tests, and you score either

  1. 146 or below on EPT or
  2. 48 or below on ELM,

then you must take certain MATH or English course in Spring. We will go into that next, but bear this rule in mind.

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