The Computing for Non-Science Majors class is one of those courses that’s always full, or almost full and people are trying to add.

Three sections of CS151 are offered this semester, and two of those are exceeding capacity.

The class only allots 24 spaces, and 25 students are enrolled in two of the three sections.

So it’s obviously a class a lot of students take.

Maybe they take it because it’s easy.

Maybe they take it because they heard it was fun.

Or maybe they are taking it because it fulfills one of their natural sciences general education requirements.

Any way you look at it, it’s a class many students take for various reasons.

But next fall, when the class doesn’t count toward a general education credit in the natural science section, students will have to find other classes to take instead.

So for the underclassmen who waited to take this class until later on, or for the upperclassmen that knew they would need one easy class in that section and were waiting until their junior or senior year, sorry.

And to the student that couldn’t get into the class because it was such a popular choice, you’re stuck taking other natural science classes like chemistry or biology.

Students will have the option of switching to a different course catalog so they can take advantage of the possible six-hour natural sciences requirement instead of the nine hours required with this year’s catalog.

But when you switch to a new catalog, you have to switch over all of your courses. You don’t just get to pick and choose.

If you do switch, you might get lucky. However, getting rid of this class as a gen ed just isn’t a good idea.

Many students take it each semester, and to not let it count toward a credit in that section is just forcing students to do more work in rearranging their schedules.