If you are a transfer student beginning your junior year , You may have some lower division department requirements that your advisor can point out, like POLS 203 or 281. See Writing Proficiency Examination and English 102 above. The proseminars , POLS 491-496, are taken in senior year, among the last courses you take at the University. If you are on probation or close to being put on probation, check with the Graduate Advisor about your program every quarter. Advice concerning the quarter system.
Quarters move very quickly, much more quickly than semesters.
In a semester, one often gets to relax in the middle of the semester after midterms. The same is not true of quarters. CSLA's quarters are 10 weeks long, with a week of exams, and then some time off. After Winter and Spring quarters, the time off is only one week. Save your paperwork.