intro to ornithology

What are these bird courses I hear of? Are they like a two in one breadth requirement fulfiller? And if sooo, what’s an easy class to fulfill 4 and 5 considering I hate math, love history and don’t mind a little science?

Thanks.

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Yo.

Bird courses are basically super easy courses. They’re courses people take because they have a free slot in their timetable and want something that isn’t really going to bust their CGPA.

They certainly can fulfil two breadth categories, so long as the bird course in question is worth 1.0 FCE. So for example, if you take RLG100Y (which, according to some, is a bird course), you can satisfy 0.5 of credit requirement for both group 2 and group 3.

Just note that it’s a bit hard to identify something as a “bird course.” It all really depends on whether or not you can consider World Religions to be a bird course, right?

Bird courseiness is based on the content, your learning style, yada yada yada.

But if your interest in bird courses has to do with getting groups 4 and 5 out of the way since I’m going to assume you’re a humanities or social sciences student, here are a few suggestions from myself and another aska incarnation who I nagged for their picks!

Admittedly, a few of these aren’t quite “bird courses” so much as they are “more approachable sciencey ones” that can be conquered by the clueless humanities/social science student.

So:

AST101H The Sun and its Neighbours (Group 5)
aska: “Why did you find this course easy? What did you learn?”
Potentially high on oregano oil student: “I learned that we are all made of stardust.”
aska: Well okay then!
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AST201H Stars and Galaxies (Group 5)
aska: “And this course?”
PHOOOS: “Basically a regurgitation of The Sun of its Neighbours […] Also, in the lecture, you look at these beautiful slides of the stars and the skies! It’s totally like…Big Bang Theory comes to Con Hall! OMG QUOTE ME.”

ANT100Y Intro to Anthropology (Group 3 + Group 4)
aska: “Amazing course. I loved it. AMAAAAAZING.”
PHOOoS: “Linguistic and socio-cultural parts were so easy, but the bio was a biiiit tough.”

EEB202H Plants and Society (Group 4)
Nameless Student Who Seemed to Really Like the Course: “It was like the prof liked plants more than people!”
2011-12 Anti-Calender: General words of praise and an 81% retake rate.

And then some other things I’ve been told were great:

• PCL102H The Art of Drug Discovery (Group 4)
• EEB204H Diversity of Living Organisms (Group 4)
• EEB214H Evolution and Adaptation (Group 4)
• JUM205H Mathematical Personalities (Group 5)
• CSB202H Further Exploration in Biotechnology (Group 4)
• CHM101H The Chemistry and Biology of Organic Molecules: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Group 5)

Enjoy!

aska