?Hey,I’m a newly admitted life science student and I would like to? eventually be accepted to a professional faculty, which unfortunately? means I need a minimum GPA of 3.7. With the ridiculous demands of my?science courses, I was hoping to find an easy humanity and an easy? social science where I can slack off (comparatively) yet still achieve?a high mark.
I do NOT want to write essays. Long calculations don’t faze me but I? find long writing simply cumbersome. Although I realize this is hard? to avoid in university, I’ll be happy in a course as long as there is? minimal extensive writing.
I was looking at some of the first-year social science seminars and? “You Say You Want an Evolution” actually sounds rather interesting.? However, do you happen to know what kind of work our mark would be? based on? Will it be a good choice for what I want?
In terms of my humanity, French has always been a strength of mine,? but so far, I haven’t been hearing good things about the French? courses offered at UofT. Is it possible to get a high mark in the? language? French has never been difficult for me, but to be completely? honest, my French teacher for grade 12 was a total hackjob and I’m not? sure whether I will continue to get the same marks come September.
Help? My registrar was useless.
Thanks so much,
(You deserve such massive cred)
Monica?
?Hey, Monica.?
Thanks.? I do deserve Massive cred.? That being said, I would take anything you could in a seminar.? They?re small, easy, and made for you to get one of your credit requirements in the least stressful way possible.? I can?t guarantee no essays (I’m sure if there were any, though, they’d be terribly short), but I know a lot of the grade is based?on attendance and participation.? As for languages, and every askastudent to date has said something along these lines: they?re a bitch.? They?re the equivalent to two courses and you have to be EXTREMELY dedicated, and to me it sounds like you want to actually have a life at university.? If you really want it, maybe take it in the summer.? But if you want a really good grade to boost your average, the seminar is the way to go.?Break a leg!
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cookie
i took 1st year french and it was really easy…i’ve always been really bad at french but this course was a piece of cake…go for it!…if you want to take an easy course try 1st year sociology, 1st year astronomy, antro…that kinda stuff…NOT psychology though..i’ve met way too many ppl who think 1st year psyc is difficult
Anonymous
first yr soc isnt as easy as you may think……its all multiple choice based though which u probably like since u said u hate essays
d123
I’m sorry I don’t have an answer to your question but i’m also looking for the SAME THIng and i’m also in life sci and I need an EASY course.?
I like what they said about the Seminar but I don’t really understand what that is..? If anyone can let me know how to enrol in one and if it willl give me a full credit, pleasee help me out. I think I’m going to die in uni and its only been 1 dayy/ haha~ :[
Jon
The easiest 1st year course I took was Soc100 w/ calaguori. Got an 83 without going to half the class (a feat which I was never able to duplicate in other courses).
The Sun and Its Neighbors and the other 1st year half course humanities course in astronomy as infamous for being easy. I would check out anitcalendars and rateyourprofessor as they give you ratings of how easy a professor is. It isnt so much the course that determines how easy it is to get an +A but the professor.
Also, I recommend shopping around the first week of classes to a number of courses and try to find one whose workload and format fit your areas of expertise. I like to avoid presentations, and look for courses where there’s not much reading, and a few assignments worth a lot. Yes it sounds lazy as hell when I say this, but I have a 3.68 GPA and I wouldn’t have it if I didn’t carefully select my courses and professors.