Looking for an fun and easy course to fill that final spot on your study card? We've combed through the Q Guide to find some of the more student-friendly courses offered at the College.
Drama 110: "Beginning Acting"
Don't let the 110 course designation fool you. Fifty-four percent of last spring’s students rated this course as "very easy," and 38 percent marked it down as "easy."
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 234: "Topics in Marine Biology"
Students last spring, on average, reported less than three hours of work each week; how could studying marine life be any easier? Fifteen percent of students last spring rated this course as "very easy" and an additional 46 percent rated it as "easy."
Visual and Environmental Studies 71: "Silent Cinema"
Students enrolled in the class during the spring of 2008, on average, offered a score of 2.36 out of 5 for difficulty and reported that it required less than three hours of work each week. Considering the subject matter, it might be a safe bet to assume that the course TFs might be more forgiving toward students that don't speak very often in section.
African and African American Studies 90r.m: "Somali"
Still need to fulfill that language requirement? Did you know that Somali is spoken by over 12 million people worldwide? This course was rated as "easy" by more than half of the students that enrolled in it last term.
United States in the World 32: "The World's Religions in Multicultural America: Case Studies in Religious Pluralism"
Study religious traditions in the United States with a workload averaging less than three hours per week. Among those enrolled in the course during the spring of 2009, 60 percent rated the course as "easy" and 60 percent stated that they would recommend it "with enthusiasm."
Visual and Environmental Studies 167: "Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036: Seminar"
In this class you'll have the opportunity to study "visual constituents of high adventure since the late Victorian era, emphasizing wandering woods, rogues, tomboys, women adventurers, faerie antecedents, halflings, crypto-cartography, Third-Path turning, martial arts, and post-1937 fantasy writing" along with an array of other subjects in a class rated by more than half of the students enrolled last spring as "easy." Slap this one on your course planner right now.
East Asian Studies 160: "Writing Asian Poetry"
With a 5.0