If you're looking for an easy class to round out your course load, search no further.

1. Drama 110: "Beginning Acting"

Looking for something a little different to put on your schedule? "Beginning Acting" has less than three hours of work per week and a high Q-score of 4.75. Forty-five percent of participants found the class to be "very easy." Unfortunately, you must audition for the class, so the hardest part may be just getting in.

2. Astronomy 301hf: "Journal Club"

"Journal Club" was ranked "very easy" or "easy" by 73 percent of participants, and of the 15 students who filled out the Q Guide, only one student reported that the workload was over three hours a week. You can't go wrong with a class that exclaims, "This will be fun!" on its syllabus.

3. Anthropology 1165: "Digging the Glyphs: Adventures in Decipherment" [2013]

Only one of the 185 people who evaluated this course found it to be difficult last year.  Requiring just over three hours of work per week, "Digging the Glyphs" is an easy way to fulfill the Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding Gen Ed while learning how to decipher extinct languages.

4. Science of Living Systems 25: "Trees, Forests, and Global Change"

This small class offers a stress-free way to fulfill the Science of Living Systems requirement. Last year, less than 10 people took this Gen Ed, and they all found it to be "easy" or "very easy." As a bonus, the class includes fun laboratory assignments like campus tree tours and fieldtrips to the Glass Flower Museum and the Harvard Forest.

5. United States in the World 30: "Tangible Things: Harvard Collections in World History" [2013]

"Mostly we want you to look," the syllabus for "Tangible Things" says, and the class gives you an opportunity to explore Harvard's libraries and archives for credit. Last year, two-thirds of the class found the course "easy" or "very easy."

6. Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 11: "Making Sense: Language, Logic, and Communication" [2013]

For students who like words better than numbers, this class provides a pain-free way to fulfill the Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning Gen Ed, as it examines language as an algorithm. Even better, the course has a lower workload rating than other Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning classes.

7. History of Science 138: "Sex, Gender, and Evolution"