OT: Easiest class at U-M?

Did no one take Ojibwa senior year???

I took a drawing class for non-artists my senior year. The class was easy enough that I would have still had an A even skipping the final exam (an in-class drawing). And I am a terrible artist. I actually picked it because a focus of the class was drawing nude models. I did not think of the prospect of having to draw dongs so that class was a surprise. Also 95% of the class was girls. So like a women's studies class in ratio but you don't have to talk about feminism.
I also took a film class. Super easy as long as you go to all of the lectures because he announces the movies you write on during the lecture. I wrote my final paper on the wrong movie (paper worth half the grade) and still got an A.

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History of WWII. Interesting and we spent one night a week watching WWII movies. That was a long time ago and I doubt it is still taught.

I also took a class on Murder Literature and read In Cold Blood, an Agatha Christie novel, Helter Skelter, Crime and Punishment, etc. Pretty much reading stuff I would have read anyway. Not easy but fun as hell.

On the opposite end? Accounting classes will bore you and be relatively hard.

Any American culture class, as well.

Poor title. Should be titled, "what are the Katzenmoyer classes at UM". Graduated in '96, LSA. I took some English 200 level class about writing resumes for a credit. Too easy. Planets and moons with van Keken was easy and captivating. Same with plate tectonics with van der voo.

My race and ethnicity requirement, which was literally called "Race and Ethnicity", if I remember correctly. Soc 300 something? First year teacher, graded on a very generous curve. We had a multiple choice exam, 25 questions, 10 of which were true-false, where 7/25 (below chance!) was good enough for a B.

Professor Reichenbach or Rikenbach. I still remember of the 4 characteristics of weapons, accuracy, rapidity of fire, mobility, the most important was -range. Not unlike shooting guards (well maybe accuracy in that case).

Has to be the intro writing class (ENG 125 i think?). Anything that everyone in the whole college has to take will not be any more difficult than high school

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I forget the class number but there was a super easy rocket science class I took.

Back in the 80's there was a series of 2 credit courses in geology (or anthropology) affectionately known as "Rocks for Jocks".  The most popular was actualy titled, "Dinosaurs and Other Failures".  I doubt that it's offered anymore.

I did hear from a girl in my dorm that "Sleeping is a dancers homework" so I always thought that the dance classes would be pleasant.  I was an engineering student, so sleep wasn't something that I was very acquainted with.

 

Except I went once to class and that was it and I didn't study for the final and got a B- Also John Kolars' Intro to Geography. All you had to do was sit in his lecture and listen to him blab for an hour.

Intro geoscience class.

I remember my last semester at U-M; I too made sure my schedule allowed for a lot of Brown Jug and Dominick's time.

There was an LS & A non-art major art course back in the day with Professor Prendergast, Emeritus art prof who looked like John Gielgud. We met twice a week for 3 hours, he would discuss an artist for about 10 minutes, and then we would draw for 2 hours and 45 minutes in the style of that artist. The final project was a triptych. No homework and no art skills needed. It was more like therapy for the stress of your other classes. 

Psych 111, anthro, soc.

Although this was NOT an easy class, I HIGHLY suggest taking an English course with Dr. John Rubadeau. It is worth it.

I shit you not, it's real. I went to first class, then took the final and that's it. Cheers!

The easiest class will always be one where the subject is one you love

Amateur Gynecology - fun class, but you have to put in a lot of work after hours in the lab.

You are able to take your work home as well for extra studying.

I am mostly going to echo others, but the easiest classes I took were Psych 111, Anthro 101, and Stats 100 (350 is a different intro class and isn't any harder). The GeoSci mini courses are super easy, but only 1 credit.

A few classes that are slightly harder, but much more interesting are Roman Sports, Greek Myth, and Witchcraft (all are classic civ classes I believe, but don't ask me the specific numbers)

I had a Psych 401 seminar with professor John Hagan. It was a class designed for steering football players and other college athletes into. Total waste of time blowoff class that was basically a glorified study skills class. This was a class I shared with Marques Slocum, in which he was once called on to answer a question, and he just responded with, "Shit, I'm not used to standing up in class. I'm used to standing up to get awards and shit," before walking out of the room. He left early almost every single class period and I'm pretty sure got an A regardless.

Don't go looking for this professor because he has since retired.

MSU girls. Oh I missed the C

Any intro level Education class is easy, but I think you have to be in the School of Ed or going through a certification process to take them.

Posted about this before but...

This information is 20 years out of date but since I was an architecture major I took an elective course called "Intro to Urban Planning" because it sounded relevant - wasn't a bad class since we did learn some stuff but gottdamn it was easy as shit, and it would've been a blow-off class had I been less interested in the subject matter.  As it happened, the Fab Five and a few football players (including Doug Skene) were also in the class.  I think they skipped 1/3 of the classes but it's not like they were significantly worse off than everyone else in that regard. Jalen and Chris were somewhat chatty and personable and had some good insights on how inner-city Detroit was laid out differently than the burbs and Doug Skene at one point snarked that Elvis Grbac (who was his roommate, iirc) wasn't really a fun guy.  Granted, that falls in line with the stereotype about quarterbacks.

What was amusing was that I mentioned taking this class several years afterwards at my workplace and one of the older architects who'd also gone to Michigan said that the professor was pretty famous for blow-off classes.

Also - I'd be surprised if the same professor was still there but the "History of the Vietnam War" class I took 2nd sem. freshman year was hands-down the best class I took - the professor (whose name escapes me) and his whole squad absolutely killed it and we actually give him a standing ovation after he concluded the classes' final lecture.