OT: Easiest class at U-M?
So I and many others will be registering for senior fall semester classes this week. I was wondering what mgobloggers thought the easiest class was in their time at Michigan, because who doesn't want a senior year that involves less studying and more Dominick's and Charley's?
Our last several classes were actually held inside Dominicks where beer, sangria and poetry flowed freely.
pretty much the only way to get poetry flowing?
Poetry classes should actually be difficult, because the class should require analysis (of the text), snynthesis (of secondary sources, socio-political climate when the poem was written), and the ability to write about all of it.
There were tons of like one credit mini-classes, like Rocks for Jocks, where you just had a multiple choice test that was basically just memorizing a bunch of stuff. Intro PSYCH was pretty much like that, as was ECON (although the questions in ECON were hard).
Psych 111 and Soc 100
Definitely don't count them as "easy" either. The work may have been simple and you could bs your way through it.... but still actually had to do work.
It's been a while (over 10 years now...wow), but I don't remember too much work in Psych 111. That was actually going to be one of my suggestions. Wasn't there like 1 paper and few assignments for the discussion group aside from exams? Never took Soc, though.
It's easy, but the term paper kind of sucks. Kept me up all night the other day.
It was a history of sports in the late 1800s/early 1900s. It was me and a ton of athletes.
Not only did I take it pass/fail, but your grade was based on a single paper that you could rewrite as many times as you wanted if you weren't happy with your grade.
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Don't think that one exists any more. I remember it and I remember a faculty member telling me it was targeted for extermination due to its reputation.
I took Sports and Daily Life in Ancient Rome (taught by Potter) and IIRC Chad Henne and Mike Hart were in that class along with a few other athletes. Wasn't Potter known for going easy on the athletes?
was fairly easy but potter is a egotistical dick. Potter is a penname, his accent is fake and every book you are required to buy he wrote (or at least thats the way it was when I was there). Class was cool but I can't support that in a professor.
Whoa. I took that class my junior year and I remember Branch being in the class. He was impossible to miss, really. On topic, I agree that the class was pretty easy and very interesting, but I believe there was a good amount of writing you had to do. Take that for what it's worth.
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American fries (while saluting)
Is baked potato subtitled "getting stoned in Ohio"???
My work study class was the only one I got an A in my whole time at Michigan. So I'd go with that.
Math of Games (although its a 300 level class you play games all day, attendance was 80% and one test was 20%... the test was whether or not you showed up that day)
Everyday phsycis - another class that had an attendance portion of grading but actually was interesting and now I can change electrical outlets without too much fear....
The History of U of M that Bacon teaches is pretty good, but I wouldn't classify it as easy as the others, but still an easy and great class.
I took a couple non mathematical physics classes about Basically the first three minutes... I loved them.
Easiest class is guitar.
Do they still have the little one credit classes?
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Getting OP's mom's number 101.
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I always say an easy class isn't just a class with a small workload, it's a class with a small workload that you're interested in. You can take the "easiest" class at this university, but if you find it boring each homework assignment is going to be a pain in the ass. I try to balance easiness with some level of interest.
To that end, I always liked psych and soc classes. Below the 300 level none are really that tough. Creative writing (English 223) is similar if you're into that. Any of the project community classes (in the soc and psych depts) are great if you want to do some volunteering and get credit for it.
public speaking was super easy.
That was Comm 100 twenty years ago.
persuasive communication. . .they still have that. Otherwise
Never fail with the Rocks and Volcanoes.
Also took a few GeoSci minicourses my junior year. I think GeoSci 101 or 102. Stupid easy, but they were actually very interesting classes and I enjoyed the classes.
Also, if you're a sports nut, Bacon's class, Ed 212, is stupid easy. He makes you work, and that might be something you're adverse to, but they're actually fun assignments. I loved my writing assignment since he basically lets you pick what you want to write about, as long as it's not the Fab Five. For the rest of the time, you basically come to class and get to watch Big Ten Icons every other week, and listen to him lecture the other weeks.
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That man is a legend.
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His daughter lived next door to my parents for a few years. Met the guy on campus; I was looking for a fun English class to finish Humanities my sophomore year of Engineering, but I couldn't fit 425 in my schedule.
I got the first and only A+ of my life in that class (K-12 included).
Really easy to memorize before the exam, don't have to go to class, and actually kinda interesting.
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Anthro 101 was the classic fun, cake class in the late 1970's. In fact, this whole discussion is hilarious to an old grad like me, because most of this could have been lifted back 35 years with very little changed.
I took 5 geosci mini-courses my last semester of senior year to fill out general credits. It was awesome until I had 5 hour long exams back to back to back to back to back in one day.
...no easy classes. This is Michigan.
You must not have been LS&A
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I went to what is now the Gerald Ford School. Good times.
I always wanted to take "Wood for non-Majors."
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