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?
Any member of the football team. According to o SI UM's football team takes the easiest courses in the Big10.
My intro to poetry prof was so insane that I failed. On papers I tried regurgitating his crackpot theories which basically backfired because I wasn't on peyote. Will Campbell was in that class though. And maybe Jeremy Jackson? They didn't seem to get it either.
Seriously I can't even describe the insane theories he was spouting and I should have documented it more so I could contest my grade.
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.
Yeah I hate the classes where you have to show up to discussions and do busywork. Did really badly in these ones too. Wow im 3/3 on bombing the "easy" classes at the top of this thread.
It's easy, but the term paper kind of sucks. Kept me up all night the other day.
Not sure if this still exists or not but my senior year I took "Sports in Society".
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.
Took this course my sophomore year and sat with Alan branch all semester. Course is really easy. Pretty interesting as well. I really liked potter and took another of his classes my senior year. Seems like the poster above me had a bad experience with him but I liked him a lot.
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.
David Potter is/was legendary. When I took his course, Duderstadt was president at the time and he took a moment or two before every lecture to call him bad names or say something snarky about him. He hated the guy, and I know he wasn't alone.
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History of college athletics with Bacon is interesting and easy. It's through the school of Ed. Also recommend asking advisor about online classes and look at RC classes. -2016 senior graduating in 23 days :(. Enjoy senior year. Real upset I'm missing this upcoming football season on campus. Going to be fun for you.
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American fries (while saluting)
Is baked potato subtitled "getting stoned in Ohio"???
Plants, People, and the Environment.
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.
Was everyday physics like 101 or 102?
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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It was like 106 or something. Definitely not 101
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.
I took Statistics for non business majors and aced it. Sat next to a babe all year, which made the class really enjoying.
We took Economics for non business majors, too, just by coincidence. Great professor - I learned so much. I was during the early 80's and we followed the price of gold all semester.
public speaking was super easy.
That was Comm 100 twenty years ago.
We had some bball players in our class and they would bring my friends and I Peabody's cookies. Man those things were delicious. Also one did a speech entitled "RC=FD" - rough copy equals final draft. Good times.
persuasive communication. . .they still have that. Otherwise
Never fail with the Rocks and Volcanoes.
I've heard Anthro 101 is a joke. Never took it but that's what I heard.
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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Also, if you can swing Eng 425 with John Rubadeau, do it. It fills up fast, and the workload is a bit heavy, but it's so worth it.
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.
I took that class planning to use it as a nap hour. But the professor just told stories and was interesting enough that I used it for daily story time instead.
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Was eeeeeeaaaaasy, at least it was back in the early 2000s. I still remember being assigned a paper where the topic was to observe and describe some relatively common occurrence from an anthropologist's unbiased perspective. I wrote about playing pickup basketball at the IM building. Boom. Nailed it.
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
Take Econ 401 and 402
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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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