Hey i was wondering which second year electives would be easy and also not have lots of readings...maybe a geography class? or a women's study course?
thanks

Chem 2OA3 and 2OB3. Have fun.

2nd year students can take 1st year courses, so I suppose that counts.

Originally Posted by britb

Chem 2OA3 and 2OB3. Have fun.

I agree. Piece of cake, plus they're pretty interesting. If you don't believe, check out this video of Dr. Brooks... what a baller!

http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

i was just wondering what the general view is on Women St 2bb3- images Of The Divine Feminine?

thanks

Originally Posted by Lalalaland

i was just wondering what the general view is on Women St 2bb3- images Of The Divine Feminine?

thanks

The "images" part of the description seems kind of interesting. That's my view. :(

linguistics 1a03/1aa3
econ 1b03/1bb3
geog 2ru3 (not so bad)

it would appear that this forum has an absence of a certaom ornithological piece...
a post regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety...

Originally Posted by Lalalaland

i was just wondering what the general view is on Women St 2bb3- images Of The Divine Feminine?

thanks

I don't know about this course, but I took Women St 1A03 this past year and I didn't like it. Basically the whole course consists of readings where you learn about terms/theories/themes in women's studies and there was a quiz on the readings every week in tutorial. I just didn't find the course interesting or to my taste at all, but there were girls in the course that loved it and retained the material very easily.

Originally Posted by Angoose

Has anyone taken psych2ap3 (abnormal psych). It seems pretty interesting, but I'm wondering how the workload/difficulty is, since I think my courses will be pretty heavy next year, what with orgo :(.

I definitely wouldn't call it a bird course. I wouldn't call any psych course I've taken thus far a bird course, actually.

The material is interesting, yes, but Dr. Day (amazing prof, btw!) has pretty hard midterms, and he expects you to know the material very well, especially the numbers (population prevalence, and so on) for EVERY disorder, as well as the etiology (which can get confusing and rather long) of each. It's a lot of memorization and understanding, and a decent amount of readings to do.

Originally Posted by xo.monica

I definitely wouldn't call it a bird course. I wouldn't call any psych course I've taken thus far a bird course, actually.

The material is interesting, yes, but Dr. Day (amazing prof, btw!) has pretty hard midterms, and he expects you to know the material very well, especially the numbers (population prevalence, and so on) for EVERY disorder, as well as the etiology (which can get confusing and rather long) of each. It's a lot of memorization and understanding, and a decent amount of readings to do.

I'd agree with this. The course is essentially an exercise in memorization of extraneous details for the test. Readings make up 20% of the questions on the test. Personally, I didn't even do any of the reading. I had friends who did, and still didn't know the answers to the questions on the test.

There is an online test-bank of questions. Dr. Day will tell you that only doing the test-bank questions for studying is a bad idea, but it's what I did for both midterms and the exam. I finished with an 8 in the class (not the best, but since I had lost my motivation it was good enough). I had other, harder and more important classes to study for, so my "studying" for the exam was 2 days worth of test-bank questions ad nauseum. The questions *will* show up on the test, word for word, and they will make up ~70% of the questions on the midterm. The only problem is there may be 3 questions that are all worded 98% the same, but the 1 or 2 words difference will completely change the question.

But it got to a point where I was getting 90% of the questions right on the test-bank, and somehow I pulled an 86% on the exam.