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Originally Posted by Fight0
You could easily survive both. If I were to pick one though I would go with Psych 1X03 as it's a fairly easy course.
I took History 1A03 in my first year, and I found it to be a pretty heavy amount of work with the essays. In general I find it harder to get really high marks in social science/humanties courses than other courses. I ended getting an alright mark by my standards in 1A03 but was told by the prof that I had one of the highest marks in the class.
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If you're going to pick a History elective I preferred 1A03 and 1B03 to 1BB3 although had the Professor been different I think I would have liked 1BB3 best. Of the 3 I think the material for 1BB3 is the most interesting.
All that said even though I didn't take it I think the subject matter for 1AA3 would be the most interesting. I did similiar subject matter in high school history so I decided not to take 1AA3 in first year but I think it would have been really good.
I don't know if you've already ruled out the other first year history courses but I'd recommend a different one over 1BB3, just based on my experience with it. Again though if a different Professor is teaching it (which is a possibility) than it could be awesome.
Reading the above it looks like someone else had a poor experience with 1BB3 with a different professor. So take that for what you will. It can be annoying when you're covering a huge time period and your Professor has a narrow focus you aren't really interested in.
One of the issues I had with Dr. Egan was he was a little bit too broad at some points and glossed over things, but mostly he just taught the whole course from a very strange point. Convoluted is the only word I can use to describe it. It was very strange. I think he was trying to challenge people to think which is all fine and good but his very non-traditional way of teaching history did not appeal to me.
As for History courses they are all generally very essay heavy, as a a lot of other Humanities courses. You definitely have to work hard on your writing skills to excel in these types of courses.