Humanities Elective without Essay
06-13-2011 at 10:23 AM
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Humanities Elective without Essay
I was wondering, are there are any first or second year electives in the faculty of humanities where you don't have to write an essay?
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06-13-2011 at 10:31 AM
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....It's the Humanities. All we do is write essays
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06-13-2011 at 10:35 AM
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In terms of first year courses, the only ones that come to mind are Linguistics 1A03/1AA3.
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06-13-2011 at 10:52 AM
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Most courses have atleast 1-2 essays to write, ranging anywhere from 1000-4000 words. Some assignments in certain courses, although they give you no limit, they ask you to encirporate certain knowledge in your final assignment, which lengthens your paper. My final paper for Peace Studies 1A03 (ugh, that course was so good), was about 22 pages long.
I actually totally forgot about linguistics
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06-13-2011 at 11:21 AM
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....It's the Humanities. All we do is write essays
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I was gonna say lol. When MI first opened chat, I was only ever online when I was writing essays. Which was pretty much every week lol.
EDIT: Aelya, your paper was 22 pages long?!  I'm finishing my paper for that class now (it's due tomorrow) and it's only 1500 words, which is about 5-6 pages. Which prof did you have?
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06-13-2011 at 11:44 AM
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MMEDIA typically -- had one essay for 1A03, but it was converted into a website
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06-13-2011 at 01:18 PM
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Music 2II3...but good luck getting in now.
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06-13-2011 at 02:45 PM
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MMEDIA 1A03 - our final website was an "essay" - which wasnt really an essay and our exam was fill in the blank and paragraph answers
MMEDIA 1B03 - no essays at all
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06-13-2011 at 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by lizziepizzie
I was gonna say lol. When MI first opened chat, I was only ever online when I was writing essays. Which was pretty much every week lol.
EDIT: Aelya, your paper was 22 pages long?! I'm finishing my paper for that class now (it's due tomorrow) and it's only 1500 words, which is about 5-6 pages. Which prof did you have? |
It wasn't so much a paper and it was a creative dialogue between two opposing parties (I chose Andrea Dworkin and Ingrid Newkirk) on a mutual issue. There were a crapton of footnotes as well. It was well worth the effort because it turned out well.
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06-13-2011 at 04:26 PM
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French 1A06 had like..2-3 essays of 600 words each, pretty easy stuff
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06-13-2011 at 04:43 PM
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French 1A06 had like..2-3 essays of 600 words each, pretty easy stuff
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Agreed. Most beginner's language courses would have little, if any, essays at all.
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06-13-2011 at 05:31 PM
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thanks for the input =) ill look into mmedia
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