Has anyone taken this course?

How is it?
a bird course?

2YY3 is new this year. This past year it was 3G03, just Ethics. Now there's an Advanced Ethics course (3CC3), but it doesn't sound like 3G03, so I'm pretty sure 3G03 is more or less the same as 2YY3.

All depends who teaches it I guess. If you don't normally take philosophy courses and think it's going to be easy because it's "ethics" then I'd advise against it. No philosophy courses are really bird classes, and that's especially true as you take higher level courses (some first years might be easy only because there's so much to grade and so few to do it).

Like Knox said, most philosophy courses aren't "bird" courses when you get into the upper years. Reading philosophy isn't easy, especially when you get numerous run-on sentences and ideas that are somewhat between the lines.

I took the third year Ethics course last year, which used to be the only real Ethics course we had. I managed to get a 10, which I'm happy with, but it was a lot of work with weekly assignments, weekly readings, and some tough topics. The professor was different than the professor who will be teaching the new Intro to Ethics course, so maybe you'll be luckier - maybe not.

If you're genuinely interested in philosophy, and comfortable reading it, then maybe you'd enjoy it.