Which is EASIER in terms of studying and helpful for 3rd year courses?

PSYCH 2C03 (Social something)

EARTH 2GG3 (Natural Disasters)

I would avoid taking courses based on easiness.

Psych 2C03 is difficult if you don't go to class or read the text. Ostovich has high expectations from her students, but the course is fascinating.

2GG3 is supposed to be really easy, but it's also a bore.

I did well in Psych 2C03, but some people had trouble Our average was like 70% for the exam and midterms were around 65%. All psychs have significant short answer portions and you have to figure out if that is a strength of yours. The course material was extremely and very relevant, so you will surely be intrigued. But for her short answers, you have to be specific about the experiences, identify the variables, method. She is a very helpful professor. But your SA depend on your TA, hopefully you get a more lienient one.

Natural Disasters is easy only with Padden or anyone except for Riller. I have heard bad things about Riller, if it is Riller than do not take it.

Haha I happened to take both courses last year in my second semester
2C03 is fun, but like was stated above, you need to be in class since the online notes are missing certain examples that she requires on exams.
2GG3 isn't too hard, the tests/exams are all long asnwer though, it's about 5 questions and you have to be able to explain in detail about certain natural disasters/calamities - if you attend lecture, read the book and understand natural processes, you should be fine! I screwed up the midterm REALLY badly and hardly passed because I wasn't used to exams like this but i studied pretty hard for the exam and came out with an 85

For 2GG3, Riller is changing the tests/exam, he said it could ALL be multiple choice because there are so many students and not enough TAs.