Hey can anyone tell me a little bit about these courses? With regards to interest and difficulty, and how the exams were.

Essentially I am just trying to complete my Health Studies Minor and just need a course.

I am trying to decide between these two, any information would be helpful.

I have never taken these courses before, but here are course outlines for them for this past year (They are under 5th heading "Contemporary and Comparative Religions"):

http://www.socsci.mcmaster.c a/rels...te/courses.cfm

Note that the course structure may change from year to year, but hopefully these outlines could give you a rough idea of what you might be getting yourself into.

I've taken 2WW3 with Dr. Ross. She's an incredible professor-- my favorite in the religious studies department. I found it challenging while most of my friends didn't. The content is really interesting if you're interested in health. However, it focuses more on health care from the traditional point of view rather than health as we know it. I'd recommend the course just stay on top of your readings (there's quite a few).

Thanks! Would you happen to know how the tests are, since I noticed in the outline it said that the multiple choice questions often have more than 1 right answer.

Regards,

I took 2M03. I thought it was a decent course, not as interesting as I hoped it would be, but it was still okay, since I was already interested in death and dying. There are mandatory tutorials every week, so attendance makes up part of the grade. There are 3 assignments and one essay, so your marks are spread out between different things, which I thought was good so if you bomb one thing it's not the end of the world. You get to pick which readings you want your assignments on, so you can strategically pick readings that occur on weeks where you don't have any other work to do, so you can definitely have time to do them. You plan your own funeral in the essay, which is pretty cool.

The main thing is just to keep on top of the readings, every single week, and take notes so when there's a test, it's not a huge pain in the arse .. plus it's hard to participate in tutorials unless you've done the reading.

I forgot to add, the exam was pretty decent, in my opinion. It was some multiple choice (which was basic .. just tested if you remembered some details from the readings), and then three essay questions. The questions were pretty standard and predictable. It helped to bring up my grade.
The midterm was all multiple choice. I didn't do that well on it, but that's probably because I didn't study that much for it, and didn't finish all the readings. The questions were very straightforward, so if I felt as if I had done all the readings, I would have done very well. Basically, if you do all the readings and study your notes, you are bound to do well.

are there any presentations included in religion st 2WW3??