Easy 300 lvl courses? (UofC Students).

[troutman]

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[Red Mile Style]

Originally Posted by icarus

If Brian Keating is still teaching it, you must take human anthropology and primatology (ANTH 325?? Don't quote me on that). You watch home movies of him chilling with Jane Goddall in Gombe and in other exotic locations around the world. Plus he is also very funny and engaging (that's why he had shows on the Discovery Channel and CBC Radio).

It is also really easy, if that motivates your course selection (which I find personally objectionable, but to each his own).

Whatever you do, do not take any classes with Keating. I almost failed his Anthropology 201!

It's probably going to be hard to get into a 300 level class without some prereqs within the department. But, if you can, I would go with a music or film class... slack! so slack!

Way to go with the IR!

[Agamemnon]

Originally Posted by CaramonLS

Well, I completed all my degree requirements. I mean don't get me started on having to complete 'options' which have absolutely nothing to do with what you are taking in order to get a degree.

Man I hear ya. Stats 205 (or something) was the only course I ever sweated passing, I took it in the summer of my final year, it was a required option. It sucked.

[Winsor_Pilates]

How many do you need? I was in the same boat with 9 options still needed so I picked up a minor. You may want to do the same if you still have a lot left.
Atleast that way you get something out of the extra classes.

And as a Soci major, I will admit some of those 300's are really easy. The intro to crime with Manzo is easy and fun. The intro to gender was really easy too.
A lot of those are easy because they're introductory into more concentrated areas that get harder later.

[TheCommodoreAfro]

They still offering the full year "Movie" course - drama 350. Some papers but if you like movies and don't want to think about having to decide on multiple courses this might be good.
(If you don't want to take it, you can always simply sneak into Science Theatre on a Wednesday night and watch the films they're showing anyway)

[icarus]

Originally Posted by Red Mile Style

Whatever you do, do not take any classes with Keating. I almost failed his Anthropology 201!

You must have the IQ of a brick then.

His multiple choice exams were essentially something like:

Which of the following is not a monkey:

a) the Patas monkey
b) Curious George, the curious little monkey
c) All of the above
d) Your pencil

[Red Mile Style]

Originally Posted by icarus

You must have the IQ of a brick then.

His multiple choice exams were essentially something like:

Which of the following is not a monkey:

a) the Patas monkey
b) Curious George, the curious little monkey
c) All of the above
d) Your pencil

Thanks for the kind words...

Seriously, I almost failed Anthro 201 with him, and I'm not the only one who thinks that he's tough. My roomate dropped it and there were a lot of people in the class that did really bad. Maybe he's easier in the higher levels, but I think he curved the grades at the end, which totally saved me. I remember on his midterm I looked at my mark and it said 38, and I thought that was out of the 50 questions, but it was my percent! I didn't even find this out until a week before the final when my mark going in was WAY lower than I thought, so I had to bust my ass to pass. Lowest mark in university.

[icarus]

Originally Posted by Red Mile Style

Thanks for the kind words...

Seriously, I almost failed Anthro 201 with him, and I'm not the only one who thinks that he's tough. My roomate dropped it and there were a lot of people in the class that did really bad. Maybe he's easier in the higher levels, but I think he curved the grades at the end, which totally saved me. I remember on his midterm I looked at my mark and it said 38, and I thought that was out of the 50 questions, but it was my percent! I didn't even find this out until a week before the final when my mark going in was WAY lower than I thought, so I had to bust my ass to pass. Lowest mark in university.

Well I just had a look at my transcript to see what course it was I took with him, and it was in fact Anthro 201 also (so of no use to this specific thread after all), in fall 1999. I do remember the first half of the course and midterm on human evolution was taught by someone else, but Keating did the second half on primatology. And all you had to do was to sit through videos of him with monkeys. The final multiple choice exam was a breeze; I really don't know why you found it so hard. I don't even remember studying for it (I ended up with an A-). At one point in the exam I went up to clarify one of the questions with him, and he said to me "the one you've got circled is right".

I did enjoy the course though, so maybe that is why I did well. I recall before the exam started being very annoying when some ditzy girls in front of me said 'what is this guy's name again?' I felt like shouting at them, "don't you watch the Discovery channel? This is Brian fricking Keating!" So I guess I was a bit of a nerd in that regard. I was after all a zoology major. But I put no effort into that course and got a pretty good mark, and other courses I worked my ass off in and got B's.

But advising someone not to take a course with him because it was hard? Mindboggling to me.

[CaramonLS]

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[tripin_billie]

Usually anything in the Germanic Studies department is a good bet for a not too tough course.