<p>Since SPOP is coming up, I was wondering if anyone can provide any suggestions to which teachers/classes to have, or avoid, since we will be signing up for classes during SPOP.</p>
<p>Ratemyprofessors.com will sum it up best</p>
<p>Ratemyprofessor is pretty good for teacher reviews. However, I’ve had some professors that were rated poorly, but they were actually pretty easy. Also, even with the easy classes, sometimes it’s not as much of a joke as you want it to be… And some teachers may be easy, but the “easy” points come from coming to class, which some people fail at… and end up with bad grades lol
But everyone raves about Douglas (Anthro & International Studies), but I’ve never had him since he’s always at night, and his classes fill up anyways. Anthro2A generally is easy. Eppel (mgmt 10 in particular) is pretty easy as well - he teaches management classes. I’ve also heard the Studio Art 9 series is easy. For an easier science I’d recommend Earth System Sciences.</p>
<p>Generally, Ratemyprofessor gives you a good idea. </p>
<p>I took Anthro 2a with Douglas this part Spring quarter, and you certainly need your share of studying done. But as long as you study the lecture notes and read the readings, you should be fine. There are lots of extra credit given on his midterm and final.</p>
<p>Grading can depend on your TA for the final paper however.</p>
<p>For ESS, Druffel is regarded as the easiest professor, but once again you still have to study for it pretty well. As with any other class I guess.</p>
<p>Its definitely relative, and it depends on your study habits and which teaching methods you learn best with.</p>
<p>For Calculus, the “easy” one(s) are Famiglietti and Lehman, but with a new math committee, grading is harder and finals are given by the committee, so it won’t depend too much on professors.</p>
<p>Hey junshik, I think I was in your anthro class with Douglas, haha. It was certainly an easy class and cramming is definitely doable, but I always crammed at LEAST a whole day before the exams. And honestly I found Douglas to be a little dry… waiting for him to write notes and then having him read the exact same thing back to us got kind of old. But otherwise, he was a really nice guy and it was a great class.</p>
<p>Druffel, yes, I took her and she’s adorable. Very caring, very nice, and as long as you study her lectures you will do fine.</p>
<p>About math, yeah it really doesn’t matter anymore since, regardless of which professor you have, you’ll have a common final that every class will take. The only thing that you might wanna consider is how well they teach. </p>
<p>Drama 15, I totally recommend it to fill your arts. It’s a super super easy class and it’s really interesting too. Well, it might be boring to some, but either way it’s super easy and it’s supposed to broaden your thinking. I had Kubiak is a really great lecturer and I got an A+ in the class :p</p>
<p>@PoorCookie, I agree completely. His lectures were very boring with his ghetto notes, wasting paper like there is no tomorrow. Listening to him breathing on the mic… what a disaster. Some of the videos were interesting though. And yes, cram for around 2 days before the exams and you are fine! :]</p>
<p>I heard Classics 45a with Pantelia is also very easy, and an interesting class (The Greek Gods).</p>
<p>I also took MGMT 10 with Eppel, that someone has previously mentioned. It is without a doubt an easy class, tests are OPEN NOTE. So you just print out his online lecture notes and you fine.Thing with this is that it doesn’t fulfill any GE reqs. So it counts as elective credit. The class is required for Business Admin majors however. A VERY interesting class though. I love Eppel.</p>