<p>Anyone have any suggestions for which professors/classes are good? What does everyone think about these:
-Hum/H 001A East Asian History<br>
Staff
-Hum/H 002 American History
O'Malley, G<br>
-Hum/H 003A European Civilization:Classical and Medieval Worlds
Brown,W<br>
-Hum/H 003B European Civilization: Early Modern Europe<br>
Brewer, J<br>
-Hum/H 003C European Civilization: Modern Europe<br>
Dennison/ T Kormos- Buchwald, D / Rosenstone, R
-Hum/H 004A Before Greece: The Origins of Civilization in Mesopotamia<br>
Buchwald, J<br>
-Hum/En 005 Major British Authors
Haugen, K/ La Belle, J<br>
-Hum/En 006 American Literature and Culture<br>
Esteve, M<br>
-Hum/Pl 008 Right and Wrong<br>
Quartz, S
-Hum/H/HPS 010 Introduction to the History of Science<br>
Feingold, M</p>
<p>Here's what I'm looking for (in order of importance):
1. Few assignments
2. Interesting lectures are
3. An easy professor</p>
<p>So yeah, basically, I want my hums out of the way..... anyone have any good recommnedations?</p>
<p>People tend to really like Brown (Hum 3a) and Quartz is an extraordinary scientist (in the sense that he is a neuroscientist whose background is in philosophy) teaching interesting subject matter (philosophy of ethics) assuming you are into that stuff.</p>
<p>I'm taking Hum/En 005 right now, and it's a fairly relaxed class. We do have readings, some minor poetry questions (on syntax, paraphrasing, and some stuff to do with the Oxford English Dictionary) that could easily be finished within half an hour, and a grand total of three papers, but it's not very heavy work.</p>
<p>If you tend to procrastinate like I do, it's easier to read a poem and write a paper on it (which is what I did on my second paper) than reading an entire book and writing a paper on it (which is what my friend did for a different Hum).</p>
<p>I'm taking Hum3a with Brown right now. He's a good prof, with very interesting lectures and really knows his stuff. I wouldn't call him an "easy" professor, but seriously, we're on pass/fail still. If you just talk in discussions, and fulfill the assignments, you'll pass easily. In my class, we had one short initial paper, two 2000 word papers, with which we do revisions, and a final. The readings aren't that long, usually short enough to do (or skim) the night before... I've enjoyed it.</p>
<p>Dauntless9, do you know what the final exam will be? Is it questions like reading comprehension? I am also taking Hum3a, but I was late into the class when he talked about final exam. Thanks.</p>
<p>I took Hum 4A last year on the logic that we couldn't possibly have many records of Mesopotamia, hence there couldn't possibly be much work or reading. Unfortunately for me, Mesopotamians wrote in clay and made a lot of copies. Consider yourself warned. But there was a whole lot of really fascinating material that changed my way of thinking about history (...despite a solid "no hum reading" policy which continues to serve me well). Buchwald's approach leans towards evolutionary psychology rather than straight history; instead of just learning /when/ monotheistic religions came about you'll study the memetic advantages they offer. If you can stomach sort of dry, rambling morning lectures, I'd highly recommend the course.</p>
<p>With regards to assignments and easiness... there was only one assignment, a single paper (I think this may have been in two drafts, so that each draft was half the required word count for a frosh hum). Due at the end of the course, no feedback. So it's hard to tell, but it probably wasn't graded harshly.</p>