<p>I was interested in a FWS revolving around books, but will this be too much work and reading? Should I take something without much work? And how are these classes graded/factored in? (Arts and Sciences)</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Same question (Engineering)</p>
<p>My thoughs are that you'll have reading for everyone. 2 plays perhaps if you're studying shakespeare (though it could be hella sonnets or a combination), or many multiple sources, such as essays and excepts if you're taking something like "The Jazz Age."</p>
<p>I think the key should be picking something you're interested in. It's hard to write in an "easy" course if you aren't interested, but you might be able to write passionately in a hard course if the subject was close to heart.</p>
<p>Obviously the overall easiness is dependent on your writing skills, but theres not much one can do about that.</p>
<p>I took the Math writing seminar last semester (math 189), and it was really easy. We did almost no reading. First semester, I took a Jazz one, and it was a lot of reading, but not too much writing at all.</p>
<p>Take an easy one like FGSS 121, "Butches, *******, & Buggers: An Exploration of Twentieth-Century Queer Drama" if you love wasting tuition money. Take a hard one like GERST 111, "Goethe, Schiller, and their Contemporaries" if you like learning things.</p>
<p>Don't worry about what's hard or easy, take something you'll enjoy. That's my advice to you. Some will be more work than others, but that will depend more on the professor than the course you select.</p>
<p>Whether hard or easy, you will have to write 6-9 five page essays in any FWS. My only advice is that try to take FWS course taught by a professors because some of the graduate students will give you a hard time.</p>
<p>Haha... i also took the Math 189 FWS! It was so awesome compared to the Last Samurai FWS I took first semester! Freshmen: if you even slightly like math, take the math FWS! You won't regret it!!</p>