<p>Why do some R&C classes have exam times designated for finals week, and others don't? I'm just wondering if the classes with designated exam times actually have finals during that period, or if it's just a formality and there's just a final paper that can be turned in at some point during finals week. Just trying to avoid finals that are late in the week.</p>
<p>Also, do you recommend any particular R&C B class, or, especially, a particular professor? A lot of the more notoriously easy R&C classes like German R5B aren't being offered this fall, so I'm looking for the next best thing. :)</p>
<p>None of the R&C courses should have a real final exam. Usually that final exam date means the deadline to turn in your research paper.</p>
<p>Cast a wider look at the R&C hosted by various foreign language departments - not just German and Scandanavian, also look at Italian, Slavic, French, and Spanish for Fall. Some of the xxx Studies departments have interesting courses focused on national literature or upon important themes in their area - look at South Asia, Near Eastern, Native American, Legal, Gender and Women’s, Celtic, Asian American, African American, and History of Art in Fall. The category that is generally going to have the most picky, most demanding and highest required workload are those related to english language itself, but they are not only in the English department. By these I mean English, Comparative Lit, Rhetoric, but also Film and Media. It tends to be the GSIs doing the grading and they tend to be much fussier about wording if they are from these disciplines.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks! Good to know more about the final paper thing, and I’ll check out all of those departments.</p>