<p>What Electives (humanities/social sciences) are good to take at rutgers, and which are the hardest? (incoming freshman)</p>
<p>and what are you(incoming freshmen) guys taking?</p>
<p>This is based on my experience this past year as a first year:</p>
<p>**Easiest:<a href=“1”>/B</a> General Psychology – It seems like everyone and their mother takes this class first semester, lol. It’s interesting though.
(2) Topics in Math For Liberal Arts – If you are a liberal arts major (non-science/non-math), take this class. It fulfills one of the math requirements.</p>
<p>Hardest: Might sound weird but, Introduction to Communication and Information Processes. Those exams…yikes! O__o You know an exam is a bit challenging when you and 30 other kids are meeting with the teacher for office hours at the same time looking over your last test wondering why you got a 78%. Don’t take it!</p>
<p>I’m an incoming freshman taking Spanish. (haven’t taken the placement yet, though, so I don’t know which one.)</p>
<p>I’m considering Sociology in the Family if I’m exempt through AP tests, but I dunno…</p>
<p>Hmm, I was about to take Sociology of the Family in the Fall, but I kind of let ratemyprofessor.com change my mind =</p>
<p>I know, I know – rate my professor is not reliable considering that sometimes students who got A’s and sucked up to the teacher probably rated that teacher higher, while the slackers rated the teacher low. </p>
<p>But in this case I couldn’t take a risk after taking a class last semester, later to read on ratemyprofessor that the teacher gave difficult exams (I wished I had known before I took the class). </p>
<p>Plus it seems like the teacher who is teaching the sociology class seem to suck according to the reviews from students who got high grades and those who got average grades (C+/C). Apparently she’s boring and the class is a “GPA killer”. </p>
<p>But don’t let that stop you from taking that class if you want to!</p>
<p>ouch, no, I know bad teachers just suck the life out of anything they touch. :/</p>
<p>I have a question: I’m in engineering, do visual arts classes count as arts/humanities classes? Cause I got a list (a considerably short list considering SAS’s choices) of the ones that would fill the requirement and barely any of them appeal to me… or do classes other than the ones on that sheet count?</p>
<p>wow that barely helped me. I’m actually in a similar situation as the guy above me. engineering major wanting to do performing arts though. Do performing arts classes meet outside the school schedule or do they meet during the schedule and would they count.</p>
<p>What is it that you want to know exactly? Sorry I couldn’t help, but you didn’t specify anything. =</p>
<p>I don’t know if this is what you are looking for, but here:
[Welcome</a> to the Office of Academic Affairs](<a href=“http://coewww.rutgers.edu/oaa/electives.php]Welcome”>http://coewww.rutgers.edu/oaa/electives.php)
<a href=“http://coewww.rutgers.edu/oaa/Humanities_list.pdf[/url]”>http://coewww.rutgers.edu/oaa/Humanities_list.pdf</a></p>
<p>Maybe contact an adviser to address the elective issue.</p>
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<p>I’m a non-traditional student (work FT, classes PT, + family/life) and trying to find classes that don’t have 10+ page assignments. I’ve already taken a few of those and it’s exhausting. This past semester I took 9 credits and one of my classes had two 10-pagers and I got a B : /. I’m a labor studies major and my major will be fulfilled by end of Fall 09. I am taking 12 credits in the summer and that will fulfill my history minor. However, I still have to get the required 120 credits to graduate and I’m tired of the long papers. If I can take classes that don’t require so much work, perhaps I can take 5 courses instead of 4 this Fall. Please let me know if you know of any easy courses that won’t require such excessive work. Thanks.</p>
<p>i would suggest creative writing with yerra sugarman. she’s one of the better creative writing profs, along with ramsey, who is on the board of the writer’s house. I’m not sure about the other creative writing professors because some make you do waay too much work, and are kind of closed-minded. but with sugarman, we just wrote six works over the course of the semester–one blank verse in syllabics, one letter in iambic pentameter, one sonnet, one short story, one dramatic monologue/one-act play, and one memoir. not too bad. there are readings, but i stopped doing them towards the end, and she didn’t really expect everyone to read them; they were merely suggested, but prof sugarman encouraged us to read them. and plus, the discussions and critiques were enjoyable. counts as a 3 credit course.</p>
<p>intro to art history 106 (105 is just boring and looking at a bunch of sculptures and buildings that all look the same, in my opinion) is also a kind of low-effort course. the only paper you write is 2-3 pages, and is based on a trip to the met and a painting that you choose from a list that they give you. the exams require quite a bit of studying, but you can do well, especially if you have a wonderfully lenient ta like I had.</p>
<p>i would also say like introductory science courses that are only intended to fulfill the gen ed science requirement would be fairly easy courses. I took drugs and plant hallucinogens with auerbach. kind of a hard class, content-wise, but the professor is thoroughly informative and not boring 
very interesting, but kind of hard, and effort is only required for the three exams. I am also taking the science of food next semester (closed but my friend got a special permission number so maybe you can too?) which is also supposed to be an easy class. doesn’t even require a textbook. </p>
<p>and performing arts ie the basic acting course do meet within the schedule, i believe. not too much work but do require lots of you know, effort and such. </p>
<p>and as you see on the course registrar, a lot of visual arts courses are only open to visual arts majors. you can only major in visual arts through mason gross (a friend tried to do it through sas, but sas just doesn’t offer such a major). so then the assumption goes that these courses count as mason gross courses, not sas courses, and so would not count as an art or humanities course.</p>