<p>Yes, I know that these are "writing seminars", but are there any that require less actual writing than the others... :/ Anyone know anything on the public relations one for business or the history of philadelphia one?</p>
<p>There are so many ways to fulfill the writing seminars. Unlike most top universities (except for Brown), only one semester of wrtiing is required. [The</a> Writing Program - Course Collection System](<a href=“http://fusion.sas.upenn.edu/cwp/ccs/query_results.php]The”>http://fusion.sas.upenn.edu/cwp/ccs/query_results.php)</p>
<p>I think there’s even some way to take writing for chemistry</p>
<p>The amount of work required does vary between seminars (e.g. a friend in the “Value of Money” seminar had far more writing due each week than I did in “Law, Environment, and Identity”). Take a look at Penn Course Review and the ratings on there; those tend to be fairly accurate.</p>
<p>Is it hard to get an A in “Law, Environment, and Identity”?</p>
<p>I didn’t think it was bad. The prof (Dr. Vellani) is great; it’s a very discussion-oriented class, and he’s pretty laidback and easygoing and gives good feedback for your essays. Would recommend that course.</p>
<p>They try to standardize the writing classes so everyone writes the same number of essays. Just take one that sounds interesting to you</p>
<p>There are ones where you write more than others. I remember before Thanksgiving, our professor told us that we had already written much more than the department recommended, so he tossed our remaining assignments. My friend in another one only wrote two essays, one for each portfolio. Both classes were guaranteed As. </p>
<p>Your writing seminar grade comes down to two parts: your portfolios and your class participation/other writing. The former has pretty standard grading, but the latter is pretty subjective. Most people do pretty well on the portfolios, so if you are on good terms with your professor you have a much better chance at an A than if you go out of your way to **** off your professor.</p>
<p>this may seem like a really stupid question, but how easy/hard is it to get the seminar you want?</p>
<p>Some seminars are in higher demand than others, so it can be harder to get into. Definitely rank your seminar classes at the top of your class requests.</p>
<p>If we want both a writing and freshman seminar, which one would you suggest we put first?</p>
<p>Put the writing seminar first. They’re in higher demand. Though, if you don’t get a writing seminar you want, don’t worry because you can take it second semester, or even push it off to first semester sophomore year when you have first dibs.</p>
<p>If you wait until senior year they will let you choose whichever you want so that you can graduate. Procrastinating pays off in this instance.</p>
<p>lol which are the most popular?</p>
Which writing seminars are easy, require the least amount of writing, and will be an easy A?