I am going to be a junior in Construction Engineering in the fall. According to my advisor, Dr. Parish the course load i had planed on taking was to hard and that i needed to drop one of my classes and take a humanities class instead. I need either a Literature or Social Science course. I would like something easy that doesnt involve a lot of hard work as I shot myself in the foot freshmen year as far as grades where concerend.


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3/29/2006 12:52:41 PM

Don't click on this button, though.

But anyway, for a social science, SOC XXX (don't know the number for the easy intro one) or PSY 201 if you haven't already taken it. There might be easier ones, however.

3/29/2006 1:10:55 PM

SOC 200 or PSY 200

easy as easy can be

3/29/2006 1:21:13 PM

ids 201 online

[Edited on March 29, 2006 at 1:26 PM. Reason : counts for a science, technology, and society course IN the humanities concentration]

3/29/2006 1:24:45 PM

^Man, when I see posts like this I'm loving this class next semester online while on co-op assignment.

3/29/2006 3:48:45 PM

Psy 311

3/29/2006 4:07:49 PM

If you wanna go SOC...id reccommend SOC 202 with Rikard, one of the most laid back and cool teachers i know of

3/29/2006 4:27:22 PM

If you are going for an easy class the find something thats intro to _________. Intro in Shakespeare is a fun class with Hunt. Fun goes along away towards creating an easy feel. So does interesting which you might find with Jesseph for ancient philosophy (although that might be a bit more work).

The easiness will mostly come with it being an intro class, not with it being a humanities class. If you try to study the English translations of Hegel’s German philosophy, or the inner workings of the Categorical Imperative, or the political theories in the Leviathan, or to understand the references & allegories of the Inferno, or the societal reflections of the Republic, or the complexities of religions because you are looking for an easy A, then you will not be happy with the results.

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" According to my advisor, Dr. Parish the course load i had planed on taking was to hard and that i needed to drop one of my classes and take a humanities class instead"

I’m not attacking you, since obviously you are trying for feedback to find an easier humanities course which suggests that you atleast believe many humanities courses can be challenging. But this guy Parish seems like him his educational breadth is minimal compared to the depth, and he doesn’t know what he’s talking about outside of his own field.

3/29/2006 5:33:22 PM

What's your major? What courses had you been planning to take?

There are bad advisors out there. I know a couple folks whose advisor had told them that since they hadn't taken physics in high school, to take it credit only, because they didn't have a chance at passing the first time they took it

3/29/2006 5:39:34 PM

^ I agree. I had two advisors at NC State both of them told me to take classes that didn't go towards my major. So watch what advice you get from your advisors and always go for a second or third opinion.

3/29/2006 6:26:39 PM

I wouldn't waste a free elective on an "easy class" if it was a topic I didn't enjoy. If the hard class you are thinking is in a topic related to your major that you enjoy, then I think you should give serious consideration to keeping it. Your advisor may have a more experience on how people generally fair, but you being 21 should have some idea of what you can handle personally. I think if your first instinct was to go for the hard class, then don't let the advisor get you to 2nd guess yourself, and work your way through the class you wanted.

3/29/2006 9:39:10 PM

i dont think he is talking about using a "free elective"

I think he meant that his advisor told him he was taking too many classes in his major. I'm not completely sure about Construction Engineering, but most engineering classes require significantly more work than a typical humanities course. He is just trying to find a class that will fulfill his on of his humanities requirements in place of taking one of his major courses.

for a social science . . . just take into to psych.

3/30/2006 12:23:14 PM

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"just take into to psych. "

Again that would be easy b/c its intro, not b/c its a humanities class. Advanced psych classes I'm sure are plenty of work. Most engineers seem to do the lower level humanities and then get the impression humanities are easier. As a philosophy major, most of my engineering/sci/math classes have been easy b/c they are intro. I suppose the only difference is with your intro to non-humanities courses you will occasionally get the impression that they are hard b/c you landed in a weed-out course. I won't even get started on what I think about considering people bright enough to get into college and who are paying their way through as weeds, but if you want easy humanities for the most part one would need to take an intro or low level class. (I know there are a few higher numbered classes that are easy, but they are the exceptions not the rule)

3/30/2006 1:20:16 PM

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"Again that would be easy b/c its intro, not b/c its a humanities class. Advanced psych classes I'm sure are plenty of work. Most engineers seem to do the lower level humanities and then get the impression humanities are easier."

well duh . . . aren't we a master of stating the obvious

And did I say anywhere that all humanites are "easier" than engineering courses? No, I said that they had a smaller work load. Granted, all humanities don't necessarily have a lighter load. But the ones that a typical engineer would take to fulfill their humanities requirements do. Heck, every non-engineering course I have taken has had a lighter work load than any engineering class (E 115 and E 101 dont count as real engineering classes, althoguh E 101 had a bunch of work for the project) that I have taken.

A class being "easy" is subjective. The material might be super easy and make perfect sense to be, but could take someone else hours upon hours to understand it.

4/4/2006 12:27:24 PM

It shouldn’t be unreasonable to see how I took this
“but most engineering classes require significantly more work than a typical humanities course.”

The way I did before you added the qualifiers that the kind of humanities an engineer would like take would be easy, not all humanities in general. This is also true of the kind of science classes a CHASS person would take in that those sciences would be easier than humanities classes. Without the new qualifiers I think I took it in a reasonable way, but I see what you meant now.

4/4/2006 3:54:10 PM

What qualifiers? All I did was state what should be common sense:

A typical engineer is just going to try to fulfill his requirements and not want to take some super advanced shit when a intro course will count the same. Just as a typical non engineering person most likely isn't going to take something like advanced thermal system design when all they are required is something basic that just gives a broad overview.

But that isn't even mentioning that they would have to take introductory courses as prereqs before they could ever get into the advanced class. And some intro course aren't even all that basic. There are quite a few engineering intro courses that are junior and senior level.

And I know that any classes work load depends on the teacher, be it an engineering class or a humanites class. But in general, a humanities class that a non humanities major is taking, will be less work. I think that is pretty much self explanatory though.

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4/5/2006 8:39:19 AM