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I agree that your best bet is to ask students for easy courses they have taken themselves. But there are other ways you can narrow down the catalog to the classes that are most likely to be easy. This, of course, varies from school to school, and there are exceptions, but in general you want to look for these signs:
-low course number
-no prerequisites, consent of instructor not required
-"Intro to" or "Survey of"
-Courses intended for students not majoring in the subject. Note that in many departments there will be two introductory courses: one for majors and one for non-majors. The one for non-majors will usually be lower-numbered. Typical course titles might be "Intro to Whatever" or "Basic Whatever" for non-majors and "Whatever I" or "General Whatever" for majors.
-"Whatever and Society" -- at some schools, these are all REALLY easy courses. Or there might be some other phrase found in many course titles that marks them as really easy.
And of course it all depends on which subjects are your best. An introductory public speaking course might be laughably easy for a student who did debate in high school but a nightmare for someone else. Just looking through the Georgia State course catalog, these are the courses I would choose as the most likely suspects:
New Student Orientation
Music, Society, and Culture
Media, Culture, and Society
Survey of Art
Jazz: Its Origins, Styles, and Influence
Computers & Applications
Intro to Computer Programming for Non-Majors--if you have some programming or other related experience or are good at that sort of thing
Intro to General Psychology
Introduction to Human Geography
Introduction to the Universe--if you're good at math and science
Chemistry for Citizens
The Global Economy
History of Motion Pictures
Geologic Resources & Environment
Concepts of Earth Science
Intro to World Religions
Intro to the Theatre
Intro to Women's Studies
History of News Media
Film and Literature
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