About the countless posts about easy breadth classes, I used to recommend certain courses until I found out the university also knows about it and will get on the professor and request for harsher grading the next time he/she teaches. So it could’ve been easy course at some point, but by the time we take it, it could be not.
And of course, it depends what is ‘easy’ - I’m guessing easy A is the meaning for most folks. But there are courses that are difficult but gives generous A’s at the end, and there are courses that the material isn’t that difficult but ends up giving very harsh grades. So really, what we are looking for is easy course material and easy A, but it’s safer to assume such combination doesn’t exist in Berkeley, at least not permanently.
Then I noticed a bigger problem that the student taking such easy class has absolutely no interest in the material and he/she finds a way to do it poorly. Conversely, what may seem like a challenging course might be just within your interest and you find a way to work hard and ‘easily’ pull the A.
I think just about any class in Berkeley requires some significant effort to get the A; it’s a matter if you enjoy putting in the effort.
If it’s been a while you spoke Chinese and you think got a learning opportunity, then I’m all for it.