<p>What are they?</p>
<p>Take classes because they’re interesting, not because they’re easy.</p>
<p>just look through the ctec reports…</p>
<p>I’m with sainclaire.
Bad question.</p>
<p>Oh Party poopers. </p>
<p>The easiest classes I’ve taken have been Mat Sci 101, Phil 262, a number of BIP classes (Sustainable Innovation, Investment Banking, Strategic Decision Making), PHIL 395 - Business Ethics. </p>
<p>Generally, look for 390/395ish level classes in the social sciences/humanities. These are the ones teachers teach for fun, and many times aren’t super serious with them as they are with required major courses.</p>
<p>The easiest class I took at Northwestern (I’m graduating soon) was the Alexander Technique. It met once a week for an hour where you learned to stand up/sit down and have good posture. If you showed up for all 9 classes, you got an A (half of a credit). No outside work. It’s supposed to be for like orchestral musicians who need good posture playing their instruments for a long time. Unfortunately, they closed the loophole and now only music majors are able to register for it.</p>
<p>Easiest class I took at NU (years ago, when I was a student there) was Analysis of Performance, a 200-level requirement for Comm. Studies majors and a handful of other programs. It was also one of the most fun. My partner in that class is now a starting D lineman in the NFL with a Super Bowl ring. </p>
<p>Runner up was probably a course in the School of Music that’s no longer offered called Ethnomusicology: Musical Manifestations of the Ramayana. Perhaps it wasn’t the easiest course, but the professor, who is no longer at NU, did a fantastic job of sharing her passion and joy for the subject matter with the class. The topic was also fascinating, and I later visited many of the Indian and Southeast Asian historical sites that were mentioned in the readings.</p>
<p>suppasonic, what on earth is BIP?</p>
<p>BTW thanks for the 390/395 tip.</p>
<p>WildLion, I thought you were talking about Barry Cofield but he graduated in '06. What D-Lineman are you speaking of…</p>
<p>Linguistics 250: Sound Patterns in Human Language. It’s basically just a bunch of memorization, although it is interesting if you’re interested in languages.</p>
<p>BIP – Business Institutions Program.</p>
<p>It’s northwestern’s business minor. Avoid the clearly harder Accounting and Marketing classes.
Most of them are easy A’s</p>
<p>Poli Sci 230 - Intro to Law in the Political Arena w Skogan
Math 104 - Intro to Game Theory
Poli Sci 220 - Intro to US Gov’t and Politics.
Soc 260 (or something) - Law and Society w Nielsen</p>
<p>Granted, I was a poli sci major w a strong quant mind, but the aforementioned classes were borderline condescending in how easy they were. </p>
<p>I took a bunch of 300-level classes in poli sci and history that I got As in and I’d like to think I earned them. Typically the trade-off in the social sciences is that if you take a 300 level class you will get hundreds of pages of reading a week and classes will be small enough that you will be called out if you’re unprepared. BUT, half the class is going to get an A- or an A. So if you are willing to legitimately do the reading, be attentive in class, and make a decent effort on papers/studying for exams, you’ll be alright.</p>
<p>MohinaKundu–Unfortunately, I can’t get any more specific. You’ll just have to trust your investigative instincts. 
I graduated several years ago (read: have already had at least one reunion).</p>