Easiest Writing Seminars?

Colleges & Universities Cornell University
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<p><a href=“http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute/fws/SP2006_FWSBrochure.pdf[/url]”>http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute/fws/SP2006_FWSBrochure.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Here’s the list for this year. Anyone know which courses are the easiest?</p>

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<p>Impossible to predict. Depends solely on the teacher.</p>

<p>Pick ones that look interesting and just add/drop (switch) into one if you don’t like the one you’re assigned.</p>

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<p>Ah, I figured it would be a crapshoot. But aren’t there any courses that are notoriously easy?</p>

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<p>You don’t even know which one you’ll get.</p>

<p>Just sign up for the interesting ones, then check out the syllabus and teacher on the first day. You’ll be able to gauge how much work it sounds like (compare to friends if you can’t), and you can switch out if it’s not for you.</p>

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<p>Just take one you like. If they still offer Myths and Memories of War, it’s sick, take it. You watch war movies in class, and I got an A+ doing no more work than I did for any AP English class.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t be concerned about difficulty of your FWS, most people I know got A’s.</p>

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<p>That is the spring 2006 list.</p>

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<h2>HISTORY 126</h2>

<p>A history of Cornell</p>

<p>:p</p>

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<p>btw, Thats a mighty huge list.
What happens when you want a course, which no one else has chosen. Will the professor teach only 1 student?</p>

<p>Also, are all Writing Seminars under CAS?</p>

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<p>The ballot system ensures that no writing seminar is over- or under-enrolled.</p>

<p>The writing seminars are in a variety of departments, which are in a variety of colleges.</p>

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<p>from what i remember, all the linguistics ones were pretty easy. and pretty interesting.</p>

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<p>Actually, history of cornell doen’st seem to be such an easy class. The median grade was B+.</p>

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<p>Since when is a class with a median of B+ considered hard?</p>

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<p>Well, if as Spanks said most people get A, then wouldn’t a median of B+ be comparatively low?</p>

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<p>Hmm…In the newstudents site, the say they offer 100 Writing Seminar courses.
But, doesn’t this seem way more than 100? And even tho this is Spring 2006 list, I suppose the Spring term and Fall term woulf offer same number of courses.</p>

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<p>where did you get the median grades for these writing seminar classes?</p>

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<p>Wow so many ones I want to take…</p>

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<p>harvardman1988,
The Cornell Registrar used to post all of the classes, number of students enrolled and the median grades earned for each term. I don’t know if it still lists the info, but it did as of april 2006.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://sws2.sas.cornell.edu/our/Student/mediangradesA.html[/url]”>http://sws2.sas.cornell.edu/our/Student/mediangradesA.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>EDIT: oh cool I just noticed spring 06 is up now…I feel much better about my grades now…</p>

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<p>That list is for last year’s Cornell students.
You have to be a Cornell student with a NetID to view the new list. You can see it if you go to cornell.edu>academics>Knight Institute>FWS>Fall '06 FWS Ballot.</p>