Easy Frosh Courses

cellist
Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:24:51 +0000

Hum, sosc, and civ classes mostly depend on your instructor. There’s no widely accepted easiest sequence.

If you’re definitely not doing a science or math major, you can take easy classes for physical sciences. Any sequence with a PHSC course number is pretty easy, particularly the Global Warming sequences.

For biology, the Metabolism sequence is the easiest.

I probably wouldn’t take an easier math class than you place into since you’re an econ major.

If you still need to fulfill your foreign language requirement, a first-year Romance language is your best bet (depending on your background).

For arts, visual arts classes tend to be time consuming. Theater classes are fun if that’s your thing. Art history classes are easy in the sense that you’re mostly doing what you’re used to in other classes (doing readings and writing papers).

For any of these, evaluations.uchicago.edu is a good resource once you have your CNET ID. The section “How many hours per week did you spend on this course?” is particularly helpful.



I was kind of just hoping to get all my core classes out of the way as fast as possible and work towards a major/possible double major ASAP.

It depends on what you want to double major in. If you want to pair econ with a sciencey/mathy major (which I strongly discourage), you need to spread out the core more and get started on that major your first year because the prereqs stack up quickly. If it’s something more humanities-oriented I wouldn’t worry about it.