<p>I need 2 very easy-A Gen Eds for the next semester. How hard are:</p>
<p>SPA 101 - Elementary Spanish I (I have never studied Spanish)
&
ANT 221 - Introduction to Folklore ? </p>
<p>Are they time consuming ? Can I get easy A’s in the 2 courses spending minimum time for them? Thanks.</p>
<p>Shouldn’t you post this in a specific college forum?</p>
<p>No one here will really know unless they go to your particular school.</p>
<p>They don’t sound particularly difficult to me, but it’ll depend on you. I know at my school language courses can be time-consuming, especially if you’ve never studied the language before, but Spanish isn’t a huge leap away from English.</p>
<p>Yeah, no one will know unless we go to your school. Each class is different, lol. Like my ANT221 like advanced biological anthropology studies or something.</p>
<p>I’ve found that even the easiest classes (topic-wise) can be a hard A just because of the professor. Likewise, a hard class (topic wise) can be made very easy because of the professor.</p>
<p>I would advise going to ratemyprof for the teachers before choosing.</p>
<p>a beginning language class in college, especially if you’ve never taken the language, can be tough. You’ll cover the equivalent of 2 years of high school Spanish in 4 months. Expect 2hours-2 1/2 hours prep for each class meeting, and you may still be pulling a B. The first month will be time consuming but very easy. However the danger is being easily satisfied then: if you slack off and don’t know <em>everything</em> by heart, you’ll be in trouble, since everything is cumulative, and it goes so fast that you’ll soon fall behind.</p>
<p>Find your school’s sub-forum and ask there.</p>
<p>Comments on ratemyrpofessors say SPA 101 is extremely easy. Should I believe them ?</p>
<p>From my experiences, ratemyprof does not lie. I always use it when choosing classes and so far it is accurate in how easy/hard or bad/good a professor is. </p>
<p>Of course, you’ll have to judge for yourself. If a teacher only has one good comment, I’d probably take it with a grain of salt and google them some more.</p>
<p>Ratemyprofessor can be hit or miss. In my experience, it’s usually fairly accurate. I’d usually trust it more if a bunch of people are saying it’s really easy. If people are saying it’s really hard, you’ve gotta figure that it’s because of their own lack of effort in many cases. </p>
<p>You’re better off asking people around campus that have taken the same class, but it can be a good reference. I always check there when I’m selecting my classes.</p>
<p>When a lot of people say that a class is very easy, it usually is.</p>
<p>When everyone says it’s hard, it’s important to read the comments and try to figure out if what they consider hard would be hard for you.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. I think SPA 101 is going to be very easy. Unfortunately, I did not get any comments about ‘ANT 221-Introduction to Folklore’ on ratemyprofessors. I know It depends on my college but, i at least need to know from your experience how hard/easy YOU THINK this course is because I have absolutely no idea. I will have to drop this one and take easier one if It may be hard.</p>
<p>The second one sounds easy. The first is iffy: it really depends on how good you are at languages, though I’d be hard pressed to find a language with the combination of material availability and general easiness that Spanish offers. If you just need a gen-ed, though, foreign languages are often required so you’ll have to take one sometime.</p>
<p>If I had to guess, I would think an introduction to folklore class would be relatively easy. It also sounds like a really cool class. There’s likely to be a decent amount of reading involved, and possible some writing. Beyond that, I really couldn’t tell ya. And I might be completely wrong about it.</p>
<p>never take language classes for easy grades. That’s all im going to tell you.</p>
<p>^This. Language classes can hugely vary in difficulty depending on the teacher.</p>
<p>Check out the reviews for those classes at rate my professor.</p>