<p>What are some good (easy!) non-tech electives for SEAS. I currently have 4 points that i need to fullfil next semester with a non-tech elective and am quite confused about what to take. I’ve already taken lit hum and i dont want to take CC. My non-tech electives so far have been Jack’s silly technology class and BME Ethics. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>if I were you, I’d avoid taking paper classes. Unless your papers are dramatically better than your posts on this board, you’re not going to be guaranteed an A in a paper class. How about:</p>
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<li><p>a language. consider this particularly if you already know the language (high school, native speaker). also, some languages give almost everyone A’s. When I was there, Slavic Languages was notorious for giving out all As.</p></li>
<li><p>econ. if you did well in principles, you should do well in intermediate micro or macro. in those classes, much of the competition is brain-dead CC people who can’t do math ;)</p></li>
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<p>Game Theory was a nontech for me because it was in the econ dept. As an applied math person, everyone else in that class was basically playing checkers while I and some other AM’ers were playing chess. It was almost pathetically easy.</p>
<p>…which is a shame, because I took it out of interest, and legitimately think it’s fascinating stuff - just at a higher level than that class was taught at.</p>
<p>President Bollinger’s class is legitimately fascinating and worth the moderate workload. There’s no paper - it’s a midterm and final - but the class may be Fall-only.</p>
<p>Does Lee Bollinger actually grade his own exams? I’m curious…</p>
<p>the bollinger class is only in the fall…</p>
<p>i need a 4 pt elective to fulfill the requirement which cuts it down significantly and ontop of that i cant take anything that conflicts with my required classes or my tech elective…which i have practically no choice in…</p>
<p>this has been a very disappointing experience…but what the hell did i expect from BME anyway, right?</p>
<p>thanks for the suggestions guys</p>
<p>yeah, BME was your first mistake <em>grin</em></p>
<p>i could find a bunch of history classes that would interest me, but they may not overlap with yours. Sociology as a discipline fascinates me too, maybe there’s some slack there (and the reputation of the department is definitely of the easy-A variety)</p>