<p>I would like to know which classes offered at UT are frequently known as “effortless As” or “gpa-boosts”. with very little reading, very few assignments and time commitment outside of class.</p>
<p>*edit: Also, does anyone know whether “SPN 601D INTRODUCTORY SPANISH” for a non-native, new learner, would fit into the category?</p>
<p>A little more about myself</p>
<p>I am currently a second-year Engineering Honors student and have tons of credits (AP/IB) from high school accumulated that I have nothing but extremely difficult technical courses to fill up my spring semester schedule with. To make a long story short, at first I was proud to be taking a bunch of highly-challenging, intense courses relevant to my major while a lot of my friends and other peers were still working on their general requirements. I think in some ways this was good, but I had a hard time making those “top” grades since the honors engineering classes were definitely very challenging.</p>
<p>My goal is to go into graduate school after graduating, and I understand that grad schools place a high emphasis on GPA (along with other criteria such as research). The spring semester registration period is coming up this Monday, and I would like to know what my options are. I am not looking forward to filling up my schedule entirely with easy classes, just to boost my GPA. I don’t believe in that. But I do need a few guaranteed As in order to balance out my GPA (and to use that extra time leftover to focus on research projects). Thanks in advance for any input</p>
<p>Spanish, especially 6 hours of it a week, is most certainly NOT a “GPA-boosting” class unless languages are your strong point. I know plenty of people who just couldn’t get it and did terribly in that class. I actually placed out of 601 and 610D, but from what I’m told you have homework pretty much every night in those classes. </p>
<p>That said, I took GRG 305 - Human Geography my first semester last year - HORRIBLE professor but an effortless A.</p>
<p>Spanish at UT is the exact opposite of an easy A. It really lives up to its 6 credit hour label. I was planning on taking it here until I discovered the 0-7% A-rate. That’s right, some teachers didn’t give a single A to their entire class…</p>
<p>On the other hand, if medicine interests you then Medical Terminology (C C 306M) is pretty straightforward. It’s a ~100 word vocab quiz every other week with half the words being recognizable to anyone who’s taken a few biology classes before.</p>
<p>Yeah, I heard that even the basic Spanish is <em>hard</em> at UT. frever, are you referring to the most introductory Spanish class?</p>
<p>Anyways, are there more classes anyone would like to suggest? :D</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know if all the GRG courses are pretty much the same in terms of difficulty?</p>
<p>I’m referring to the Spanish program at UT as a whole</p>
<p>If you’re looking for an easy class this semester, I would recommend SW 360K with World Religions. It’s an online class and when I took it the summer, all of the tests were online. It was extremely interesting also :-)</p>
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GRG should vary quite a bit because you have blow-off classes like Human Geo and Meteorology, but you also have classes like environmental science that could be kind of challenging if you don’t keep up. In any event, I would say a LOT depends on the professor.</p>
<p>buriedalie, just to make sure, was the class you took called “GRG 305 THIS HUMAN WORLD: INTRO TO GRG”? (It’s taught by Tretter in the next semester).</p>
<p>I couldn’t find a GRG 305: Human Geography that you mentioned earlier…</p>
<p>Yup, it’s “This Human World.” The subject itself is human geography.</p>