<p>Completely changed my FWS choices when I saw this. </p>
<p>Some courses had one lecture a week, i.e ‘TR’, whereas some were ‘MWF’. Is there a reason for this?</p>
<p>Because the TR classes meet for 75 minutes and the MWF classes meet for 50 minutes.</p>
<p>@mikey</p>
<p>still works out to half the lesson time of MWF</p>
<p>TR means tuesday/thursday
MWF means monday/wednesday/friday</p>
<p>75 minutes on TR = 150 minutes
50 minutes of MWF = 150 minutes</p>
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<p>^ Hopefully you’ll stick with humanities 
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<p>ETA: Nevermind, now I see that you thought “TR” was only one day when it’s really two.</p>
<p>There is a very large difference in FWS difficulty but it stems from the courses themselves rather than their times.</p>
<p>What others mentioned are true, a FWS course being on tuesdays/Thursdays or MWF doesnt indicate anything on difficulty whatsoever. However there is one basic indicator- whether it’s English Dept/course or not. If it’s in the ENglish dept then it will highly likely be rigorous with much more work. If it’s any other dept it shouldn’t be nearly as bad (such as I’m balloting for FWS’ in NTRES, BIOEE, and EAS.) So if you are balloting for an English dept FWS but dont want to go through the heavy coursework of a class from this dept. u may want to change ur balloted courses.</p>
<p>FWS is a minefield. What you can be 90% sure of though is that as he said, English department courses are going to be a huge pain. There are still significant amounts of “huge pain” FWSs out there outside of the English department though, but at a lower %.</p>
<p>FWS are usually taught by grad students and can be hit or miss. I was lucky that one of my FWS was taught by a professor, though it was the first class he ever taught (he ended up being awesome though and I took other classes from him eventually).</p>
<p>Sorry for the quick hijack, but it’s related.</p>
<p>ENGL 1168 - Cultural Studies: Zombies! Seems SUPER interesting/fun to me, as a FWS. It’s about, well, zombies. I signed up for it first on my ballot because that sounds awesome! I read the description, it has oral presentations etc, but now you guys are all saying the English FWS are generally more difficult, so I’m cautious.</p>
<p>All of the English seminars aren’t that bad right?</p>
<p>Bad is not the equivalent of difficult. Probably the most worthwhile classes you’ll take are difficult. I can’t speak to that class specifically, but in general, with an English department FWS, you can expect it to have more work. FWS have a minimal set of guidelines and I think it’s fair to say most seminars are at/near the minimum (I think it’s like 6 essays and at least 2 have to be more than 5 pages or something like that). I would not expect that with the English department (nor should you since it’s the English department!). Reading load can also vary by seminar.</p>
<p>Yeah I know, I meant to say more intense workload-wise etc. I think I’ll take it anyway because I’m a sucker for zombies, I don’t see how this class could possibly NOT be worth the risk of extra work lol.</p>
<p>Meh, so it’ll be more work (probably). Not a big deal. And I figure with the English department, you probably have a much better chance of getting an instructor who can really help advance your writing abilities. Definitely useful for most majors (and a good life school in general no matter who you are).</p>
<p>A great way to look at it, thanks again for your input/help!</p>