Stat 101 (Intro to Statistics) is easy, workload: 4 assignments (5% each), midterm + final - allowed one piece of paper with anything written on it. Very basic stats stuff, the first half of the book is common sense and grade 11/12 math.
Kin 105 (Human Anatomy & Function or something) is fairly easy, weekly quizzes (10% total), 4 assignments (about 20% or a bit more), midterm for first half of the course, final for second half (not cumulative) VERY easy for people who have taken Bisc 101, or even remember ANYTHING from bio 11/12
Kin 110 (Nutrition) is not so easy... the actual information you're tested on is simple if you keep up with the work, but there's a lot that isn't common sense and is difficult to be interested in... (i.e. serving sizes of the Canadian Food Guide, recommended daily intake of carbohydrates, best foods to get omega-3 fatty acids from, psychological factors in anorexia, etc.) workload: weekly quizzes (worth about 10% of mark), 2 midterms + 1 final, dietary analysis (worth 20%? 10%?, where you compare your own eating habits to what you /should/ be eating, according to your calculations based on the textbook for your weight, height, age, etc.)
Kin 140 (Contemporary Health Issues) is VERY easy, mostly common sense about what is happening in society today, the textbook IS the study guide that they give you, memorize it and you're set. (i.e. don't kiss someone who has a cold, physical activity is good for you, etc.) Workload: 3 or 4 assignments (10% EACH), midterm + final
Cmns 110 (Introduction to Communications)... if you're not an Arts student (I don't pretend to know what it's like to be an Arts student, or how that might change your ability to think, but I know that a mainly Science student like myself did have difficulty thinking in creative new ways here...), or someone who can philosophically bullshit their way out of more bullshit, DON'T TAKE THIS COURSE. My retard friends convinced me that it was the most wonderful course (+ easiest course) they've ever had had the pleasure of acquainting themselves with... but after the first month & some disappointing grades, I tracked them down and found out that the best grade they had received between themselves was... a B+. (They were genuinely happy with it, too.) But that is NOT my definition of an EASY course. Marking by the TA's is quite subjective; you submit rambling in essay-form and hope that it conveys some understanding of the stab-my-eyes-out BORING books they make you read (for my semester, No Sense of Place by Joshua Meyrowitz, and Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, the latter of which doesn't look so bad after the torture of the former). workload: one-essay assignment (10%), midterm (2 essays, 30% total), one book review (of one of the 'textbooks', the two books mentioned above, 30%), final (30%). Yes, the final & the midterm are essay-topics released to you a week before the actual date, the final you write at school but you can bring ANY printed material with you, so they basically expect you to write out all of the essays and then re-copy them at school in the exam, unless you're completely stupid, in which case you deserve to fail anyways. But the material is mostly stuff like... oh, why we act the way we do, why we think the social norms placed on society by popular media (i.e. television, radio) are more /true/ or important than the conclusions that we draw ourselves from face-to-face interactions, how said popular media has affected our lives, etc.
That said, Stat 101 is scaled. The three Kin's (105, 110, 140) are NOT. (P.S. Disappointing marks in 110 especially if you're not interested in it... I got a full 3.5 standard deviations over the average on the midterm, which means that I should've been UP THERE in terms of marking against the class... but it's not scaled, which means I get the measly 75% that I scored... *grumble*) Cmns 110 is... not scaled. I think. No one's mentioned anything about scaling, but I'll be rather surprised if it IS.
can you tell me more about it? workload.. midterm.. final.. assignments..
CRIM 131:
Workload - 2 short papers and one term paper. That's it. It almost feels like you're not even taking the course because all you really need to do is write a paper every few weeks. Then again, a lot of arts courses are like this so that might not be anything new. You also have to post to an online message board once a week for 10% of your grade.
Midterm - none
Final - Very easy, high school-ish final. If you read the book (400 pages with large text and pictures), it's impossible to fail.
Content - Dry and boring. I can't stand criminology. It's about how the justice system functions.
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anyway i can tell you what not to take, dont take psych 280 ;)
kin 143 is supposed to be ace
sociological theory i think its called or something along those lines
258 maybe? lol
did you take kin 143 via distance? anyone knows the workload, easiness of midterm/final/assignments?
Very basic stats stuff, the first half of the book is common sense and grade 11/12 math.
Kin 105 (Human Anatomy & Function or something) is fairly easy, weekly quizzes (10% total), 4 assignments (about 20% or a bit more), midterm for first half of the course, final for second half (not cumulative)
VERY easy for people who have taken Bisc 101, or even remember ANYTHING from bio 11/12
Kin 110 (Nutrition) is not so easy... the actual information you're tested on is simple if you keep up with the work, but there's a lot that isn't common sense and is difficult to be interested in... (i.e. serving sizes of the Canadian Food Guide, recommended daily intake of carbohydrates, best foods to get omega-3 fatty acids from, psychological factors in anorexia, etc.)
workload: weekly quizzes (worth about 10% of mark), 2 midterms + 1 final, dietary analysis (worth 20%? 10%?, where you compare your own eating habits to what you /should/ be eating, according to your calculations based on the textbook for your weight, height, age, etc.)
Kin 140 (Contemporary Health Issues) is VERY easy, mostly common sense about what is happening in society today, the textbook IS the study guide that they give you, memorize it and you're set. (i.e. don't kiss someone who has a cold, physical activity is good for you, etc.)
Workload: 3 or 4 assignments (10% EACH), midterm + final
Cmns 110 (Introduction to Communications)... if you're not an Arts student (I don't pretend to know what it's like to be an Arts student, or how that might change your ability to think, but I know that a mainly Science student like myself did have difficulty thinking in creative new ways here...), or someone who can philosophically bullshit their way out of more bullshit, DON'T TAKE THIS COURSE.
My retard friends convinced me that it was the most wonderful course (+ easiest course) they've ever had had the pleasure of acquainting themselves with... but after the first month & some disappointing grades, I tracked them down and found out that the best grade they had received between themselves was... a B+. (They were genuinely happy with it, too.)
But that is NOT my definition of an EASY course.
Marking by the TA's is quite subjective; you submit rambling in essay-form and hope that it conveys some understanding of the stab-my-eyes-out BORING books they make you read (for my semester, No Sense of Place by Joshua Meyrowitz, and Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, the latter of which doesn't look so bad after the torture of the former).
workload: one-essay assignment (10%), midterm (2 essays, 30% total), one book review (of one of the 'textbooks', the two books mentioned above, 30%), final (30%).
Yes, the final & the midterm are essay-topics released to you a week before the actual date, the final you write at school but you can bring ANY printed material with you, so they basically expect you to write out all of the essays and then re-copy them at school in the exam, unless you're completely stupid, in which case you deserve to fail anyways.
But the material is mostly stuff like... oh, why we act the way we do, why we think the social norms placed on society by popular media (i.e. television, radio) are more /true/ or important than the conclusions that we draw ourselves from face-to-face interactions, how said popular media has affected our lives, etc.
That said, Stat 101 is scaled.
The three Kin's (105, 110, 140) are NOT.
(P.S. Disappointing marks in 110 especially if you're not interested in it... I got a full 3.5 standard deviations over the average on the midterm, which means that I should've been UP THERE in terms of marking against the class... but it's not scaled, which means I get the measly 75% that I scored... *grumble*)
Cmns 110 is... not scaled. I think. No one's mentioned anything about scaling, but I'll be rather surprised if it IS.
Hope that helps...? ^_^
Workload - 2 short papers and one term paper. That's it. It almost feels like you're not even taking the course because all you really need to do is write a paper every few weeks. Then again, a lot of arts courses are like this so that might not be anything new. You also have to post to an online message board once a week for 10% of your grade.
Midterm - none
Final - Very easy, high school-ish final. If you read the book (400 pages with large text and pictures), it's impossible to fail.
Content - Dry and boring. I can't stand criminology. It's about how the justice system functions.
Again, take CRIM 131 in person with Martin Bouchard, you will find it interesting.