Hey Jean
As someone who just did what you're planning to do, my advice would be to just choose the subjects that you think will really grip you and you'll really want to know more about. The good thing about Uni is that there's an incredible amount of niche areas that will really draw you in. For example, my sister is basically "I don't know what I want to do, I just know that I don't want to do anything ever", until we went through the subject list and she saw "Holocaust Studies" as an area of study (she's fascinated by it). I can see her googling her subject content and then some. Stuff like this will make everything easy.
For example, in my first semester I didn't even plan on doing Law at all. I just chose subjects that looked interesting (because the vast majority looked horrendous). Life, Death and Morality (Philosophy Intro A) looked really interesting, so I put that down. Human Rights Theory mentioned asylum seekers and other questions of justice (which I'm particularly interested in) and then I put Lit because I was like "may as well continue with English after all these years". I also picked Psychology because I figured I'd get a good grade without doing anything. The former two I loved to pieces, and the latter two were just not fun at all. I felt like I put close to zero effort in for Philosophy, but that's not true. Whilst I didn't take notes or anything like that, I blogged about the stuff we were learning about because I was fascinated by it. In fact, the exam structure was like, we had to answer 8 short answer questions, and they gave us 17 questions before the exam, 8 of which would be on the exam. Obviously you could just prepare dot point answers for all of them and be really prepared but that would have bored me. I still got like a 90 or something like that for Philosophy, and someone else would say that I did zero study, whereas I in fact just studied in my mind lol.
I mean... Academic writing? Sounds so horrible and I've only looked at the title. Imagine just going to classes for that for a whole semester, and paying five hundred bucks for it. Fuck that. (That said, I know someone who took academic writing and it improved their writing, but for me personally I assume it wouldn't be
that valuable).
Besides that, many first year Arts subjects are pretty easy. In comparison to high-school (my high-school, at least), they kinda make it really simple to do well in.
Philosophy A (Life, Death, Morality) is a really easy unit anyway, and I think you're interesting in Phil so I would definitely recommend. You can find my evaluation of the unit which will give you more info in the Monash subject review thread.
Human Rights Theory 1 was also insanely interesting for me (pretty philosophy based), however I think it's probably a little bit more difficult than some other subjects. The reading load is a bit more, and some of the content in Week 11-12 gets a little bit "uhhh. ohhh.. hmmm.. huh... uhh.. oh wait, yeah, I get it" (in comparison to "yeah, I get it).
If you did Psych in VCE, which I don't think you did(?), Psychology A is also easy as it's basically Units 1-4. Even if you didn't, it's a multi-choice exam worth 50%, and 15% of the unit is multi-choice quizzes. So it's not easy in the sense that you can do no work and score well, but it's easy in the sense that all's you have to do is know the content and you score well.
I wouldn't recommend Literature if your aim is to score highly across the board.
But yeah that's my spiel for today. Like, I think my friend said that Sociology is really easy but even the thought of studying it makes me want to cry, so I wouldn't do it ever ever ever. Trust me, if you scroll down the list you'll see Areas of Study/Subjects that make you go "OMFG THAT SOUNDS SO INTERESTING" - just look for four of those subjects and do them.
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