Easiest Breadth?

[Russ]

But next semester I'm doing Plato to Einstein, I need to do something that's stimulating. Over the summer semester I'm doing Business Finance and I will do Intermediate Personal Finance next year (well if I pass Introductory Personal Finance).   

Plato to Einstein is good, but it suffers from the same problem as Philosophy/History of Science, namely that you will either love or hate the different segments. But overall it's a pretty good breadth choice (start your final essay EARLY, studying for science exams and writing an essay at the same time is horrible)

[laynie]

Completely agree with Russ.
I did Darwinism last semester, which is under History and Philosophy of Science. Some topics were pretty interesting and I was really captivated, but overall it was a relatively boring, low paced subject where you could chill aside from the week the assignments are due on. Also, no exam (Assignment 1 was 35% and 2 was 65%) meant you got to focus on your other subjects during exam period too.

[Sah123]

Does anyone have any experience with music breadth subjects? I was all of a sudden considering Choir or Great Opera Choruses and would like to know what others think

[Massofbubbles]

Ecological History of Humanity was insanely easy imo.

I put in about 30mins to 1hour each week on the blogs. 2-3 hours on the tute paper, and two days on the research assignment. Ended up with 88 - and I've never been a good writer.. Didn't have to listen to one lecture, do any of the weekly readings, or contribute in any of the tutes (you get 10% just for attendance).

Not sure if it's only semester 1 though.

[rustic_metal]

This.

[Edmund]

This.

Yep I'm doing that this semester

[dptjandra]

I did a University Breadth (critical thinking with data) which was quite easy.  A large proportion of it was stuff like, "Don't trust internet surveys - they can be dodgy."  Be warned - I found large chunks of it very boring.  Though I think I just expected to learn too much from it.

[rustic_metal]

This.

Yep I'm doing that this semester

Same. Such a joke haha.

[simpak]

This.

Yep I'm doing that this semester

As if that is a subject.  I want to do it.

[Blakhitman]

This.

Yep I'm doing that this semester

As if that is a subject.  I want to do it.

why don't you?

[murano]

This.

54 contact hours, so 4.5 per week? Anyone actually doing this subject want to confirm from their timetables?

Any other ideas for an easy breadth? Currently have finance 1 down but the lectures/tutes aren't really suiting my timetable. Had it too good last semester with principles of business law, 1 lecture per week that I never went to and all multiple choice tests for assessment. So easy.

[jacob_power]

Why would anyone want to choose all the easy breaths?

Where's the challenge in that?

People should choose something interesting instead of "picking" any old thing which seems easy at first however really actually a demanding/boring subject.

Also, you paid all this money for uni, you might as well pick the most complex and interesting.

[Russ]

Yeah I agree, I've never taken breadth because it's "easy"

[mikee65]

Russ you're the paragon of academic integrity

[murano]

Why would anyone want to choose all the easy breaths?

Where's the challenge in that?

That's the point, some of us don't want a challenge. For most of us, our breadth subjects are pointless so why not pick an easy subject to boost our GPA and give us more time to study for the subjects that are important.