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I know, I know, we all came to Williams to take four to six challenging and rewarding classes every semester. Then we found how much we liked working for the [[Record|newspaper]] or playing a sport or singing [[a capella]] or doing [[Cap and Bells|plays]]. Anyway, sometimes you need an easy fourth course. Let's make a list of guts. '''Please comment only on the size of the workload, and not on the quality of teaching.''' If there's not universal consensus that a course was easy, it would be relevant to mention whether you've had previous coursework in the subject, or if you're just a genius. If you want opinions about the quality of particular professors, please visit [http://wso.williams.edu/Factrak Factrak]. Not to be confused with [[Hard Classes]].
==Easy classes (if you can do math)=Phil 126===
Estimated weekly workload- : 2 hours per a week ===Compsci 105=== workload- 2 hours per week ...As long as you know HTML and Java already. If you don't, those labs take all night. And all night the next night, and all night the next night, and the next night... ===Compsci 134=== Not an easy outside of class per se, but a cinch for anybody who has an easy time in Math 104 or Math 105. There are people who do well in this class who aren't great at Math, but if you ARE good at those Math classes (or higher) you will find this class a breeze. It isn't low work though (3-5 hours per lab), but a great class - and invaluable to anybody who sees a potential future in quantitative work - be it hard or social sciences.
===Econ 110===
:Estimated weekly workload: 0-2 3 hours:Mandatory attendance? No Not easy with Ralph Bradburd., but show up as much as possible
Not easy with Sara LaLumia (but INCREDIBLY rewarding)!
===Phys 100===
Depends on the professor...if you took physics in high school, this shouldn't be much harder. (this is no longer true. don't be fooled) Physics 100 has now been completely overhauled. If you take the class with Prof. Jones be prepared to do a lot of work with relativity with only a brief review of Newtonian Mechanics.
Not easy with Ari Solomon.
===Astronomy 101===
===Math 481: The Big Questions===
Everything is sugary and sweet with Professor Morgan teaching it. It could easily be a nightmare, but was not. :Estimated Workload - About 2 hours per week. Homework was *mostly* easy problems and 'comment' questions where we would comment on something we had to read.
==Easy classes (even if you can't do math)==
:Estimated weekly workload: 0-3 hours
:Mandatory attendance? I don't remember, but it's actually worth going
Edit: One-question quiz at the beginning of each class on a concept from the previous lecture. Easy, easy, easy, but she does keep track/it is some percentage (10?) of your grade, so not a class you can plan on skipping.
===Philosophy 102===
Actually, PHIL 102 is really only an easy class if you are one of those non-major dabbling types who thinks you're just going to talk about "The Matrix" every day. In this case, you will pose a signifcant threat to your classmates' will to live.
I wouldn't call PHIL 102 easy...most professors assign 1-2 short papers a week, and that's a fair amount of writing. The content isn't too hard, but you have to spend at least a few hours a week on the material. Don't take it if you're looking for an easy Div II/Writing Intensive to fulfill requirements. It's not *very* hard, but I would certainly never classify it as an easy class.
Anyone who thinks this is an "easy" class is probably not thinking about the material very deeply.
===English 115===