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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===
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===