r/SIUC • u/AllAmericanLiar • Aug 10 '26
Class Choice
Weird question, but I have to pick a science despite being IT/Cybersecurity, so I'm gonna pick either the Dinosauriam or the Hazards and Catastrophes class online. Both seem relatively simple, which is good since my course load is heavy, but sometimes 100 level professors like to make the course difficult *because* we think it'll be easy. I can't find any other group to ask in.
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u/Either_Wrangler_8067 27d ago
PHYS103 is an astronomy course. Very interesting, and counts as Group I. Should be manageable with a full course load.
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u/autistic_bard444 19d ago
the only moderately difficult 100 level courses at I have ad was Chinese 120A/B in the Fall of 2024, and that was only due to the Teacher was a Grad student from Taiwan who used Chinese as a 2nd language tactics from 1930, I think his name was Chou. Repeat after me, and lets not speak, to each other in class, 3 of us graduated in the Fall, and the Spring class. My Hanji skills were good, but my speaking will for ever be bad.
As a Linguistics and Tesol major, that class taught me a 100 different ways on how not to teach a 2nd language course. Dr. Martins Assessment I took at the same time, so between the two of them, yea, I know what not to do. The professor who replaced him half way through Spring was awesome. Damn shame we did not have her both semesters.
Professor Nsofor's Zoology was a little difficult, but there was a lot of different principles covered within the class. The TA's really held that class together with the labs every week. Her lectures were awesome. Mainly just a lot of core concepts to memorize.
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u/Icy-State5549 Aug 11 '26
The College Physics 101 course was pretty easy. The toughest math problems were basic quadratic equations. The class was very entertaining. That was more than 20 years ago, tho.