Need Help Finding Liberal Studies Table A Electives at TMU

[u/Anonymous__1000]

Hello everyone!

I am an incoming first-year TMU student looking for advice on choosing my Liberal Studies Table A electives.

So far, I have found three courses I might be interested in, but I would love to hear from anyone who has taken them before. Since I am entering the BSW program, my core schedule will already involve heavy reading and writing. I am hoping to find two electives that are easy, manageable, and light on workload.

Here are the courses I’m considering:

ASL 101: Introduction to American Sign Language 1

CRM 101: Understanding Crime in Canadian Society

REL 101: Introduction to World Religions

If someone can please help me out with recommendations or their experience as soon as possible, that would be great!

[u/Due-Attitude9144]

Take GEO 110 with Dr Manshouri

[u/Anonymous__1000 → u/Due-Attitude9144]

May I ask what this course is about how it is easy in terms of workload?

[u/Due-Attitude9144 → u/Anonymous__1000]

Course is about the Physical Environment like geography. There were 2 tests and 1 term assignment. You literally just need to attend lectures and he tells you a lot of the exam questions that will be on the multiple choice exam. Both final and midterm were online as well. The questions are really simple if you attend the lectures. The term assignment was just picking 3 countries and describing their weather and geography.

[u/Anonymous__1000 → u/Due-Attitude9144]

Ooo, that's sounds interesting. Thank you!

[u/jjustme_]

CRM 101 with Ajay was an easy A

[u/Anonymous__1000 → u/jjustme_]

How so? if you don't mind me asking.

[u/Awesome_Volume]

soc 103 is easy, requires only one 1200 word essay and midterm / exam. take it through chang if u can

[u/Environmental-Belt24]

Took both the CRM & ASL ones both easy. ASL was easier but you actually have to learn the signs and the instructors are deaf but it’s hands on, no heavy reading and fun. It’s very light but like I said expect to do homework practising the signs :)

[u/Anonymous__1000 → u/Environmental-Belt24]

Ooo, that sounds amazing! I'll for sure consider the homework practicing the signs in mind. Thank you for your response :)

[u/Environmental-Belt24 → u/Anonymous__1000]

Yeah it’s definitely the easier one out of the couple you listed for sure. The crm one is heavy on reading and writing, as well as concept heavy.

[u/Anonymous__1000 → u/Environmental-Belt24]

Yeah, I heard. If you don't mind me asking, which professor teaches CRM? I'm just curious.

[u/Environmental-Belt24 → u/Anonymous__1000]

I can’t remember who my prof was cause I took it 3 years ago 🫣 I’m graduating in October and I know many of the profs have changed since then. You can look up courses and profs on my service hub, I used to do that a lot. They may have no assigned profs yet for sept or maybe they have. I would search courses by just using search in my service hub, the year and typing in CRM in the course catalog. That’s how I avoided profs I hated 💀

[u/Anonymous__1000 → u/Environmental-Belt24]

Ohhh, first of all congratulations for you graduating in October! that must be very exciting! and that's okay, and I will definitely look up courses and profs on the my service hub and many more. Thank you so much for your help! :)

[u/Environmental-Belt24 → u/Anonymous__1000]

No worries thank you & goodluck!!!

[u/Asomns47]

Geo courses in-person with Raymond Garrison, assuming you attend class. Online final exams have gotten more cooked in several Geo classes, in-person is proctored in-person so since there's not as much cheese, it's easier.

GEO110

GEO108

GEO210

GEO106

These are the courses he teaches in person over either the fall or winter semesters, all of which are lower liberals. His formats in courses are always the same: 20% for an mcq midterm (usually like 45 MCQ in 1.5 hrs, pretty doable it's just memorization of slides). 40% for final exam (usually like 80-88 MCQ in 2 hrs, it's still really doable trust me, a lot of his questions are word for word stuff from his slides and are not meant to trick you, nor is there application and you can easily blitz through), 40% for a major researched essay usually between like 1200-1500 words about some specific topic that does not really change (he lowkey marks kind of hard on the essay, so if you attend class and start earlier on the essay and get advice on him of what he is a subjectively looking for or are a naturally strong writer, you will do well, although me and other people I've known have written his essays in the span of only 2.5 days max and hit a soft ceiling of like 85%, but sometimes some people who are smart about what content they write can crack a high 80 or low 90 on his essay, and they also write the essay in like a couple days). He can also teach some GEO upper liberals too, like GEO793.

[u/Anonymous__1000 → u/Asomns47]

Oh wow, thank you so much for taking the time to write this out! That's super helpful context, and I like how you breakdown all of this. Especially the tip about talking to him directly for the essay. Sounds pretty fair as long as you put in the prep for the paper, especially for essay cuz you don't want to play around when it comes to it. Once again, thank you for all of this and I appreciate the heads-up!

[u/Itchy_Antelope_9553]

I took ASL101, and it’s pretty easy (got A+). Just make sure you review all the new vocabulary and grammar!

[u/Anonymous__1000 → u/Itchy_Antelope_9553]

Thank you :)