06-19-2020, 12:26 PM
I've taken Human Origins, Western Civ, Health &Wellness, Sociology, the self-paced Eng 101, and currently in Astronomy and Human Communication.
To me, Health & Wellness was easy. A good chunk of it is common sense. Western Civ was second-easiest.
Human Origins was a pain because I can't remember from Anthepicanus Africanus and Hippopatumus Rickrollicus and all these genus and species stuff. Goes in one eye and out the other and was just an absolute bore.
If you've taken communications courses or psychology, Sociology is easy. Eng 101 is all self-assessment so it's a grind to put out all the material, but you're grading yourself, so you just make sure you do enough to give yourself full marks.
Western Civ was a breeze for me personally because I'd very recently taken Art history I and II via sophia... a lot of the art and architecture overlap with that quite a bit. I've also long read about ancient Rome and ancient Greece and watched a lot of pre-alien history channel because it's a subject of much interest. As a history buff it's just never not fascinating to me.
To me, Astronomy is by far the hardest. It has the heaviest workload of quizzes and content mastery and extracurricular projects and then those dreaded MATH LABS! (I hate math.) It's really interesting but for me it's a real bear to slog through all the content.
Keep in mind for most of these courses, the quizzes/homework are open book exept for the proctored Final (with only a couple of exceptions.) If you put in the 'legwork' of referencing the material, you can earn a good grade. Also, you can't get less than 100 on each Content Mastery. Those modules repeat by design until you get everything right and are very helpful in prepping for the quizzes most of the time.
There's no upfront cost (currently) and if you do poorly, there's no obligation to put it on your transcript. Sign up for everything and drop what you don't like if that's your style.
It's no-risk, high reward. Try everything and see what you like.
To me, Health & Wellness was easy. A good chunk of it is common sense. Western Civ was second-easiest.
Human Origins was a pain because I can't remember from Anthepicanus Africanus and Hippopatumus Rickrollicus and all these genus and species stuff. Goes in one eye and out the other and was just an absolute bore.
If you've taken communications courses or psychology, Sociology is easy. Eng 101 is all self-assessment so it's a grind to put out all the material, but you're grading yourself, so you just make sure you do enough to give yourself full marks.
Western Civ was a breeze for me personally because I'd very recently taken Art history I and II via sophia... a lot of the art and architecture overlap with that quite a bit. I've also long read about ancient Rome and ancient Greece and watched a lot of pre-alien history channel because it's a subject of much interest. As a history buff it's just never not fascinating to me.
To me, Astronomy is by far the hardest. It has the heaviest workload of quizzes and content mastery and extracurricular projects and then those dreaded MATH LABS! (I hate math.) It's really interesting but for me it's a real bear to slog through all the content.
Keep in mind for most of these courses, the quizzes/homework are open book exept for the proctored Final (with only a couple of exceptions.) If you put in the 'legwork' of referencing the material, you can earn a good grade. Also, you can't get less than 100 on each Content Mastery. Those modules repeat by design until you get everything right and are very helpful in prepping for the quizzes most of the time.
There's no upfront cost (currently) and if you do poorly, there's no obligation to put it on your transcript. Sign up for everything and drop what you don't like if that's your style.
It's no-risk, high reward. Try everything and see what you like.
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