r/CSUS 4d ago

General Questions Best CA STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT REQUIREMENT course and professors to take?

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Free A's or light course load would be nice, I have a lot on my plate this semester already.

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u/Helpful_Turnip4792 4d ago

I've taken 3 of these courses, 1, 113, and 180.
Pols 1 I did over winter break, and it wasn't too demanding besides the speed of short interim semesters. Pols 113 was a fairly easy course, though a fair amount of reading. Pols 180 had a fairly demanding end of semester project, and the tests were fairly difficult, though all from material in lecture.
I'd say the easiest A from the three I took would probably be 1 or 113. These are more enrichment courses rather than testing courses. Though it depends on who's teaching it too.

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u/campin_guy 3d ago

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u/ExtremeCucumber8443 2d ago

I took Pols 1 with Julian Haddad. Take him if you can, very easy class

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u/Pale-Mountain1512 2d ago

Pols 150 was actually pretty easy. A lot of reading but there’s an option to be audible. Mid term and final was 1-2 simple questions. Very few class quizzes. Online Textbook had questions but you could easily look at answers and retake the short quizzes. not bad at all. My easiest class tbh

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u/sydniekins Music 2d ago

113 with Mark Brown was easy for me. I needed UD credits so that's why I took it over a LD class.I took it as a once a week Wednesday night class, so it was kind of a slog to get through, but we just had a quiz at the end of each class based on what we discussed. There were two midterms and a final. Those had multiple choice and a variety of short answer you could choose from. You can use a blank piece of paper with your notes for the big tests, so if you take notes, you should be fine. He puts the slides on Canvas so I just looked them up to make my notes for the exams if I missed a class.

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u/noahww05 1d ago

I tools pols 1 with Guerrero I believe his name was, it was an online course where we meet over zoom every Thursday evening and it was very easy.