Super easy and interesting class! Consists of weekly short 500-word writing assignments based on the lecture/reading for the week, a midterm (about 5-7 pages), and a final (6-8 page) essay. Everything is graded pretty leniently as long as you submit something that makes some sense. As long as you watch the lecture and skim through the reading, you will be fine.

This class was one of the best! Light coursework, easy grading
If you need an easy GE, I strongly recommend this course!
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The workload for this class is heavier than it used to be. You are required to write a blog of at least 500 words each week on the readings assigned. You also have to write a 3-5 pages long essay and another one that is 6-8 pages long. Due to the protest this quarter, the due dates for all assignments after week 4 were moved to the Saturday of the finals week. Although there is more work, the grading is still very lenient. The average for the final paper was 29.98/30 and the average for the short essay was 19.64/20. For the weekly blogs, as long you submit something that makes sense, you will get 5/5. I did nearly zero reading in this class and still ended up with an A+. Overall highly recommended.

The hardest part of this class is to be able to enroll in it. If I am not mistaken, this class used to have 100+ seats. Now, the capacity is around 30, making it very difficult to get a seat in this class.

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I liked this class a lot, it was a very easy A and the professor was super cool. The professors office hours weren't very accessible because so many students would attend and you would barely be able to speak, but the office hours weren't very necessary.

This class is incredibly easy. It's not as interesting as people say it is (although the fairy tales were interesting), but reading all the readings was not really necessary and overall was a really light workload of a class. There were two papers, one was about Hrafnkel's Saga and was slightly longer, the other a short-response paper that was basically our "final." There were weekly quizzes that accounted for a majority of the grade (I believe 80%) but they were ridiculously easy (some answers are just very obviously wrong) and not stressful at all. You can also drop your lowest quiz score. They did require you to watch some of his lectures, but I overall got away with not reading every reading.

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I enjoyed taking SCAND 50 but when I took it it was a fully asynchronous class so it might be different than it would be in-person. It was originally supposed to be an in-person class but it was switched to asynchronous right before Week 1. The class consisted of Weekly quizzes on Fridays that were worth 10 points and 2 essays (one due by Week 3 and the other by Week 10) worth 10 points each. The quizzes were pretty easy if you watched the online lectures and the information that Wen went over was really interesting. I learned a TON about Scand literature, something I had never learned about before so that was fun. This class was a easy A and there was no midterm and final so I highly recommend if you are looking for an easy GE and want to learn from an awesome guy.

Could not recommend this class more for someone who is taking tough classes and needs an easy extra 5 units!! Your grade consists of 10 weekly quizzes and two very short (and easily graded) papers. He also drops your lowest quiz score, but the quizzes are kind of a joke and extremely easy as well. Take! This! Class!

Professor Wen is very passionate about what he is talking about but does not force his students to be experts on the topic which I really liked. I enjoyed listening him analyse scandinavian literature but never felt like I had to study and learn them by heart. The weekly quizzes are the main part of your grade and they are very straight forward. If you watch his lectures and skim the readings, you should easily get 10/10 every time. I highly recommend everyone to try to take this class if you can.