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Easiest Courses at CU Boulder

50 CU Boulder courses ranked by student-reported difficulty from FCQ data. Lower scores mean easier workloads.

Ranked course list

  1. THTR 3033: Production Research and Practicum: Acting
    41 FCQ responses · 16 sections
    Easy
  2. #2
    HEBR 3010: Third Year Modern Hebrew, First Semester
    35 FCQ responses · 6 sections
    Easy
  3. #3
    CLAS 4269: Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East: Achaemenid Persian Empire
    32 FCQ responses · 5 sections
    Easy
  4. #4
    MATH 4230: Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces
    33 FCQ responses · 3 sections
    Easy
  5. #5
    EBIO 4360: Lifestyle Medicine
    35 FCQ responses · 4 sections
    Easy
  6. #6
    ITAL 1050: Fast-Track Italian
    73 FCQ responses · 10 sections
    Easy
  7. #7
    ANTH 4130: Advanced Osteology
    26 FCQ responses · 4 sections
    Easy
  8. #8
    ASEN 4138: Aircraft Design
    61 FCQ responses · 6 sections
    Easy
  9. #9
    EBIO 3010: Teaching Biology: General Biology
    138 FCQ responses · 43 sections
    Easy
  10. #10
    SLHS 4576: Communication Neuroscience
    104 FCQ responses · 8 sections
    Easy
  11. #11
    EMUS 3297: Wind Symphony
    79 FCQ responses · 12 sections
    Easy
  12. #12
    CVEN 4353: Groundwater Engineering
    63 FCQ responses · 6 sections
    Easy
  13. #13
    GEOG 4241: Earth Surface Processes
    44 FCQ responses · 21 sections
    Easy
  14. #14
    ENLP 3000: Intelligent Leadership
    124 FCQ responses · 16 sections
    Easy
  15. #15
    EDUC 2919: Renewing Democracy in Communities and Schools
    51 FCQ responses · 15 sections
    Easy
  16. #16
    MUSC 1081: Basic Music Theory
    47 FCQ responses · 5 sections
    Easy
  17. #17
    ATOC 4750: Desert Meteorology and Climate
    19 FCQ responses · 2 sections
    Easy
  18. #18
    LATN 1024: Beginning Latin 2
    67 FCQ responses · 12 sections
    Easy
  19. #19
    BADM 2010: Excel in Business
    337 FCQ responses · 35 sections
    Easy
  20. #20
    RUSS 3010: Third-Year Russian 1
    58 FCQ responses · 6 sections
    Easy
  21. #21
    HUMN 3200: Fictions of Illness: Modern Medicine and the Literary Imagination
    81 FCQ responses · 4 sections
    Easy
  22. #22
    CMDP 3860: Sonic Arts I
    24 FCQ responses · 5 sections
    Easy
  23. #23
    APRD 3501: Creative Design Software 2
    18 FCQ responses · 7 sections
    Easy
  24. #24
    LATN 2114: Intermediate Latin 1
    49 FCQ responses · 11 sections
    Easy
  25. #25
    SPAN 4980: Methods Language Learn/Pedagogy
    20 FCQ responses · 4 sections
    Easy
  26. #26
    CLAS 3019: Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius
    123 FCQ responses · 20 sections
    Easy
  27. #27
    IPHY 3415: Human Anatomy Laboratory
    679 FCQ responses · 147 sections
    Easy
  28. #28
    WRTG 2095: Ideas for Social Change
    59 FCQ responses · 6 sections
    Easy
  29. #29
    PMUS 3726: Voice
    41 FCQ responses · 28 sections
    Easy
  30. #30
    EDUC 4060: Classroom Interactions
    86 FCQ responses · 11 sections
    Easy
  31. #31
    DNCE 4038: Dance & Performance
    14 FCQ responses · 5 sections
    Easy
  32. #32
    MDST 4931: Internship
    14 FCQ responses · 12 sections
    Easy
  33. #33
    CSCI 2897: Calculating Biological Quantities
    50 FCQ responses · 7 sections
    Easy
  34. #34
    ASEN 4067: Microavionics: Introduction to PIC Microcontrollers for Aerospace Systems
    22 FCQ responses · 4 sections
    Easy
  35. #35
    FNCE 4840: Personal Financial Plan Development Capstone
    157 FCQ responses · 11 sections
    Easy
  36. #36
    MCDB 4444: Cellular Basis of Disease
    139 FCQ responses · 11 sections
    Easy
  37. #37
    EMUS 3517: Campus Orchestra
    349 FCQ responses · 23 sections
    Easy
  38. #38
    PSCI 3101: Black Politics
    26 FCQ responses · 2 sections
    Easy
  39. #39
    CMDP 4750: Virtual Reality
    38 FCQ responses · 6 sections
    Easy
  40. #40
    DNCE 3005: Dance and Injury Risk Reduction
    75 FCQ responses · 6 sections
    Easy
  41. #41
    GEOG 4201: Biometeorology
    60 FCQ responses · 7 sections
    Easy
  42. #42
    ATLS 4809: Computer Animation
    23 FCQ responses · 4 sections
    Easy
  43. #43
    HIST 4081: The Roman Republic
    78 FCQ responses · 12 sections
    Easy
  44. #44
    ARTS 4934: Art, Design, and Engineering: Thinking and Making
    23 FCQ responses · 6 sections
    Easy
  45. #45
    PMUS 4706: Violin
    14 FCQ responses · 8 sections
    Easy
  46. #46
    HUMN 3210: Narrative
    80 FCQ responses · 5 sections
    Easy
  47. #47
    EMEN 4405: Systems Engineering
    137 FCQ responses · 12 sections
    Easy
  48. #48
    JRNL 4920: Seminar in Honors Writing & Research
    45 FCQ responses · 8 sections
    Easy
  49. #49
    APRD 2006: Creative Design Software
    1004 FCQ responses · 110 sections
    Easy
  50. #50
    NRSC 4072: Clinical Neuroscience: A Clinical and Pathological Perspective
    403 FCQ responses · 16 sections
    Easy

Difficulty scores are drawn from the CU Boulder Faculty Course Questionnaire and Bayesian-smoothed to account for small sample sizes. Only courses with at least 10 responses are included.

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