Bump.

I'll give you some guesses and some actual answers.

ENVS 195 - Sounds birdy.
GEOG 100 - All XXX 100 courses will be very, very easy.
GEOG 101 - Same thing applies here.
LS 101 - And here.
REC 100 - And here.
REC 101 - And I imagine here.
SCI 206 - This is a very cute, fun course that's full of demos and Bill Nye-style science. If you're not in a science program, it's a very fun elective.
CS 100 - Super bird course. Teaches you how to use a computer, and gets into MS Office usage. If you're on this forum, I wouldn't bother taking this course. It'd probably be painful.
ACTSC 221 - It has no math prereqs, so I can't imagine it's hard. Here's a midterm with solutions I found online. Looks trivial:
http://www.student.math...._03/docs/221ms2bw03.doc

All in all, I'd guess that these are all extraordinarily birdy courses. Most first year courses, especially in Arts/Environment are pretty trivial. I would recommend looking for slightly more difficult elective courses, to be honest. I think it would be more enjoyable, and you might actually learn something :P

Guessing on what is and is not birdy is not a good idea IMO lol. Might come back to bite you as it did for me :p The only course ive taken on that list is CS 100 a few years ago. Its pretty bad... I learned some things about excel but overall assumes you have 0 experience with a computer.

I am in my final semester enrolled in PHIL 145 Critical Thinking (dont ask why I am in a first year course) and it is a great class to me. It might be hard to appreciate why some things are important though if you dont have any background in in philosophy.

I took ENV but at another university and found it helpful for understanding things like global warming, systems, etc. Not sure if you have checked out the syllabus but they should be online :)

Is this for spring?

^That was me. Not sure why it posted as anon...

Does it have to be a 100 lvl course? Interested in soc sciences?

There are a lot of interesting electives that don't have prerequisites. I'd recommend any of the following, assuming you're willing to put in work...

- Larry Smith's (ONLY THIS SECTION) ECON 101/102 is always a fun elective that requires almost no work so long as you attend class, and should teach you some things. His is always the 7-10pm timeslot on Thursdays.
- Engineering classes can be really fun, particularly with labs, as you get to build things. Take a buildy class!
- If you're interested in any of the fields, look into some of the upper year English/Biology/Philosophy courses. They are often pretty interesting, and usually only have maturity prereqs (sometimes none at all!).

Remember that you can override into courses once you get to university, so you're not stuck with the useless 100-level courses you enroll in so long as you switch within your first two weeks. If you're really interested in a class, talk to the prof and try to override in. (And make sure you attend the class and talk to them in person, rather than emailing them, telling them you're a new first year).

The intro eng courses are a lot of work, but they're not too hard. They're very interesting, so as long as you put in the work, I'm sure you'd find them great. Try to avoid the ones with a lot of stupid computation though... crunching numbers is awful.

Oh yeah, the language courses are also fun electives, though the classes are held at weird times. I'd highly recommend any of the East Asian languages--the department for that is really good, in Renison. Chinese especially. There are also some other interesting languages you could elect to pick up, like Russian or Polish. And of course, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and the other modern languages. (I think Portuguese isn't offered anymore or something?)

The reason I said "only Larry Smith's intro econ" is because the rest of the sections aren't worth taking. They're boring, grindy electives. I'd say a similar thing about those other social sciences above, but maybe I'd biased. Some of the upper year English courses are really interesting, for comparison.

There are some upper year bio courses with no prereqs, surprisingly. In practice, I'm sure you'd need some background in bio to succeed in them, though. Not sure the same applies to chem courses.

Bio 130 is probably the easiest Bio to take as an elective. Bio 140 is easy too, but would probably be on the boring side.
There are a couple basic Chem 100 level courses too, although I haven't looked at them since I can't take them anyway. Avoid Organic Chemistry.

No you are not allowed to take engineering courses, they are pretty much restricted to people in the program only, except for Management science courses (MSCI). You would probably have to ask for an override form from your faculty if you wanted to take an eng course.