gut course

Well that's the gut course, so they are called gut-men.

And it is often viewed as a gut course (though the average grade here is below a B).

It is no place for people who need inflated grades, anonymous lectures and gut courses.

Athletes on many campuses major in staying eligible; the schools help with gut courses and remedial programs that can last for years.

And it was no gut course.

Then he said that astronomy was just a gut course and that his teacher was senile.

He registered for freshman gut courses, devoted an hour a week to them and aced them.

They're very specialized and they're gut courses."

A generation before, the word gut - from the Old English for "bowel" - was a part of college slang as gut course, meaning "easily passed course."

N.C.A.A. rules forbid athletes to be offered perquisites not available to other students (other than full tuition, books, training table, gut courses, term paper ghostwriters and, in some instances, freedom from literacy).

And if school choice is actually adopted, we won't have to worry as much about schools and teachers competing with one another by offering dinosaur exhibits rather than probability lessons, gut courses rather than good ones.

Two years teaching gut courses at junior college because even in an age when they were crying for scientists to teach, she'd discovered, there was a lot of resistance from the older male-dominated science faculties to hiring a young woman.