Theoretically, the work load should be the same for any topics that have the same number of units. So if you were tossing up between 6 unit Humanities topics and 6 unit Science topics, they should have the same workload.

However, I find that it depends on your understanding of and your entusiasm towards the topic. For example, last semester I found my English topic fairly easy and I did work hard on the assignments but I didn't find it as difficult to get through. However with my Sociology topic everything took a long time because I wasn't really interested in what I had to do and I found the assignments really hard.

And Kyle that's exactly why I said theoretically ^_^ I have heard several times that science topics have far more contact hours, but I don't know about the work outside classes. From my experience, Humanities topics don't have that many contact hours, but there is a LOT of work expected to be done outside of class.

I kind of take offence to the implication that humanities subjects are easy. If you want to succeed in any subject at Uni you have to work pretty hard.

It wouldn't surprise me that science has a higher work load. However, in Humanities topics, you have to do all the brain work to come up with ideas. In science you have to do stuff to prove other people's ideas.

Please don't shoot me down if that's an exaggeration. I haven't done science at uni level. I don't know whether it's like in high school where you don't discover anything NEW or whether you do research and discover new stuff. But I'm assuming you're still on the path of trying to learn what everyone else has already discovered so you don't waste time trying to discover it yourself when really it's already been discovered.

I'm going to take a breath now.. lol.

I’m not entirely sure that you discover anything new in humanities at an undergraduate level.