# Is there a word to describe an academic class which requires a lot of studying but isn’t frustrating? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 26, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846 "2021-02-26T21:38:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/1 "2021-02-26T21:38:14Z")
Definitely don’t need answer fast. What word would you use for an academic class which requires a lot of studying but you never find frustrating? Perhaps there’s a lot of attention to detail required or there’s a lot of reading and you need to constantly look up references. But, you never once are close to the point where you want to throw the book across the room and scream, ‘I’ll never understand this!!’ ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/2 "2021-02-26T21:41:55Z")
“Fun”? ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/3 "2021-02-26T21:44:55Z")
Fast paced and enjoyable? Four words, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/4 "2021-02-26T21:47:32Z")
Graduate level class (never took one that was easy, never took one that wasn’t fun) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/6 "2021-02-26T21:57:09Z")
Engrossing? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/7 "2021-02-26T22:11:41Z")
Rewarding? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/8 "2021-02-26T23:01:26Z")
Intensive ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/9 "2021-02-26T23:23:44Z")
I was gonna say time-intensive, myself. But this works too. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/10 "2021-02-26T23:27:03Z")
Sexy. Does painting nudes get frustrating? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/11 "2021-02-27T00:54:47Z")
Depends on if they keep flinching away because the paint tickles their skin. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/12 "2021-02-27T01:01:51Z")
Isn’t that pretty much “subject you really love”? Or maybe that’s just me. If I liked the subject, I could easily spend tons of time researching and working out problems and even doing extra work to really dig into it and understand it. If I didn’t, 20 minutes of reading was too damn much work. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/13 "2021-02-27T01:04:32Z")
“Intellectually challenging?” ---
**Author:** ![EastUmpqua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eastumpqua/32/6025_2.png) [@EastUmpqua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EastUmpqua)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/14 "2021-02-27T01:07:18Z")
Science. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/15 "2021-02-27T01:37:32Z")
Interesting ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-to-describe-an-academic-class-which-requires-a-lot-of-studying-but-isn-t-frustrating/933846/16 "2021-02-27T01:43:01Z")
Education.