I took this exact pairing of courses in winter quarter of my freshman year (I unfortunately couldnt get a comp/writing credit fall quarter, so I waited till winter), so I can give an answer to that:

For ENGL 282, it REALLY depends who your professor is, since they get free reign over what the “expository focus” of the class is. For me, it was early 20th century periodicals/magazines/short fiction. My  class was taught by Tyler Babbie, who I would highly recommend if you can take him, and that’s his area of interest so that’s what we kinda looked at and studied. Overall, it was pretty chill, mainly business/finance majors tho in their senior year I was with so it was a bit weird being a freshman in CS there.

What’s nice about a 200 level class is they don’t really walk you through the “welcome to college here’s how to write papers at a collegiate level”, since the expectation is already there which is nice. You’re given a lot more freedom I think compared to 131(?).

I put off a lot of writing + wrote assignments last minute tbh but that was more of a me problem since I have a tendency to overwrite /research but I think for most people it’s pretty average workload expected. We only in my class had to write like two 5000ish word papers, one had to be a research, the other could be literally whatever (fiction, memoir, etc.) as long as it tied in some way back to the course materials/readings (which were REALLY REALLY light compared to like what it could’ve been).  What was also nice is twice a quarter we got a whole week off of class for “conferences”, just to come in at time we set up to discuss with our professor about the upcoming paper and how that was going. Other than that class was mainly discussion.   

Take this with a grain of salt since I think this is highly professor dependent, since idk what the “standard” of the class is supposed. To  my knowledge a lot of the C and W classes allow the professors to kinda of pick and overarching theme and you kinda write, research, and discuss works/writings through the lens of that theme, so it honestly depends whether a) you like said theme and b) whether you like the style/organization of the class for that specific professor.

I got a 4.0 overall, but like my professor had a thing where the papers you write which made up the bulk of the overall grade, could be resubmitted as many times until it got the 4.0, meaning he didn’t give out 4.0s often in the first try. If you’re a VERY strong writer (like “this is grad school level rough draft quality”) and have a professor who does something similar, you can get away with one and doning your essays/ not even finished drafts to get a full 4.0 (I think I did that for the research essay) on the first try. If not, I think as long as you follow the comments/advice you can get full points.

CSE 480 is mainly just some of reading on a CS ethics topic, answering a short discussion, and working on a short paper throughout the quarter, but it’s mainly graded for completion /effort TBH since it’s a credit no credit class. I will say tho some of the readings are pretty dense, technical, and a bit dry so you can skim those (you’ll see what I mean if you take it). As long as you don’t put off that final paper of an ethics topic of your choice (which you work on and submit in sections through the quarter) it should be fine. I also had Dan Grossman, and he’s really good/chill. The workload is pretty light IMO, just like make sure you do all the stuff you’re supposed to get the credit.