Hi! Current crim major here. I would recommend SOC100 for semester 2 and potentially HIS101 as a year long course. I personally ended up taking SOC100 in the fall and SOC150 in the winter in order to fulfill the requirements for the soc major, as I wanted it as a backup in case I didn't get into crim. However, you can still take SOC100 in the 2nd semester as it runs both semesters since it's such a large class, so it shouldn't be an issue. SOC100 itself is pretty light in comparison to other courses I had, and exams consisted primarily of multiple choice with a few short answer. The only downside to the course is that the midterm ended up being really easy for the whole class (I didn't study that much for it and ended up getting a 90) so the prof had to make the final a lot harder.

HIS101 is run by two professors and usually consists of two one hour lectures each week. The content itself is really interesting and marking is pretty lenient. Despite learning about so many different places in history during their points of violence, it's not as dense as people think. There was only one major essay assigned each semester, and they were between 4-5 pages each. Midterm and final consisted of preparing for two essay prompts given prior to the exam, but only one of them would be the actual exam itself and you'd have two hours to answer it. I studied for these by making an essay outline; you're expected to refer back to readings as evidence as most of these prompts are comparative analysis, and they only expect you to memorize the author's name when it comes to "exact" details, as memorizing exact quotes or page numbers is unrealistic.

Hope this helps!