favorite class in college?

[Matthieu]

I'm waiting for someone to give their math courses some love. My Honors Real and Complex Analysis course is absolutely kicking my ass... but I'm loving every minute of it.

[Nuri]

Matt may have to wait for a while. : )

This semester, I can't get enough of my "Writers In Hollywood" English/Film Analysis class. Before studying under Prof. C, I don't think I fully appreciated film as an art form.

The Biology of Cancer is a close second.


Favorite class of all time has to go to Prof. J and Pre-Chaucerian Lit last semester, which, cliche but TRUE, Changed My Life.

[Ashley]

Matt wrote: "I'm waiting for someone to give their math courses some love. My Honors Real and Complex Analysis course is absolutely kicking my ass... but I'm loving every minute of it."

nope, I love math too!! I know I already posted bout my art class but it really was fun. The reason why I'm not an art major is because I missed math. yaa... I know I'm weird lol

I'm actually a Civil Engineer major... I'm taking calc III and loving it :) and physics too... anyone on here interested in physics?? Thats the class thats killing me this semester, but its also interesting at the same time.

[Matthieu]

Yes! My primary concentration is in physics. Mathematical Cosmology (astrophysics), to be specific.

If you ever need help, feel free to ask me.

[Ashley]

Since I'm a medieval studies major I've had some weird courses. This year my favourite is "The Werewolf Renaissance of the 12th Century" aka the werewolf class. It's so much fun!

[Tahleen]

I want to take a werewolf class.

[Ashley]

Matt wrote: "Yes! My primary concentration is in physics. Mathematical Cosmology (astrophysics), to be specific.

If you ever need help, feel free to ask me."

thanks I just might take you up on that :) astrophysics? That is so cool!!

as is the werewolf class... really??

[[deleted user]]

Ashley, that is so cool! Wish I had a werewolf class!

[[deleted user]]

i guess my favorite class of time in college was introduction to criminal justice. The teacher was a retired police officer and i really enjoyed his lecture and his stories of his career. i remember him tell us a story of his experience with a person who was intoxicated with a drug called PCP, which is basically a type of anethestic that numbs every part of your body and gives you no feeling what so ever. you can get shot and not feel it, and it is very dangerous to police officers because there is literally nothing that they can do to subdue a person high on PCP, nothing, not mace or a taser, and he told us that 20 cops had to go to the hospital that night, its always an exciting class when a teacher is associated with your major, but i liked him alot because he would joke around with his lecture and he made class learning fun.

[R]

A werewolf class. That is utterly fantastic.

I snuck into a criminal justice/forensic science class a couple of times last semester... One of the lecturers was a prosecutor and she had some entertaining but gory tales from her career to tell as well. I've found that most of my favourite lecturers have had practical experience in their field in addition to the theoretical knowledge.

I took a basic astrophysics class a few semesters ago. It nearly killed me because I'm far from the strongest mathematician around, but it was a lot of fun anyway. I guess it always helps to be interested in the subject matter, which I was (and still am).

This semester I'm taking a historical film class... amazing, pretty much.

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yes i too had a teacher that told graphic tales of her experiences with the DA, but unfortuantley due to the graphic nature of her tales involving children, i literally felt sick and left the class

[Tahleen]

Wow Gene, that sounds really intense. I'm sure the class was well worth it despite the graphicness of the lectures...

[[deleted user]]

yea it was worth it and the teacher made some of the lectures easier to learn, including the crime scene project that we had to do, where the room was a crime scene, with blood not real ofcourse and a weapon and the teacher was the body and we had to collect evidence and take photos and stuff it was cool

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This semester I'm doing a class on Women's Human Rights. It's brilliant! I have to do a project on the objectification of women through porn, I can't wait to get started! Oooh, and we're learning all about power in society this semester too, which is facinating! I feckin' love sociology and politics!

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did you say through Porn? and you cant wait to get started, hmmm i would be excited as well lol

[Emily]

most interesting class: The history of witch hunts in Europe. fascinating subject!

[Tahleen]

I took a witchcraft course last fall, it was really interesting and I enjoyed it, despite the fact that we had way too much reading and I didn't do most of it. But I still had the greatest final paper ever haha. I studied witchcraft in contemporary teenage literature.

[[deleted user]]

there is a course for that??

[Tahleen]

Yep, it was a history course.

[[deleted user]]

oh god i dislike history, i dont know why even if someone paid me a million dollars to do it i would refuse

[Daniel]

Yeah, a lot of people end up going for the liberal arts courses (I'm no different. My favorite course was a class on Pop Culture and Ideology). But I wonder why that is? Is there something impenetrable about science and engineering classes? Do you have to be pedantic or esoteric? I'm not sure. But I wonder what would happen if all the sudden science teachers were required to take 2 year courses in charisma training? More on this later...maybe...

[Daniel]

Molly wrote: "My favorite class was an International Relations class. I think the teacher made it amazing..but I really was interested and learned so much!"

Hey, I'm doing the graduate thing in IR. I would actually be interested in hearing why your class was so great. Was it the course reading, the charisma of the teacher? Did the teacher use active learning techniques of lectures?