<p>I was going over my transcript today and got to thinking about some of my favorite college classes. I think a thread like this could be helpful to current students deciding what to take in future semesters...so post your favorite class(es), whether they were a part of your major or just an elective, and why you liked it (i.e. was it the teacher, the subject matter, the class discussion, the reading material, etc.)</p>
<p>For me, it was my junior year Creative Writing: Fiction workshop. The class was small, about a dozen kids, the professor was hilarious and REALLY in tune with the students (he is a published young adult novelist), the reading assignments were short (usually 2 published short stories plus the other students' stories each week), and the class was extremely constructive in discussion; people didn't hold back from offering criticism because we all understood the goal was to help each other become better writers.</p>
<p>Edit: I was an English major, so the course satisfied a major requirement for me.</p>
<p>intro to scientific computing - great prof, material useful, straightforward, and systematic. Like almost all programming, fairly simple if you 'get it', but you need to be somewhat ingenious sometimes to accomplish what you want to efficiently. Lots of projects do things you would actually find useful, and provided good knowledge and prep for future work. Prereq to major.</p>
<p>i know i havent taken this (yet) haha but i talked to some college kids about some of the classes they loved and a couple at BC took Dinosaurs and The History of Rock and Roll hahaha, but a few others all said their favorite class by far was called Death and Dying...just thought that was interesting</p>
<p>Classic Mythology, always enjoyable at any school. Just be prepared to read a lot. Another class I enjoyed was Writing Special Topic: Magical Realism. It's quite refreshing to learn about this new genre of literature. The class itself was real laid back and we had a lot of discussion time.</p>
<p>Russell7, why did you hate geometry? Did you find it hard or boring, or was it maybe just something about your school that made it unenjoyable?</p>
<p>I'm asking cause I don't know many people who took it, but the two I've heard from include one who said it was their favorite class in college and another who absolutely hated it.</p>
<p>1) Introduction to Athletic Injuries.. enjoyed the topic of the class. Considering I'm studying Athletic Training, that's pretty important ;)</p>
<p>2) Freshmen Seminar class.. topic was The Manhatten Project. The topic itself wasn't as good as I had hoped, but I enjoyed the class. We had class discussions and the professor was cool.</p>
<p>I look forward to almost all of my Major classes.</p>
<p>chris, my prof was retarded. She just wrote theorems on the board during lectures and made us memorize them for exams. She'd give us 70 theorems to memorize and say that 10 would be on the final, or whatever. And she was picky as hell with every justification. The class average ended up being like 90 something for a curved class and it was just stupid. I wanted to be able to use my intuition and problem solve, but it was just memorization. Biggest let down of a course ever.</p>
<p>Favorites:
19th Century History of Opera: Cultivated my interest in opera. Have been to two operas since and fully intend on going to many more. Didn't even want to take the class but had to because of GE requirements. I think I'll be seeing Bizet's Carmen in the fall.<br>
Roman History: Excellent, enthusiastic professor. Material is interesting too.
Russian Short Stories and Novels: Enthusiastic, entertaining professor. Also, forced me to to read Notes from the Underground. Very difficult and very rewarding.<br>
Political Sociology: Directly relevant... current events... also some theory and I liked Tocqueville.<br>
French: Small, intimate class. Loved instructor. </p>
<p>Least Favorites:
Byzantine History: 700 years of history that I didn't care about.
Intro to Psychology: Rote memorization; also huge class.
Intro Chem: Huge class; lost interest
Evolutionary Biology: Worse than AP Biology</p>
<p>History of College Athletics
Rise and Fall of the American Sportswriter (assuming I get off the waitlist for it next semester)
Shakespeare Seminar that came with guaranteed student-priced tickets to three Royal Shakespeare Company performances
Combinatorial Game Theory
Theory of Complex Systems
Combinatorial Theory - Coxeter Groups</p>
<p>mine, so far, has been composition 2. it's only a gen ed, but;</p>
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<li><p>there was only 12 people in the class, and there was another brother in the class along with a pledge. </p></li>
<li><p>the prof. was a hippy stoner. he would make jokes about how our class got out at 4:20, and other jokes about smoking. we were the only 3 to laugh at them, not sure if it's because we're the only ones who got them or the only ones that would laugh at them, but it was obvious that he liked us.</p></li>
<li><p>he would have class outside at least once or twice a week
3.b. add to the fact i was blazed out of my mind every class, so this was very cool</p></li>
<li><p>none of our papers had any thought on his part, and all seemed to be the same(this might have something to do with 3.b lol)</p></li>
<li><p>i got an A and can honestly say i learned nothing about english in that class</p></li>
<li><p>example of a prof who beleived schooling shouldn't get in the way of education</p></li>
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example of a prof who beleived schooling shouldn't get in the way of education
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<p>I think when Mark Twain said this he didn't have getting high during classes and earning A's for no work in mind. But what more can you expect from a frat boy.</p>
<p>Someone mentioned the number 420 in my class once and someone asked, more to the students, if she was the only one who got the reference. The professor proudly piped in that she got it, too. It was pretty pathetic to say the least. Connecting with students over something like that isn't as productive as the professor probably thought it was. And if a professor is actually still getting high himself...well, you know he must be a humanities professor.</p>