Freshman writing seminars?

<p>Any advice which ones are the best classes to take?</p>

<p>The instructors for a particular class often rotate year to year so there’s no guarantee you’d get the same experience (aka “best” probably won’t apply to your year). Also, it’s a lottery on which one you’ll get so if you build your schedules around a target FWS you might be in for a surprise. </p>

<p>So basically pick based on subject matter or time slots and hope for the best. I picked some FWS for the lottery based on time slots and got something like “gendered and haunted spaces” which was about ghosts and… feminism -_-. Utterly worthless. I learned how to discriminate against women as opposed to the opposite (some stereotypes that were discussed I had never heard of or dealt with. This is different than stereotypes that I never noticed. The ones taught I have never even heard of anywhere or considered.)</p>

<p>The second time around I picked based on subject matter and took “memoirs and memory” which was an interesting class on autobiographies and how basically they’re all lies based on inherent self-serving bias and crappy memory, but they’re probably the best lies if they’re autobiographical lol. Pretty useful in every day life imo since some concepts also applies in everyday conversation with people. I liked the writing assignments for this class since they were more personal and less bs about random literature.</p>

<p>I’ve heard Grimm/Fairy tales or something like that is basically the same stuff as high school… you read fairy tales and write bs about how the characters are analogies for the end of the world etc etc.</p>

<p>I took Power and Politics: LGBT Rights and the European Union in the Government department. It was awesome.</p>

<p>My son took one through the philosophy department: “God, Death, Morality, and the Meaning of Life”. He enjoyed it a lot. Choose topics and times that work with your schedule. He got his second choice. He only had to take one, since his English AP score took care of the other. Be open minded and go in prepared to get the most out of your classes. You’ll have a much better experience that way.</p>