<p>Which classes are usually student favorites? Do you know if any of these courses are fun/boring easy/hard?</p>
<p>Philosophy Requirement
Introduction to Philosophy (80-100)
Nature of Reason (80-150)
Nature of Language (80-180)
Logic & Proofs (80-210)
Intro to Psychology (85-102)
Principles of Child Development (85-221)</p>
<p>English Requirement
C is for Cookies (A, LL, M, NN, T, U, V, MM, I)
Frankenstein, Technology and Dystopia (B,II)
Questioning Race: Is Race Still an Issue in the United States? (C)
Reality Television and the Discourse of the Real (D)
The Sokal Affair: A Physicist Takes on Cultural Studies (E)
Achieving a Public Art: Public Art and the Culture Wars (F)
Interpreting and Exploring Shakespeares Macbeth (G, KK)
Religion and Power (H)
Politics of Agriculture (HH)
What Does It Mean to Be a Student? What Is It to Study? (J)
More Human than Human (K)
Punk and the Politics of Subculture (L, N)
Media and Public Debate (O)
Thinking the Urban (P)
Race and Otherness in America (Q)
Is Popular Culture Ruining Our Children? (R)
What is Education For? (S)
Gender, Media, and the Politics of Representation (AA)
What use is The End?: Apocalyptic Promises and Fears (BB)
Art and Society (CC)
Public Opinion & Democracy: Under the influence? (DD) Interrogating Democracy in America (EE)
The Culture of Sports Fandom (FF)</p>
<p>History
Global Histories: Globalization Through History
Global Histories: Latin America and Global Environmental
Global Histories: The Civil Rights Movement and the World
Global Histories: Spain and the World, 1898 to the Present</p>
<p>I had the punk class last year. I recommend that one if you are into that sort of stuff.</p>
<p>Child Development: The teacher for this is very interested in the material. It is sort of impossible to fail unless you dont do the assignments.</p>
<p>Intro to Psych: This class is like a psych overview. I had it, but not at CMU. It was pretty easy where I took it.</p>
<p>If you take Intro Philosophy, don’t take it with Harrell. She despises teaching that course because she’s a high-level physics professor forced to teach an intro. The other guy is much funnier and an easier grader.</p>
<p>This is the first year that all the World Histories have been split into topics. Prior to now, it was one topic, taught by Prof. Rouse, and you sat through all this globalization crap that was rehashed a million times in a million essays. Great professor, boring topic. I’d stay away from the Globalization Through History topic for that reason.</p>
<p>I heard that Tepper kids have a schedule made for them so I don’t think I could risk putting down Intro to Philosophy. Do you know anyone who took C is for Cookies , Frankenstein, Technology and Dystopia, Is Popular Culture Ruining Our Children?</p>
<p>All of those are new except the pop culture class.</p>
<p>Anyway, as far as I remember, I am going to rank these as far as complaints about the class goes:</p>
<p>These classes are supposed to be good:
Punk and the Politics of Subculture (L, N)
Religion and Power (H)
The Culture of Sports Fandom (FF)
Is Popular Culture Ruining Our Children? (R)</p>
<p>These classes are supposed to be ones to avoid:
The “standard” topic (the topic they picked that has more than one picture.
Anything that sounds academic-y or boring, because chances are it is(unless you like these sorts of classes)</p>
<p>These are New:
C is for Cookies (A, LL, M, NN, T, U, V, MM, I) - This looks like the standard class, see above. Though to topic looks more interesting this semester. Last semester it was Genocide.
Frankenstein, Technology and Dystopia (B,II) - This one looks good to me
Thinking the Urban (P) - meh
The Sokal Affair: A Physicist Takes on Cultural Studies (E) - sounds interesting
Interpreting and Exploring Shakespeares Macbeth (G, KK) - blah.
What Does It Mean to Be a Student? What Is It to Study? (J) - this one is okay
More Human than Human (K) - interesting
Questioning Race: Is Race Still an Issue in the United States? (C) - This is the same as the general topic in the fall semester, but its renamed.
Race and Otherness in America (Q) - Same
Reality Television and the Discourse of the Real (D) - Sounds Fun
Achieving a Public Art: Public Art and the Culture Wars (F) - Sounds like you will have to visit art museums
Politics of Agriculture (HH) - tepper kids
Media and Public Debate (O) - tepper kids</p>
<p>Dont Remember:</p>
<p>What is Education For? (S) - This sounds like whats its like to be a student to me.
Gender, Media, and the Politics of Representation (AA) -meh
What use is The End?: Apocalyptic Promises and Fears (BB) - sounds fun
Art and Society (CC) - sounds like you will have to visit a museum
Public Opinion & Democracy: Under the influence? (DD) Interrogating Democracy in America (EE) - sounds similar to ones they did in previous semesters</p>
<p>Thanks metal and kate. I think I’m going for Is Popular Culture Ruining Our Children? (R) or Frankenstein, Technology and Dystopia (B,II), and Principles of Child Development. I’m not so sure about the global history courses but I’m shocked that they have so many new English courses.</p>
<p>Wow, they actually break up the Interp & Argument into different descriptions now? Back when I was a freshman it was just one class with a bajillion sections and you had to pray the one you got didn’t have a crappy topic.</p>
<p>I also took Intro to Philosophy a long time ago and thought it was one of the easier As I got. The professor had a policy where if less than 33% of the class would show up on a lecture day everyone who was there would get a free 2% added to their final grade. I got a free 6%. I think my final grade was something like 104%.</p>
<p>I had Intro to Philosophy with Harrell also, and I would agree that grading is fairly strict (although she doesn’t actually grade anything herself) and the teaching is quite dry. That said, my philosophy recitation had a great TA and the discussions/conversations/whatever we had there were the only personable activities I have participated in within a classroom here at CMU (All of my other courses are highly technical, go figure). I ended up with an A, and that should be doable for most people who do all of the reading assignments (3 per week…) and put some thought into their essays.</p>