<p>I am curious if I can write about the class that already exists in some other schools but not in emory</p>
<p>I would try to be a little more creative than that, but whatever. I’m just worried you’d choose something that is commonly offered at schools that excel or have certain depts that we don’t (in which case many adcoms may already be familiar with it and it’ll come off as a “suggestion” more so than a creation). Just examine your values and interests and come up with something that you think may be novel (or at least not that common).</p>
<p>can i send you a private message about what i am going to write about?</p>
<p>Sure you can.</p>
<p>Random suggestion: Virgil in Dante! That is my favorite class ever.</p>
<p>doryphorus: Did Morey or Rusche teach that course?</p>
<p>Perkell taught it. Good teacher. </p>
<p>If it was me, math 250 or 361 or econ 420. Maybe bio 141. </p>
<p>My advice: don’t say engineering. Pick a subject that complements your accomplishments in high school. </p>
<p>Again, I would invent my own course. Although, retrospectively, I could see myself teaching some courses in a novel way. I never asked, but did you have someone decent for bio 141 aluminum I had Escobar 
. Nice guy, easy I guess but those are perhaps the only benefits one can possibly have from the way he teaches. Not good for people who actually need to learn biology at what should be an “Emory” level (oh, wait, like half of the biology classes have yet to reach that level yet. Guess I should have had lower expectations)… Plus there was the whole monotone thing. </p>
<p>Dr. Spell. One of the best professors I had here. </p>
<p>Perkell teaches that one.
She’s extremely good in her field and a great teacher.</p>
<p>For me, I’d say Math 250 or 361. I find them both great. Or Econ 211 or 420.
Maybe BUS 320.</p>
<p>Plenty of other classes I’d love to teach but don’t know anything about.</p>
<p>My advice to the OP. Don’t write about engineering.</p>
<p>Perkell teaches that one.
She’s extremely good in her field and a great teacher.</p>
<p>For me, I’d say Math 250 or 361. I find them both great. Or Econ 211 or 420.
Maybe BUS 320.</p>
<p>Plenty of other classes I’d love to teach but don’t know anything about.</p>
<p>My daughter wrote in her essay that she would teach a course about the Hunger Games. I thought it was a really cool course, and innovative too, covering lots of topics and deeper meanings in the books. I would take that course!</p>
<p>I wrote about a class dissecting the political apathy in youth today, and then tied in my political ECs. I really hope the admission people liked it. lol</p>
<p>@jocjarmom</p>
<p>I love The Hunger Games!! I was going to write my class essay on it, but expanded it out to a course about dystopian novels haha. </p>
<p>Mine was a course on minor political parties in western politics - focusing on opening students eyes to a greater plethora of political outlooks than what we are bombarded with by the two or three parties that usually hold the focus in most democracies @jocjarmom, I also love the Hunger Games, I read it only last month and was extremely taken aback by the important issues it dissects </p>
<p>i wrote about teaching reverse psychology. my whole essay was like on telling the students “don’t take this class… blah blah blah” </p>
<p>Hi @godiva123 and @SummerAus… thanks for the positive feedback. I think she was nervous that it might appear trendy or not original, but she also loved the book series and the messages behind it. I know she mentioned topics to be discussed might include "The Role of Government,” “The Will to Survive,” “Sacrifice and Risk,” “The Inequalities between Rich and Poor,” “The Power of Symbols,” “The Influence of the Media”, and “The Ethics of the Games”. This book series is so rich in deep themes! I love the idea of doing a class about dystopian novels… there are so many of them out there right now! I think the new movie “Divergent” is one of them (haven’t seen or read it, but it looks like it’s on the mark). Anyway, it’s all exciting! </p>
<p>I had a history (I think it was a 285/385. There were even some freshmen) class my junior year called Dystopias/Utopias. It was awesome! Readings included animal farm, The Republic, and 1984. The discussions were of course quite vibrant and the topic offered great material to base essays and research papers on. Given how rich The Hunger Games is in those themes, I can indeed see a full course on it being very stimulating. </p>
<p>I had an English course at Oxford where we actually read an excerpt of the Hunger Games. The class, although technically entitled “Popular Literature and the Academy” was known as “Harry Potter” since we read works ranging from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to On the Road to the first two chapters of Twilight. Fantastic class. If any soon to be Oxford student is reading this, take Dr. Ivey. She’s the best. </p>