Also, why did you choose to attend Tufts? I just wanna get a feel. Thanks!!
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How about Sol Gittleman’s class on the history of baseball?
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I’m currently participating in the 1+4 Bridge Year program. The online course that you take with the program isn’t paticularily special, but the experience as a whole has been amazing and very eye opening . The only other school that offers a bridge year program is Princeton, so in that way it’s pretty unique.
You also have the Ex-College classes, which are all non traditional. There is a listing of the classes somewhere online.
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I am an alum and a parent of a recent grad. .
The Ex-College just celebrated its 50th birthday and I would have to say that in both our cases, Ex-College courses stood out.
They run the gamut from pragmatic, career-related courses taught by industry experts and government officials to entertaining, but thought provoking flights of intellectual fantasy. (Think Vampires, Harry Potter and Superheroes.)
http://www.excollege.tufts.edu/news.asp
For me, it was an Ex-College course in Decision Theory, taught by a high ranking military officer using the Cuban Missile Crisis as a case study.
For my daughter, I would say it was the combination of a pragmatic course and an internship for credit through the Ex-College (part of a minor in Media Studies) that helped her land a summer internship and ultimately a job in her area of interest.
http://ase.tufts.edu/cms/internshipcredit.html
Just this year, a student won an international prize based on an interest triggered by an Ex-College course.
http://now.tufts.edu/news-releases/tufts-junior-wins-2015-global-peter-drucker-challenge
For many, EPIIC (sponsored by the Ex-College) was a unique experience.
http://www.tuftsgloballeadership.org/epiic-2015-overview
Here is a list of current and past course offerings (they change every semester):
http://www.excollege.tufts.edu/coursesCurrent.asp
http://www.excollege.tufts.edu/coursesPrevious.asp
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One of the most unique classes I took was a special topics course cross listed in CS and Philosophy called “Artificial Agents and Autonomy” - http://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/150AAA/syllabus.html. It was co-taught by Daniel Dennett, a renowned philosopher on the faculty, and Matthias Scheutz, a professor of human-robot interaction with degrees in CS and philosophy. There are lots of cool opportunities at Tufts for this sort of cross-disciplinary learning.
Other somewhat unique classes I had were Bodyworks, a massage class (which may unfortunately no longer exist), and Comp 50 GD, a game design class involving students from both engineering and arts and sciences.
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