What is the best college class you ever took?

Population Diffusion/Partial Differential equations

fun to learn that there is a threshold for populations before they plumit to zero and can no longer sustain themselves.....anyone want to guess ours?

Two of my favorites were:

History of the Beatles

S&M: A History of Sexual Bondage

Not even joking...

Introductory Micro/Macro Econ

Intro to Shakespeare

These two classes have proven more memorable, more useful, and more fruitful (intellectually and financially) than anything I can remember.

The archeologist looks at Death

Environmental History

History of Sports

Any of these three:

Recombinant DNA

Molecular Virology

Immunobiology

This was the funnest:

Plant Genetics (which was mostly math and stats applied to heredity patterns).

Bowhunting - really it was a PE class.

Seriously, best class was Latin American Civ. A survey level social studies class conducted entirely in Spanish - learned a lot of the material and the language.

boring community college intro psych class became exciting

had sex with the instructor in her office

And now I'm sure you're either not gainfully employed or working as a "valet" at some restaurant, copping for tips and sucking on the teet of the productive American taxpayer, as so many kids that "took someone else's" parking spot at college are, as well as those frat dicks who later became "salesmen" and are now out of a job and having to REALLY GO TO COLLEGE to get a SKILL for the first time in their lives as middle-aged men. Good on ya mate. We're all proud of your societal contribution.

I got 1-hr credit twice for running XC. That fulfilled my PE requirement. The unwritten syllabus included regular bouts of heavy drinking.

In terms of more traditional class, probably either Psych 201 (boring topics covered by an interesting guy who always looked like he'd just put his finger in a light socket) or modern geometry (fascinating subject taught by one of the most boring people I've ever met).

I have to admit the credit for cross-country was nice.

paijfd wrote:

Worst experience was an Africana Studies class. It was awkward to be a white guy. The TA wrote some offensive comments on the first couple of papers that she handed back to me, but I showed them to the professor and she got thrown out. I actually learned a lot in the class, and the other students went out of their way to be warm and welcoming.

So despite the fact that the TA was thrown out (which makes it seem like the professor was a good one), you learned a lot of new information that you may not have otherwise, and the classmates went out of their way to be warm and welcoming, it was STILL your worst experience?

Intermediate Golf in PE. Awesome instructor.

Loved the two time XC credits as well.

naturalbutter wrote:

Population Diffusion/Partial Differential equations

fun to learn that there is a threshold for populations before they plumit to zero and can no longer sustain themselves.....anyone want to guess ours?

7billion?

crap - we only got one for xc/track - thus the badminton (and the bowling)

'Political History of the Modern Olympics'

I was a History Major, so it went toward classes for my degree program. The professor was 2nd generation Swiss/Lithuanian, an expert on Soviet History, and everytime Wisconsin would host an sports exibition with a European or (1985 time of class) East Bloc nation, he would be the de facto host/translator, even though he might not speak all the languages. He told us some great stories about personal experiences. The premise of the course was that people like Avery Brundage's assertions about the games being apolitical was utterly ridiculous.

It would have been cool to take the class again after an Olympiad or two following the fall of communism (Unified Team, German reunification, etc).

2nd best class was Political Science class on 'Selection of the American President.' Again, this was 25 years ago, so the dynamics have changed considerably.

My son just matriculated to UW-Madison this month. Will have to check and see if either of those classes is being taught, though I doubt it.

COMM 412 - Negotiation

Two 'papers' and case studies done weekly. No final.

Easy, fun, learned a lot. Best grade I got at school.

speedyGonzalez wrote:

The archeologist looks at Death

Environmental History

History of Sports

Get out of here Steve Gonzalez. You're a douche.

Best class I took = Homeostasis

It was originally a graduate level class that they made available to undergraduates because a lot of students expressed interest. It covers the central control of blood volume, blood pressure, ingestive physiology, etc. Excellent professor.

Stratigraphy and Sedimentation. Great class taught by an even greater human being. 2-3 papers with photos a week , two afternoons in the field a week looking and pounding on rocks, coupled with the possibility of a talk expounding on the geologic problem for the week. I learned more about myself and dicipline in that one semester than the rest of my life.