You can only pick one. My pick is English Literature 1 (Survey of prominent works to 1798)
You can only pick one. My pick is English Literature 1 (Survey of prominent works to 1798)
Communications. All we did was get in groups and work on debates. That and doing impromptu speeches.
computer science circa 1989
Advanced English Literature: A Survey of Pastoral Literature
public speaking. gah.
mostly because listening to most of the doofs in that class was like listening to c-span.
Can't pick just one, but every class I had with this certain professor for my major. The topics would be interesting, but he told the same stories in every class.
So digital photography, web, prepress, printing estimating, etc.
Philosophy 201-American Pragmatism & Great American Thinkers
English - Technical Writing
boriiing wrote:
You can only pick one. My pick is English Literature 1 (Survey of prominent works to 1798)
You must have gotten a bad teacher. All the best literature in English was written before 1798.
For me it would be estate tax - just shoot me, please.
Introduction to American Government. A promising enough topic, but seriously - making college students learn that we have a bicameral legislature, that the President can veto bills, that there is such a thing as judicial review, etc.?! It was like 9th grade civics again. OMFG, if you don't already know that you do NOT belong in college!
Concerned Citizen wrote:
Introduction to American Government. A promising enough topic, but seriously - making college students learn that we have a bicameral legislature, that the President can veto bills, that there is such a thing as judicial review, etc.?! It was like 9th grade civics again. OMFG, if you don't already know that you do NOT belong in college!
This class annoyed me the most because it was just a review of crap I had learned in high school. People were always freaking out over tests and homework, meanwhile I never opened the book. Huge waste of money to make this a required course. I'm currently taking the second semester course in a three week session, and I've only gone to class on test days. Seriously this is stuff people should know by reading newspapers and paying attention to current events.
Sociology. My sociology professor was so out of touch that she thought the movie Boyz in the Hood was making a reference to the Kevin Costner movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. She was a professor of sociology and did not know that "hood" was street slang for "neighborhood".
Control Systems was mind-bogglingly boring. The professor looked like Lenin's mummified corpse and occasionally showed us pictures of his cats.
Precious Roy wrote:
Sociology. My sociology professor was so out of touch that she thought the movie Boyz in the Hood was making a reference to the Kevin Costner movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. She was a professor of sociology and did not know that "hood" was street slang for "neighborhood".
My sociology professor made us all take a test on the internet to see if we were racists. You would look at pictures of white people and black people, then at words like "good" and "bad" and have to click things. The test said I was racist - get this, against white people.
I thought sociology was mostly BS, but it was at least mildly amusing. Plus I had the chance to learn about my bigoted views of Caucasians and work on that.
Did you also think your grammar lessons were BS?
asdffsad wrote:
Did you also think your grammar lessons were BS?
Why, was that your most boring class?
Intro to Econ was boring, but probably should have listened better because maybe I'd be rich by now.
Capstone anthropology class my senior year. Let's see chain of ideas David Hume, Max Weber, Marvin Harris, Margaret Mead, Franz Boaz, even Marx. I hated the class and it was enough to make me go back for a 2nd major in biology after I graduated.
i took the intro sociology class as pass/fail. my university would allow you to take 3 of those in your undergrad career. since i knew i was not interested in studying any of that material i chose that as one of them.
it basically allowed me to never study, just past the tests, and sit in class and do nothing but stir the pot. i had some huge black guy get up and try to come over to kick my ass in class once. the prof was the department chair and he was this old dude stepping in front of the huge angry young man. all i actually did was ask questions in the class. i never made statements. it was fvcking hilarious to see how other people interpret questions to be statements and how questions reveal other peoples insecurities and biases.
hey wait. maybe i did learn something in that class?
anyway the actual presentation of the material was boring as fvck but i found a way to get through it.
Young Fogey wrote:
For me it would be estate tax - just shoot me, please.
You had an entire class just on estate taxes? Is it possible to create an entire semester of material on just this topic?
I went into a field that doesn't draw many mathematically inclined people. My master's is in city planning. I guess most mathematical people go into engineering while planning draws the "big picture" thinkers. I'm not a math genius by any means, but I was an econ major and I'm comfortable with basic algebra, calc, statistics/econometrics, matrices, etc.
Sitting through our quantitative analysis class in grad school was horrible. Everyone in the class was bright in one way or another, but some just couldn't do anything with numbers. Every simple concept had to be explained 6 different ways. We spent a whole week (re)learning the most basic concepts of matrix algebra just so that we could do a few simple things with input-output analysis.
The material was interesting enough, but the course just moved at a glacial pace.