What is your favorite course you ever took? College, high school, professional development?

[applegrove]

Mine is an African History course I took in University. Our teacher announced on the first day that, since we were in Nova Scotia, we knew nothing about Africa and so we weren't going to use a textbook very much. We were going to read African novels instead. It was w o n d e r f u l. Every week we read a different book that showed what life was like under a tribal chief or colonialism or during strike or during Independence. It was great! The teacher was amazing. I'll never forget that class.

[HopeHoops]

1. Ordinary Differential Equations.

[Xipe Totec]

8. I found it depressing

to see how limited the set of problems we can solve is, before resorting to approximation.

[Old Troop]

79. I hated the ending!

[MorningGlow]

2. So, so many

High school...probably Fantasy/Science Fiction elective in my senior year. We not only read fantasy and sci fi, but wrote a lot of stories as well.

College...women's fiction. I loved the professor, and it was fun trouncing the couple of idiot guys who took the course thinking they could pick up chicks. ;) No, really, they were not very bright--yet they were arrogant as all get out (bad mix). It was enjoyable taking them down a few pegs.

Grad school...no question, had to be the education course taught by the head of the English department at a nearby high school. She taught not only the usual theory stuff, but, more important, practical stuff. (As in, if you want an enjoyable employment experience, be nice to the office secretary. And, if you want your light bulbs changed in a timely manner, be nice to the janitor.)

[Posteritatis]

3. I had a similar experience at SMU here, actually

Not quite the same, but my global history prof emphasized the hell out of the "Global" part. I actually had to take the course twice due to illness; the first time in my first year I had to drop for a year, and the prof then was a very traditional Europeanist, so his "global history" was mainly European history from the French Revolution on. I didn't like him, and wanted to complete the course, so I took it with the second prof, who started with Islam. (I ended up taking a European history seminar with the first prof in my last year, which was total opposite to the initial experience in terms of how I liked the course.)

My overall favorite were my classics courses there; the Roman history course I took was simply very competently done by a prof who'd been teaching the field longer than I've been alive. At the end of the course she called about ten of us together and said she wanted to offer us an advanced course in the subject; we took that the following year and basically got a graduate-level ancient history course as undergrads. Anyone who went through that class did vastly better in every other subject they touched afterwards; it was kind of incredible.

I generally had good luck with profs at university.

[seabeyond]

4. geology. thought i would hate it. loved it. nt

[driver8]

5. I took a class in college called "Writing Themes for Literature." It was tough, but I learned...

so much about how to put together and write a well thought out paper. This class helped me with many of my other classes, too!

I also took an amazing class called "Opinions in Journalism" taught by one of the toughest professors I've ever had, but also one of the most amazing! His name was often mentioned when people were asked who their favorite professor was.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. "The Existentialists," San Jose State, as an English major.

LIFE-CHANGING.

Whitman and Thoreau, yes...but Emerson?

Emerson wrote the rule book for the life I have tried to live ever since that class. Also, the Professor was a Price Among Men...knew his stuff, was able to light a fire under every class and there was not one single moment in which I looked at the clock (and because it was a night class, we're talking THREE HOURS of my undivided attention, with a bathroom break in the middle).

:toast:

[Steely_Dan]

69. I Was Introduced to...

Existentialism in College from an English class,

After that course, I changed my major to Philosophy and eventually gained my PhD...I have taught many different Philosophy classes over the years. However, my French Existentialism course remains the most popular.

-P

[Xipe Totec]

7. Two actually, though the theme shoud be obvious

The History and Philosophy of Chemistry

The History and Philosophy of Computer Science.

Both were awesome, insightful courses that made my fall in love with both fields.

[applegrove]

20. I had a chemistry teacher in university who used to give the human history of certain reactions.

It made it so interesting.

[Faygo Kid]

9. Congressional Law, won the book award, and Beck doesn't get it.

Despite the deep high school grad analysis, he doesn't get it.

[Kali]

10. all time favorite was probably Sociobiology

with (the) Dr. John Alcock

but I had a really good biology instructor in high school, so both Biology and Human Anatomy and Physiology were favorites.

Had a good class in sociology in high school as well.

[femmocrat]

11. The most useful was "Classroom Management" in grad school.

My favorite in HS was anything in the art room. I took every course that was offered.

I can't remember anything life-changing from college, though. Not even the art classes.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

12. Soviet Area Studies, senior year of high school.

Abnormal Psychology as a college freshman was a close second.

[Roon]

13. a tie between history and science.

My science teacher was very strict in the classroom and no one liked him, except me. He made science fun and we did interesting things like dissecting animals and experimenting. I was once trumpeting my science teacher to my mother and we ran into him and his wife at the movie theater that night!

[csziggy]

14. Anthropology Independednt Study categorizing pot sherds from a dig

The dig had been completed several years before but the small college had no one able to categorize the finds. The professor gave me three bags of pot sherds and told me to sort them out. I researched the subject, categorized them, wrote a paper on my finds, wrote up descriptions and labels for the groupings explaining the features that differed between types, and made a chart of the time periods and ethnographic groups at the site.

At the end of the term, the professor was very surprised - he had not heard from me at all over the entire time and thought I had gotten in over my head and abandoned the project. Instead I had done what he called a professional job and given him sufficient material to get a grant to complete the dig and finish the studies of the material. I loved working independently without having to stop and explain my progress every step along the way.

[The Midway Rebel]

15. Western Civ

Suddenly life was much less of a painful mystery. It was the compass I used to set my course to becoming a professional teacher.

[Generic Brad]

16. Logic

Breaking arguments down to mathematical formulas was incredibly eye opening. It trained me to spot bullshit almost instantly.

[Taitertots]

17. The Economics of Crime, Religion, and Marriage

[struggle4progress]

18. Skew Fields. Peter Draxl was writing his book on the topic and using his draft for the course.

It was the first really high level math course I ever took; it was a constant eye-opener; and I was in way over my head

Draxl died a few years later, rather young

[MiddleFingerMom]

19. Several...

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...including "Teaching Art in the Elementary School", Children's Lit (two separate
classes), and Poetry Workshop (my first and subsequent ones).
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My first English Lit course, because I was hot for teacher (and eventually became
great friends with her) and because she introduced us to brainstorming by turning
us loose on "a subject ALL you college students go nuts over -- S-E-X!!!"
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We started out very VERY timidly. "Stroking". "Breast". "Multiple orgasms"
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She was used to this. She let it go on for a few minutes and STORMED to the front
of the class shouting, "NO NO NONONO", grabbing a piece of chalk and, in HUGE
letters, enunciating each and every word as she wrote it -- ORANGE. FLAVORED.
ORGY. BUTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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And we were OFF!!!! And we took no prisoners.
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Fun... and extremely educational about the brainstorming process.
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AND she wore micro-miniskirts and knee-high grey suede boots.
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MFM: a gold fucking star on his forehead for PERFECT attendance!!!!!!!
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[Odin2005]

24. That. Is. HILARIOUS!!!

[PJPhreak]

21. Hurricane Island Outward Bound.

[applegrove]

41. I forgot about outdoor experiences. I was did a beginner white water canoe trip. I loved it and

talked about it for years but was too shy to pursue it as a passtime.

[tk2kewl]

59. I did their in Fla Keys course.

Great stuff!

[PJPhreak]

64. How was That?

I did my course back in 1975...Things have changed a lot since...like the boats,now a days they get these Fiberglass hulled Boats that appear to be Sloop rigged.We had Oak Hulled Ketch rigged That weighed a TON! and Quite resembled a lifeboat from The early 20th century.

I would do it again in a second! But the North Carolina course this time.

[tk2kewl]

71. in the late 80s we had the same boats you described

I had a blast. Sailed up to some mangrove swamps and explored tide pools and coral reefs. good stuff.

[PJPhreak]

77. Did you do the "Full On" 26 day Course...

Or one of their shorter courses? Mine was "The Full Monty" 26 days,15 of which we never set foot on land,the four day Solo,the rockclimbing,The Confidence Course,Zip line,Radio Watch for the USCG,Jeez I could go on fer an hour!

If there was anything that shaped this Hippies life it was Outward Bound.I have been an Adventurer all my adult life,Bicycle toured over 17,000 miles in the US,Hitchiked around twice that much,Climbed 11 Fourteeners,Slept in Death Vally,have seen all of the lower 48,Motorcycled all thru Canada,the US and Mexico,have been places and done thigs that most folk only dream about.

Thank You O.B!!

P.J.Phreak Course H-68 Puffin Watch 1975

[tk2kewl]

78. no

I did one of the shorter ones. iI shared your sense of adventure though.

I did quite a bit of rock climbing in the day, mostly in the Gunks, but did some awesome climbing in Yosemite; Visited most of the national parks in the west on a 3 1/2 mo car and hiking tour spending only $3000; did quite a bit of motorcycling including riding from Long Island, NY to the boundary waters for a canoe trip and back. I have toured Yellowstone about 8 times most of them during sub zero winters.

These days my excitement is generally limited to short fishing trips in the Atlantic off of Long Island.

[PJPhreak]

83. Holy crap! yer from Massapequa!

I'm from Melville/Farmingdale/Dix Hills. Wow small world!

Spent most of my summers playing in The Great South Bay off Sayville/Fire Island Pines or Port Jeff Harbor...Clamming in the Bay,Taking our family boats and chasing the ferry in and out of the Pines (Those old converted PT Boats threw quite a wake!)
and waterskiing in Pt Jeff harbor.

Where I used to live (Rt 110 and Ruland Rd) was at the time mostly rural,in fact the apt building that I spent my late teens living in is now a Costco parking lot.

spent Many a Sat at the Sunrise Mall and Adventureland.

Small world!

[tk2kewl]

85. How did you land in Kansas?

As much as I love many of the places in this country, I don't think I could have settled anywhere outside of The Northeast.

[PJPhreak]

88. Lol,My Girlfrend has family here and...

We were able to purchase a 1/2 acre with a liveable cabin for less than $8000,Something that is totally impossible anywhere else!

We are retired Tourhead/Deadheads and tho this area is as Teagagger as all get out it is kinda fun to be our towns "Tokin" Hippies,The rest of the Virgil residents (All 109 of them) think we are kinda neat,tho it took a while for them to realize that we are just a couple of peaceniks.

Yea there are things that I miss about my old stomping grounds...Bagels,Kosher Delis,Nathans Oceanside (I know,they tore it down) My Fathers Place in Roslyn,Real Seafood (these folk think Seafood is Long john Silvers) Pizza,Hot Dog Carts,Jones Beach and Robert Moses,Concerts at MSG or SPAC,WLIR,WNEW,WBAB (Back when Clear Channel did not exist)The Great South Bay (Clambake anyone?) Eisenhower Park on the 4th of July,SUNY Stonybrook,Stadankos Italian Resturant in Glen Cove.

I miss all of that but I cant say I miss L.I.E/Northern/Southern State/Medowbrook Parkway Traffic Jams,The crazied drivers on Hempstead Tpk or the The cost of living on L.I!! My sister lives in Garden City and for what her and her husband paid just for their house alone I could Retire for real! I don't want to think of trying to get along out there...I wuold have to make 100k a year at the least! too much stress for me.

[tk2kewl]

89. My Father's Place was great wasn't it?

Did you go to Good Rats shows? They still get together once or twice a year for reunion shows -- good fun.

You are not kidding about the cost of living either. Fortunately I bought my first house in the early 90s before things went completely nuts. Selling that place got me the cash to build my energy star house in Massapequa, but the property tax alone is 18Gs for a house on a 70x100 lot on the canal. I suppose that one day I might actually need to move out of the area in order to afford to retire.

[PJPhreak]

90. Good Rats Shows...OMG,Yes

More than once.

18 grand for prop tax?!?! holy chit! my property tax...Are you sitting down?

$19.81...yea,ninteen dollars and eighty one cents,For this...







Like I tell folk,Its a "Cabin" not a house and it has its needs,the foundation is history,soft floors,the porch needs a redecking but the yard will make for great gardens and one has to love the dog pen,I love the wood stove,and Crime? What crime,heck I havent taken the key outta my car in a year,never think about locking the doors. I have only one complaint about this area (Besides the Teagaggers)...We get these all too often...



this is a photo I took in 07 out the left side of a delivery truck I was driving about 200 miles west of here...That little dark spot on the lower left horizion is a farmhouse and barn!

[tk2kewl]

91. That tornado looks pretty scary

I guess you saw in the news that a tornado cut through Queens, NY last week.

[PJPhreak]

93. Yea I did,

Thank the TPTB that it was "Only" an F1...I had the unfortunate luck to have to be escorted by the Ks State police thru Greensburg three hours after their F5,(Part of my delivery route) Never in my life have I seen total destruction like that EVER! I'll take a hurricane any day!

[LibDemAlways]

22. Senior year in high school I took Economics with a young teacher

who so wanted to be liked by the students that he forgot to mention the subject at hand. He'd simply conduct a daily bull session - whatever was on anyone's mind. Toward the end of the semester he realized he needed to have some basis on which to grade the class, so he assigned a one page paper on any economist of our choice. Easiest A ever.

I didn't learn a thing about economics, but his class was entertaining as hell.

[Odin2005]

23. Intro to Historical Linguistics.

That was fucking awesome. best was the current controversial stuff, like the Austronesian-Tai, Indo-Uralic, Na-Dene-Ket, and Nostratic hypotheses; controversies over the relationships between Native American language families; and internal reconstructions of Proto-Indo-European. So very interesting! The course also covered linguistic typology and how languages cycle between Isolating (English, Chinese, Hawaiian), Agglutinating (Turkish, Inuit, Finnish, spoken French) and Fusional (Latin, German, Russian, Cherokee) over time, with grammar words being slurred into affixes, separate affixes fusing together, and then affixes being lost.

[jobycom]

25. Reading and Writing Texts, at UT Dallas.

The course had two professors and was required for an Interdisciplinary Major. The point was to show us how different backgrounds and different knowledge made us understand a text differently.

The structure was simple. We read "Media" by Euripides every week. The first week we just discussed what we thought of the whole theme, of the different characters, of Media's murdering her children, and all that.

The second week we learned a little about the mythology of Media and Jason, and reread it, then discussed how our understanding of the themes changed, and how our interpretations of the actions changed. This was the literature discipline.

Over the course, we studied the art of Athens, other plays and treatments of Media in Greece, the history of Athens, the social and cultural settings including ideas of family and love, and things like that.

Then we shifted to other fields--Freudian psychology, current gender psychological analysis, philosophical and theological concepts of gender and how they changed over the millenia, even modern feminist thought.

Each week we would talk about how our understanding of the play "Media" changed. At first it was just a study of how knowing more about the contemporary culture helped us understand the complexity of the play. Then it became a study of how our own perceptions, created in part by the western history of learning, science, medicine, psychology, and even love songs, completely shaped our entire concept of gender, ethics, marriage, morality, children, and even nationalism and patriotism--all the themes of the play--and how completely different those were than the same concepts an Athenian would have seen in the play.

That one course probably taught me more than every other course I've taken at a university--and that's been more than you'd believe. You read news stories differently. You understand scientific reports differently. You question everything. Every statement is a question to be analyzed. Everything is context, and our understanding of context is always limited by what we know.

Anyway, that was the first one that came to mind.

[lovemydog]

26. Political economy

in college. A wonderful class that helped me think critically when reading any type of writing on economics and politics.

[JCMach1]

27. Graduate School- Modern Irish Poetry also The History of the Body

[hobbit709]

28. European History 1789-1914

Prof who taught it had done his doctorate on that period and he had all sorts of little tidbits that didn't get into the textbooks

[CBR]

29. Grad School -- Processes of Social Inquiry... nt

[hippywife]

30. Drawing in high school.

We always had models and this was no sit down with a pencil class. Everyone stood while working with charcoal and newsprint. We built some huge still life settings to draw when we didn't have available models. The room was always dark with spots on whatever we were drawing and the music was cranked pretty loud.

[JTG of the PRB]

31. "J.R.R. Tolkien and Fantasy" in my final year of college

The teacher was amazing, by the second day of class he knew everybody's name, and he was a wonderful little old man who knew so much and was so funny. Not to mention that the centerpiece of the class was reading the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy over a period of six weeks and discussing it in class. That was, far and away, the favorite class that I ever took when I was in college.

[GoCubsGo]

32. Invertebrate Zoology

No, not the study of our spineless Democratic Congress. It was a two quarter course, and it came with some great field trips. It also involved spending lots of time looking through a microscope, which is one of my most favorite pastimes--especially when I get to look at live critters.

[Tikki]

33. Mr. Salazar (RIP)...Music History

I had his very last class before he retired after a brazillion years of teaching.
He loved the history of music and he passed that love right on to the students in his class.
Boy did he have some great stories to tell.

My archeology professor...Did his field work in Peru, of course now, I will always want to
go to Peru and follow in his footsteps.

My geology professor...I received a perfect grade in her class...only class in which I got a perfect grade.
She did her field work in Hawaii and we called her Dr. Volcanology.

And the most interesting professor I had was a cultural anthropology professor. His class was on
Pacific Island Cultures and he had lived in the Pacific as a young anthropologist before the war and
stayed on Papua New Guinea during the war and continued there for some years after...his perspective on the culture
and history there was so amazing. I used to run to class so I could get a good seat up front, not to miss a word.



Tikki

[applegrove]

43. You have the perfect nickname for a cultural anthropology student. LOL!

[Maccagirl]

34. High school American History

I had a wonderful teacher who was a walking encyclopedia on the Revolutionary War.

[old mark]

35. Lunch. nt

[Bertha Venation]

36. college -- basics of athletic training, 1982

I rocked it.

[WinkyDink]

37. Undergrad = British & Irish Drama with Stanley Weintraub (PSU). Grad School = Milton.

Stanley Weintraub:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Weintraub
http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Stanley-Weintraub/1064729

[Duer 157099]

38. Medical Terminology in High School

I've have plenty of really great courses, but this was the first one that actually stayed with me and helped in nearly every facet of my life.

[bif]

39. Etymology

[Moondog]

40. Constitutional Law.

Both semesters. It even beat anything I took to satisfy my LL.M. requirements. A real eye-opener, in addition to being inherently fascinating.



:patriot:

[AsahinaKimi]

42. A course on

The Edo Period of Japan. Amazing stuff. It made me appreciate the period pieces and the movies of
Akira Kurosawa, all the more.

[applegrove]

44. Ever heard of the artist Mitsuaki Sora? I have a print of his. My mom got it from a friend of hers

who collected japanese prints in the 1960s.

[AsahinaKimi]

46. Here:

Mitsuaki Sora was born in Hiroshima. He graduated from Tama College of Fine Arts. The artist is a well-known sculpturer who is specialized in stone sculptures. Mitsuaki Sora is also very active in woodblock printmaking since the 1960s. His designs look like the pieces of a puzzle in strong colors and his style is unique.

http://www.artelino.com/forum/artists.asp?act=&art=952&alp=m&cay=1&cp=3&sea=&tie=Mitsuaki%20Sora%20born%201933

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/mitsuaki-sora-japanese-woodblock-66086840

interesting! He seems to have quite a bit of info on him via google.

[applegrove]

48. Thanks. My brother lives in Japan and I plan on giving it to him.

[mtowngman]

45. World Masterpieces I at Rutgers Camden

Best lecturer ever, hung on his every word. I was introduced to Homer, Dante, Sophocles, Euripides. I could take this class over and over. (didn't have to, got an A the first time.)

[Jade Fox]

47. 8th grade social studies......

My Conservative teacher made me realize I was a leftist.

[applegrove]

50. Too bad he doesn't know this. LOL!

[carlyhippy]

49. Art

I loved being creative, inspired and studying with like-minded mostly enlightened people.

[flvegan]

51. United Animal Nations Emergency Animal Rescue Service

First responders course. Mandatory to volunteer as an EARS responder.

It was a great course. Several hours of intense rescue training. The best part was that once I decided to take it, I urged some of my activist friends to do so as well. So, in the class of around 50 folks, they had 10 pretty hardcore AR/liberationists in that class. For the situational "final" I headed up one team and my buddy headed up another. We shocked the hell out of the training staff with what we came up with. By the end of the course, they were all pretty damn impressed and I've been called to serve a number of times.

[shanti]

52. it's a tossup

between abnormal psych and art history. both of the profs were great though.

[petronius]

53. Probably "Islands and Oceans" with Bernard Nietschmann back when

I was an undergrad. The maps from this class were some of my primary wall hangings for years afterward...

[Forkboy]

54. Art History

[tishaLA]

55. Undergrad. Intro to Women's Studies

My prof was really influential to me and told me I should read a book by someone I'd never heard of--Judith Butler. If I ever had any questions that I would be an academic, they ended when I encountered that book.

[hayu_lol]

57. An English class...

The Poetry And Science Of The 17th Century.

All the metaphysical poetry coupled with the science of the Enlightenment.

Pitzer College, Claremont CA

Drs: Ron Rubin and Barry Sanders

[Lindsey]

58. My Literature classes, my History classes, Geology, I loved

almost all of my classes.

[ChoralScholar]

56. EDUC 4503 - School Law - EOM

[HERVEPA]

60. Calculus - high school - best teacher I ever had - Mr. Howarth

[Lucian]

61. Research Methods in Archaeology and Field Methods in Archaeology.

Both went together for a total of nine credits.

I love doing Archaeology field work. :)

[AngryAmish]

62. Statistics!

Lots of stata as an econ major. Very, very useful.

[Shell Beau]

81. I hate math, but I did enjoy that class as well.

[One_Life_To_Give]

63. Analogue Circuit Design

Grad night school.
With a close second to Design of Combustion Engines.
Evening Grad school with prof's who work full time in industry can be really cool.

[TrogL]

65. Sex Role Stereotypes in Education

Taught by a shaved-head lesbian decades before this was anywheres near the norm.

Spent the first week on symbolic logic and logical fallacies.

Spent the rest of the course destroying everything anybody thought they knew about gender stereotypes.

One poor football player took it as an elective 'cause he thought it would be an easy course. He usually ended up in tears before class was over he was so frustrated.

Typical transaction -

Football player: Women belong in the kitchen.
Instructor: So why are most chefs men?

Football player: Men are better at business because they're more aggressive. Women negotiate.
Instructor: Management (and most of business) is the fine art of negotiating contracts or employee relations. Why aren't there more women managers?

[mike_c]

76. my ex teaches courses like that today....

Sociology, etc. Her signature courses are Human Sexuality and Women's Studies. We have the most fascinating conversations.

[TrogL]

66. Sex Role Stereotypes in Education

Taught by a shaved-head lesbian decades before this was anywheres near the norm.

Spent the first week on symbolic logic and logical fallacies.

Spent the rest of the course destroying everything anybody thought they knew about gender stereotypes.

One poor football player took it as an elective 'cause he thought it would be an easy course. He usually ended up in tears before class was over he was so frustrated.

Typical transaction -

Football player: Women belong in the kitchen.
Instructor: So why are most chefs men?

Football player: Men are better at business because they're more aggressive. Women negotiate.
Instructor: Management (and most of business) is the fine art of negotiating contracts or employee relations. Why aren't there more women managers?

[Art_from_Ark]

67. Introduction to Translation

That was one of my favorite classes. Everyone would translate a story or poem from another language, and everyone else would critique it. I liked the course so much, I took it again just to get different perspectives.

For the next-to-last class of the second course, we were supposed to meet at the professor's house, because he had a special guest lined up to critique the translations-- Omar Pound. I had translated the Japanese story Urashima Taro for this special class. Unfortunately, I got lost and couldn't find the professor's house-- and he had an unlisted telephone number. So I didn't make it. The next class, I was told that Mr. Pound was very eager to critique my translation, but they kept telling him to wait because I wasn't there. I never arrived, and he was not able to discuss my translation. I still kick myself when I think about that missed opportunity.

And on a side note, I just saw on the Internet the Mr. Pound passed away this past May. RIP, Omar Pound.

[Steely_Dan]

68. Comparative Lit Class

Changed my life.

[jmowreader]

70. Blowing Shit Up with Staff Sergeant Roy

An element of the 10th Special Forces Group had to come to Fort Drum to practice being trainers. The only unit that would allow them to do it was the one I was in. At the same time, these guys had to set off a few hundred pounds of high explosives to maintain proficiency--so they packed two deuce-and-a-halves with C-4, TNT, dynamite and det cord, and put a shitload of detonators in a third vehicle, then came to Fort Drum.

Naturally, the first thing these assholes did was get me to call Range Control and ask how much high explosive could be set off in one detonation on Fort Drum. The conversation follows:

Me: "My unit is training with Special Forces engineers and they wish to know what is the most high explosive they can set off in one blast."
Range Control: "How much high explosive do you have on the range at this moment?"
Me: "Not sure, but they've got a stack of explosives cases about three feet high in the back of two deuce-and-a-halves. They have C-4, dynamite and TNT."
Range Control: "Packed solid, right?"
Me: "Yeah, seems to be."
Range Control: "Oh, it's a lot more than that."

It turns out to be something like eight TONS of high explosive in one shot.

[ProfessorGAC]

95. Did That Too

Not with Sargeant Roy. But, with the A.C.E. Helped decommission an arsenal. Learned how to build 'em, how to shape 'em, and how to blow 'em up.

Big fun. And, i got grad school credit for it. Pretty cool class!
GAC

[PassingFair]

72. Philosophy 101

What?

Taught me to question LOTS of things
I took for granted.

Set me on a path to learn on my own.

Hot PA didn't hurt.

:)

[Rambis]

73. Love, Power and Justice---deconstructionist philosophy course

:toast:

[Arugula Latte]

74. An undergrad Shakespeare course at UC Berkeley.

It was heavenly. :loveya:

[suninvited]

75. hydrotherapy

when I was in massage school.

[Shell Beau]

80. American Government and Cultural Diversity

[lazarus]

82. Symbolic Logic

Loved that class. Totally changed the way I think. I also appreciated the Philosophy of Religion class. The teacher helped crystallize my views on things. They didn't change, I just came to realize that the position I had held for years was, in fact, atheism.

Edited for a typo fix.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

84. Uhm Santa Teresa and San Jose Muni, but

I don't play nearly the amount of Golf that the Boner plays.

[meow2u3]

86. American history in my first year of college

My history prof not only was a lefty, the textbook itself had a strong left-wing bias. :D

Some of the passages in the text openly criticized corporate lawyers rewriting the Constitution to suit their financial interests. Not only that, but my term paper was about Nixon and Watergate--and that was in 1984, 10 years after Nixon resigned. Needless to say, I got an A in the course. :)

[Rhythm]

87. American Political Philosophy

The purpose of the class was to read and dissect the founding documents of the original colonies, the better to understand the influences of such documents on the writing of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution.

It's come in amazingly handy in other classes, as well as in discussing history and politics.

[MrCoffee]

92. LAWI 9380 - Federal Jurisdiction

A fantastic course on 42 USC 1983

The class was subtitled "How to Sue the Government"

[mvd]

94. I enjoyed Poetry in college, as I love to write.

I would have loved the computer languages course in college if the professor was decent. I enjoyed some of my continuing education computer courses. I always liked history/social studies in high school.