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07-15-2009, 11:54 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
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| Electives/Fun/Interesting classes
What electives have you taken and are planning to take this fall just because you're interested in them? What was worth it, what wasn't? I have two free spaces, and I'm taking 2 different languages classes: contemporary literature of my native tongue, and French conversation. Really excited! What about you?
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07-16-2009, 12:16 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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I'm taking French I and Tagalog I this fall for fun. In the Spring, I'm going to take either Tennis or Bowling.
I've taken random literature classes (lower level ones that don't count for my major) for fun. Last semester I took "American Masculinity in 20th Century American Lit and Film," and while studying abroad I took 15 credits worth of Spanish classes that didn't count for my English major (6 of them did form the beginning of a Spanish minor, though).
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07-16-2009, 03:39 AM
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#3 | | Junior Member
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I'm not taking any electives this semester. But next Spring I'm considering trying Japanese. If not I'll probably do something related with Journalism or even Kinesiology.
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07-16-2009, 04:51 AM
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I'll probably doing Beginning or Intermediate Weightlifting.
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07-19-2009, 07:53 AM
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#5 | | Senior Member
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My favorite 'only-for-fun' classes were 'History of the Modern Middle East' and all of the anthropology classes that had nothing to do with my major. Now I have a minor in it.
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07-19-2009, 09:27 AM
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#6 | | Member
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My step-brother is taking "The History of Torture" class next semester
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07-19-2009, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by WantsBrown My step-brother is taking "The History of Torture" class next semester | In my limited experience courses with fun names are incredibly workload-heavy.
Also, probably not the best course to have on your transcript if you apply to med school.
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07-19-2009, 01:00 PM
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#8 | | Member
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Advanced Organic Chemistry is my elective.
For some reason I like filling up my free electives with more science courses. Medical microbiology, behavioral pharmacology, and advanced organic....they just interest me and I want to take them rather than some history or sociology bullcrap class
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07-19-2009, 01:02 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
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I'd like to take an Introduction to Modern Torture class.
I bet there's a lot of evil hand rubbing and exchanging shifty glances in there.
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07-19-2009, 01:07 PM
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#10 | | Member
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I'm interested in taking some P.E. classes, like tennis and dance, but I'll probably wait until I transfer to a four-year school to take them.
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07-19-2009, 01:26 PM
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#11 | | Senior Member
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Weight Training & Rock N Roll History
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07-19-2009, 07:08 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member
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Intro to Human Sexuality. It was basically Sex Ed for college kids, and if you went to class it was an easy A.
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07-19-2009, 07:40 PM
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history of the US NAVY!
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07-19-2009, 09:57 PM
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#14 | | Junior Member
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I took a semester of Japanese, and I really didn't like it as much as I thought I would (and I had already taken 6 years of the language before college). I haven't taken an elective since, unfortunately.
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07-19-2009, 10:11 PM
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Social Psychology was pretty interesting.
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