<p>So, I was accepted to Brown and I’m incredibly excited. I was looking through the course catalog (I grabbed one when I visited earlier this year) and I was a bit surprised. I always hear people talk about how fascinating and relevant and accessible (etc. etc. etc.) Brown’s courses are, but I was dissapointed by what I found in the course catalog. The descriptions of the courses seemed, in general, very theoretical and abstract…nothing really caught my attention. I am hoping that this is just an example of Brown being bad at wording the course descriptions in a gripping way, but I am not sure. </p>
<p>If any current students or anyone else who actually KNOWS the Brown courses could just talk about te course offerings in general, I would really appreciate that. I am also particularly interested in the Modern Culture and Media concentration if anyone can shed any light on that (it seemed verrry theoretical and abstract from the course descrpitions…not exactly what I want). Look in the Dartmouth or Wesleyan course catalogs for examples of course descriptions that seem very interesting. I hope my worries about Brown’s courses are unfounded, but please enlighten me either way…thanks so much!</p>
<p>pleeeease anyone…im worried!</p>
<p>Wow… when I looked through the course catelogue for the first time, I felt like a kid in a candy shop. I just wanted to take everything! I’m now in the process of picking courses for my third semester. Narrowing the many fascinating options down to just four courses is one of my biggest challenges here. I haven’t taken a single class that I regret or found boring.</p>
<p>What is it about Brown’s courses that make them seem boring to you in comparison to Dartmouth and Wesleyan’s?</p>
<p>The MCMC website is incredibly lame. Hopefully, it doesn’t reflect the actual class content. :)</p>
<p>i just think they are written in a very dry manner. brown has a rep for creating that “candy shop” sensation, so that is why I was surprised by the course catalog. I am mostly referring to the Modern Culture and Media department courses. I guess I thought there would be a lot of good production courses and things like “Weimar Cinema” and “Reality TV” but all I see is “Introduction to Cinematic Coding and Narrativity” and the like</p>
<p>You gotta build to those classes with foundational theory, they’re still offered, but you have to get there first.</p>
<p>What about creative writing classes at Brown? I noticed they have courses like fiction writing, fantasy novels, etc.</p>
<p>Courses are beyond amazing. Espicially since you can create your own if you can get a faculty sponsor for an independent study.</p>
<p>Well, I really enjoyed LA0011 which was a fiction seminar. As for MCM, I haven’t taken any courses there but I’ve heard from a friend who may want to concentrate that they ARE heavy on things like media critical theory, at least, early on, etc. There are many great and fascinating courses. If you want to see some of hte most fun descriptions (but not necessarily classes), check out Religious Studies, History, and American Civ departments. They have some pretty wacky sounding classes.</p>
<p>Hey, ILoveBrown, I am looking for a non-work intensive fourth course that doesnt meet on Th from 1-6. Any ideas?</p>
<p>modestmelody,</p>
<p>How non-intensive are you looking for? And what are you interested in?</p>
<p>modestmelody – Take Psych 55, Introduction to Sleep. It meets Mondays from 3:00 to 5:20. I took this class the fall of my freshman year. Although it’s fairly easy (a small amount of reading each week, an easy midterm, easy final, and a medium-sized project at the end of the year), you’ll learn so much fascinating information about sleep and the brain. Professor Carskadon is an expert in her field, and is doing a lot of the current research about sleep that you see in the news. She’s a fabulous lecturer (really funny) and makes the two and a half hours go by really fast. This class literally changed my life and made me take a much healthier attitude toward sleep. I can’t recommend this class enough!</p>
<p>This is a great example of a class with a boring-sounding description that turns out to be a lot of fun.</p>
<p>I really don’t see how someone could look at our course catalog and be bored…</p>
<p>Pretty non-intense. I dont want to have to spend 10 hours a week on the class, heavy on reading then it shoul dbe very weak on assignments, heavy on assignments, looking for the assignments to be shorter, etc.</p>
<p>Psych 55 definitely fits that description (light on reading and assignments).</p>