<p>Lenny:Probably the best science class for non-science people off the top of my head would be Catania’s neuroethology class (I took the seminar for a major seminar requirement, but talking to someone in the full class it seems the lecture content is largely the same). The class tours different animal sensory systems and their relation to behavior. It’s essentially a live national geographic/discovery channel special every lecture (though the seminar was structured as a discussion), and Catania’s a wonderful teacher and very engaging (and very smart – eg, he got a macarthur genius grant a few years ago). He also brings in animals (he brought in baby alligators and eggs for us to watch hatch, owls, hawks, an opossum, etc.), which is awesome.</p>
<p>Otherwise just go with prior interest/rmp. I might love, say, virology, but if your kid’s science interests lie in cosmology or something that’s what they should take.</p>
<p>Persian:Orgo’s a bit rough (went in expecting to be able to dick off and get by and got destroyed first semester + lots of people retake it and the retakers tend to screw up the curve for the first timers), so if you take any summer class I’d take that one. Physics was obnoxiously easy at Vandy.</p>