<p>For the win!</p>
<p>I took Advanced Surfing at San Diego State. Having just transferred in, it was actually a pretty cool deal. The first day of class we met down at the Mission Bay Aquatic Center. We went around the room and each of named a favorite surf spot around town. Each week we met at a different spot. </p>
<p>And yes, I got an A. </p>
<p>Fun thread! Hubby and I took ballroom dance together. My other “fluffy” class as Intro to Aviation, where we just learned about jobs in the industry. A class that I thought would be “fluffy”, but wasn’t, was Interior Decorating. Who would have thought there were so many fabrics and furniture styles? </p>
<p>was Interior Decorating. Who would have thought there were so many fabrics and furniture styles?>>>>>>></p>
<p>Me!! Way too many.</p>
<p>I’m surprised at the number of you who had P.E. requirements. I had none (for college). I hit that sweet spot between my parent’s generation who all had to take “Phys Ed” in college, and my daughter’s generation who all take “Wellness.”</p>
<p>I loathed and detested every minute of P.E. in junior high and high school. I wouldn’t have minded today’s Wellness requirements, which seem to include options for the uncoordinated, and for the non-team-sport types… D, who’s a lot more physical than I ever was, took a yoga class. Her participation on the dance team fulfilled the rest of it. </p>
<p>Mine was called “The Biology and Appreciation of Companion Animals.” 3 credits of a biological science to talk about setting up and maintaining a fish tank. </p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve had any classes that I’d consider to be ‘fluff.’ But I have had a few that were quite easy. I took an Intro to American Politics and Government class online last summer. It was blindingly simple. I seriously think one would literally have to TRY to not get an A in that class. All we had to do in that class was read the chapter, then go online and take a quiz over the chapter. The quizzes had 25 multiple choice questions, and were all open book/open note(although I took not one single note in that class). At the end of each chapter there was a “What Would You Do?” question that basically posed a hypothetical bill that was being voted on. We had to choose to vote for or against it, then post our choice with a short paragraph explaining our reasoning on the online discussion board. Then we had to reply to at least two other posts. </p>
<p>That was it. No exams. No midterm. No final. No papers. Just that. I finished the class with 100%. </p>
<p>The History of Rock and Roll Music, Stony Brook University. Three hundred kids in a lecture hall.</p>
<p>I took a course in French New Wave Film in Paris one summer. 5 credit course and all he wanted at the end was a 2 page paper. The course was incredibly interesting though and led to a lifetime of film appreciation. The professor showed us some incredibly cool films, some of which I still am unable to find in the U.S.</p>
<p>History of Jazz at 8 A.M., put a bullet in my brain. I want to see a study of the suicide rate of professors who teach fluff gen ed courses to freshman who are forced to take the class. What a miserable existence!</p>
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<p>Perhaps that is a realistic introduction to politics and government at the lowest level. You either go to some place on a specific day to fill in a paper filled with multiple choice questions, or have such a paper mailed to you so that you can fill it in at home and mail it back. You can have open books when you are answering the multiple choice questions.</p>
<p>The fluffiest class that I ever took, was a charcoal drawing class. At the end of the semester, we all sat in a circle and informed the class what our final grade would be, based on sincere self evaluation of course 
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<p>I went to a Jesuit school and had to take three semesters of religion. I chose a class on religious cults. Every week members of a different religious cult would come in and speak. I’m not sure how the prof pulled that off. So interesting but very easy.</p>
<p>idiot999, my very first quarter in college, I took a class called Architecture 101. It was a survey class for non-majors, big lecture hall, 8:30 class. The prof would frequently turn down the lights and do slideshows of whatever architectural principle he was lecturing on. The slideshows were often accompanied by Gregorian chanting for some reason. That could put me to sleep in seconds flat!</p>
<p>But in that class I was exposed for the first time to two things which have been important to me in the intervening 40 years. For the first time, I smelled portable coffee from the person sitting next to me (this was pre-Starbucks). And it was the first time I ever heard Pachelbel’s Canon.</p>
<p>Hard to think of fluff courses. I took a course on the symphony but we diagrammed themes and it was fascinating. But lots of math, statistics and economics didn’t leave time for fluff. I did take a course in symbolic logic to meet a distribution requirement. It was trivial for me but I don’t think for the typical philosophy major. Not sure that counts but it was my easiest course in college. </p>
<p>Psych444. There were films, filmstrips and other stuff. If you missed a film, then you could go watch it in the library (I was too embarrased to do that – back then). The standard funny questions always revolved around what we’d be doing in lab. No lab. And I’m not saying the course name. If you know what it is, then you know the alma mater and you know what I mean. Was only open to Seniors. I wonder if it still exists. Oh – just saw above that it was called Clap for Credit at their school!! Lol @atomom and @SyrAlum. </p>
<p>Fluff!! I changed majors for more fluff and got plenty!!! Outside of my major, I took the History of Rock and Roll and Jazz (who didn’t when it was offered it seems), bowling and a class before I transferred called Parks and Recreation (about being a park ranger, iirc). Transferred and got a load of fluff like Alcohol (a study of addiction mostly), Serial Killers (totally cool because they put Ted Bundy down that semester), Abnormal Psych, and also took the not-as-fluffy-as-it-sounded Human Sexuality (I got my only freaking B). Law Enforcement and Police Science, the FLUFFY, FUN major!!! </p>
<p>An honors seminar called “Anthropology in Science Fiction.”</p>
<p>SOUNDS like fluff, or ACTUAL fluff? I took a Core course called Human Behavioral Biology, colloquially known as Sex. Sounds fluffy, but it wasn’t, except insofar as it was designed for non-science-types. What was actually fluffy was my Psych 101 class. It was full-on condescending.</p>
<p>Psych 101 must be fluff to me because I don’t remember reading anything except I do remember there is a reason why phone number is 7-digit.</p>
<p>The phonological loop!</p>