<p>I was reading another post who said “College is for learning and growing…” and I couldn’t agree more!<br>
Did you take classes in college judt “for fun?” I did! “Love Jealousy & Envy” was one and another was Community Psych. It was volunteer class that was an easy A - the funny thing is it led me to what became my career - special ed.</p>
<p>My Computer Science major D took an Opera class (appreciation - not singing) and really enjoyed it.</p>
<p>Best class I took in college was Chinese Landscape Painting in the Sung Dynasty.</p>
<p>Bowling… for college credit. phys ed requirement.</p>
<p>Art History (premed major). Loved it.</p>
<p>Son: Computer Science major. Took Play Writing. Also Piano Performance. A good break from sitting at the monitor.</p>
<p>Heresy and Witchcraft…a J term history class.</p>
<p>Medieval Italian Paeleography as a senior. Enabled me as a grad student to read and research original texts in Italy.</p>
<p>Ironically it’s my “oh rats, I need another fine arts credit” class that I took P/F my last semester that I find gets me more props from my co-workers… yes, it was that old humerous stand-by of flower arranging. (one up from underwaterbasketweaving) I’m not an artistic person but there are a few basic design principles that can help you run events. Odd numbers, off center focus, fill in with “foo-foo” stuff, pick a theme… it’s not hard and can actually save money. You can design a table-scape for the new teacher’s wedding shower using things on hand and a few balloons and blossoms, $10 fern from Home Depot and such…</p>
<p>dragonmom, I would’ve loved to have taken flower arranging! I remember taking weight training with my roommate for our PE req. because we were bored with “jazzercise”. We were sore after each workout - but in great shape for that summer!!</p>
<p>Cross country skiing - best PE class ever! :D</p>
<p>For me, it was a creative writing Honors seminar I took in my freshman year. Granted, I was rather shy, naive, inexperienced and generally clueless when I started college and I’m not sure what I was expecting from this class - but it wasn’t nude models! :)</p>
<p>I took calligraphy and I have used it quite a bit since college.</p>
<p>Electrical engineer here who took lots of music classes (music history, voice lessons, chorus for credit multiple times) plus a cosmology class, an astronomy class titled “Life Beyond Earth” and one called “Zen and the Art of Lawnmower Repair” that involved tinkering around with small engines.</p>
<p>Topics and Problems in Consumer Living. Got on the bus once a week and went to 3 different grocery stores and did a price check on several different items (same items each week) turned it into the school newspaper. I guess they thought everyone had a burning need to have the price of a lb of yellow onions and a lb of hamberger every week.</p>
<p>“Indoor plants and flowers,” which also included flower arranging. It was a very popular class (in the 70s) b/c you could take as many cutting of plants as you wished. It was just delightful to work in the huge greenhouse and take care of your own little shelf of plants. We did all sorts of projects and had to memorize the name and appearance of over 100 plants. I have perennial gardens today and it all started there in that greenhouse.</p>
<p>White Collar Crime, and adored every second of it.</p>
<p>Took bowling, snorkeling (in a swimming pool), jewelrymaking & metalwork, conversational Spanish. Loved all of these courses as it gave me an opportunity to explore & do things outside of my major, Sociology. In law school, I took tumbling & gymnastics as well as TM (transcendental meditation). Those courses got me no “credit” but kept me sane & flexible–the TM saved me from needing anesthesia in childbirth!</p>
<p>My son (the mechanical engineering major) took ballroom dance with a bunch of friends! They had a great time. </p>
<p>I took my “off track” French classes to another level, and kept taking them until I had a BA in French to go with the BS in Math. But it FELT off-track when I was taking Optics and Abstract Algebra and Statistics and… Survey of 20th Century French Literature. It was a whole other world.</p>
<p>W-a-y back in the day, I took Homeric Greek during Jan Plan. Also did bowling and folk dance for PE credit.</p>
<p>My required senior Interdisiplinary seminar was on the issue of Pornography - 80% of the senior class wanted to take Porno (more for the two very popular professors on campus that taught it than for the subject matter), and I was one of the lucky lottery winners. Yes we saw flicks…the class was worth it even though it was one of the hardest-graded classes I took, just missed cum laude since the profs did not like my paper position very much : (</p>