Comments on: 12 College Classes We Wish Our Schools Had Offered

By: TalkyTina

TalkyTina — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:37:43 +0000

Another class I recall fondly from JMU was a class on psychological testing. We would take all sorts of psych evals, and then score and analyze them. I also remember doing a project, one of a choice of about a dozen, where I visited my old high school and reviewed my records. Being a somewhat brainy juvenile delinquent, it was interesting. Sadly, my professor passed away just after the semester ended. RIP Dr. Eby.

By: TalkyTina

TalkyTina — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:31:33 +0000

At James Madison U, there are still two things I recall clearly from my Death and Dying class 20 years ago. One was when my professor brought in a glass jar containing the remains of his cremated dog. The other was getting a B+ on my will. How do you grade a will?

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:38:00 +0000

I tool a class as an undergrad called “Religious and Philosophical Dimensions of Country and Western Music”. It covered mostly the early days of Western music like Sons of the Pioneers, though, not stuff like Kenny Chesney and Hank Williams Jr. (Although I seem to remember his father being mentioned in the latter part of the course.)

By: Courtnee

Courtnee — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:02:00 +0000

Danielle: Me too.

Stephen F. Austin State Univeristy offered Philosophy in Harry Potter during my freshmen year. The amount of themes going on in those books is insane, but it was very writing intensive to throw people off. Also, they still offer History of Rock Music, which was my introduction to the Beatles.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:47:00 +0000

I just kinda wish there was at least one college out there in the world that offered all these amazing classes.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:43:00 +0000

At SUNY-Buffalo they offer Communications 497: Cyberporn and Society and an upper level Anthropology course entitled Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery.

By: Emilee

Emilee — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:23:00 +0000

I took a class at the University of Louisville on Fantasy Literature. We read and discussed The Wizard of Oz and the Lord of the Rings, among other books. Best class ever!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:13:00 +0000

The University of Tulsa, Tulsa OK
‘Seeing Through Clothes’ – History
‘Magic Witchcraft and Religion’ – Anthropology

By: bas

bas — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:31:00 +0000

At UNC Greensboro I took a Deadhead sociology course which studied the effect of the Grateful Dead on pop culture and society. I got to write my end-of-term paper on what the dancing bears and skeletons mean; then I took an English class that focused on humor where our main texts were The Onion and books by David Sedaris and our homework was to watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Awesomeness!
Spartan pride!

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:21:00 +0000

I took a course called Famous Jewish Sports Legends. It wasn’t a long class. Hopefully, everyone gets the “Airplane” reference! :o)