Weird Courses You Took in College

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Just a different type of thread----in the early 70's I took basic English class at community college near Chicago (where the Belushi brothers took classes) ---well---instead of English 101---I got to take"film" for the credit----studied movies---made movies---still remember alot about Citizen Kane...
 
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I don't know if I took a lot of weird courses in college, but some abstruse ones. One of my favorite was a Chaucer class. We read The Canterbury Tales in Middle English, and I enjoyed it very much. At the end of the term, we had to write papers- and mine was the theory that Chaucer was a Lollard based on the Parson's Tale.
 
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Galatea said:
I don't know if I took a lot of weird courses in college, but some abstruse ones. One of my favorite was a Chaucer class. We read The Canterbury Tales in Middle English, and I enjoyed it very much. At the end of the term, we had to write papers- and mine was the theory that Chaucer was a Lollard based on the Parson's Tale.
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*****Reading Chaucer is like being on a different planet...
 
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I had to take a class to meet a diversity requirement for my undergrad degree. I took Native American Studies, which was way out in left field compared to my Engineering coursework.
 
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*****Reading Chaucer is like being on a different planet...
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It was a nice planet, a party of disparate people with one goal and a "similar" faith- telling tales as they go along.
 
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Yahweh_is_gracious said:
I had to take a class to meet a diversity requirement for my undergrad degree. I took Native American Studies, which was way out in left field compared to my Engineering coursework.
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*****That's a really different course from your major----I hang out at a resort run by Native Americans----it is cool-----some of them really get radical for Christ when they get saved...
 
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Galatea said:
It was a nice planet, a party of disparate people with one goal and a "similar" faith- telling tales as they go along.
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*****The only thing I read that bugged me as much was Beuwolf----my English teacher was English...
 
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*****The only thing I read that bugged me as much was Beuwolf----my English teacher was English...
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Too bad your English teacher was not Japanese, maybe it would have made Beowulf more exciting like Godzilla.
 
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Too bad your English teacher was not Japanese, maybe it would have made Beowulf more exciting like Godzilla.
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***kids in my town complain all the time about taking courses in Math with Chinese or Japanese profs---can't understand much...
 
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***kids in my town complain all the time about taking courses in Math with Chinese or Japanese profs---can't understand much...
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Who knew numbers were different in Japan and China?
 
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I had to take this health class in community college once and all the instructor could talk about was sex and how easily a young woman can end up with an unplanned pregnancy.
 
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I'm a graduate of a Christian college, so I've taken what many would consider bizarre courses.

Creation Studies is the one I get the most questions about, but it really isn't the most interesting. I think the biggest oddity was the course on relationships taught by a couple.

Some good advice. A great deal of bad advice. Instead of taking notes, I drew pictures of monsters in my textbook. Still got an A.

Why? I excel at remembering bad advice.
 
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See! Monsters make everything more interesting. Especially the big ones that fight in coastal cities.

Galatea said:
Too bad your English teacher was not Japanese, maybe it would have made Beowulf more exciting like Godzilla.
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***kids in my town complain all the time about taking courses in Math with Chinese or Japanese profs---can't understand much...
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Who knew numbers were different in Japan and China?
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Yeah math was the weirdest course i took in college and i HATED it. My friends make fun of me because of what i majored in...they think i love it, so I must be the bizarre one lol
 
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See! Monsters make everything more interesting. Especially the big ones that fight in coastal cities.
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No, just Japanese monsters. English ones, not so much.
 
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Yeah math was the weirdest course i took in college and i HATED it. My friends make fun of me because of what i majored in...they think i love it, so I must be the bizarre one lol
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That is strange, it doesn't compute.
 
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