The way you think about people, your outlook on life, how you solve problems. Anything beyond the scope of just that class that made you feel like your eyes were opened after taking the class.
Posted Sep 29, 2016, 6:36 PM UTC
Seriously, take Designing Life (GRA101) or Finding Purpose (GRA440).
Both are taught by Wil Heywood. They're design courses in name only--that old dude's brilliant.
The class itself is basically meditation, creative problem solving, time management, and personality tests/navel gazing--you'll mostly be changed by the genius tangents and anecdotes the prof goes on.
Currently in GRA440. Can confirm. Heywood is a character out of your favorite novel. If you can take this class it will change your whole perspective on life and help you understand it.
SES 106: Habitable Worlds - this just sort of opened my eyes to how small we are in the universe and how little we matter. Actually made me more motivated to be more sustainable with our resources for the time being.
CON 294: Deductive Leadership/Information - I don't know if it was just this course or if it was other factors at the time as well, but it really helped me understand that I have no control over others - only control over myself. How I react to others is entirely on me.
On another note, my Voluntary Action and Leadership Nonprofit class really changed my perspective as a freshman coming into college with a "save the world" complex. Change isn't just a matter of throwing money at people and expecting things to "get better," especially when their definition of "better" is completely different than ours.
CSE355, Intro to Theoretical Computer Science. It really changes the way you think of computers, and dismantles the common belief that "computers can do anything."
For me it was cultural psychology and prejudice/stereotyping/and discrimination. Both shed a lot of light on the science of things we don't typically look at in a scientific way as normal people.
Lol then you apply it and get called a racist. "Trust me guys, black people are faster. Its science!"
That's not what the class was about, it was about they science of how prejudices work. The coolest thing to learn about that applies to other areas of life was affordance management theory. You should look it up cause it's really interesting.
Probably Thermo 1 or 2.
Everything is heat :o
Except radiation, we ignore that.
What about a fart?
POS300 - contemporary global controversies. It focused on terrorism and privacy. Some of the best reading I've done. Learning about ISIS and the history/formation of terrorism has given me new insight into Middle East politics. And it was pretty fun.
Seconded - I loved this class so much, and the professor was great.
POS 467 International Security & Conflict changed the way I view conflict in the world, heavily.
HON 370 History of Ideas (the upper division equivalent to The Human Event) changed the way I viewed other people's experiences. A lot of people apparently don't like the class but it had a profound impact on me.
On that note, Human Event changed my way of thinking a lot from life lessons such as self-control to developing my critical thinking in writing an argument
Ah self control! I agree!
Who'd you have History of Ideas with?
Dr. Waters. It also helped that many people in my class were really cool and brilliant.
MAT 275 (differential equations) and IAS 340 (bioethics)
CSE310
Previously thought computer theory was a boring. This course showed me just how important abstract thinking is in computer science.
Both life and GPA altering >.>
Is it really as tough as everyone makes it out to be, or is it more like if you aren't prepared and have a solid foundation, you won't do well?
It's tougher than all the classes that come before it, but very reasonable. They give you all the tools you need to succeed on tests. Programming assignments are longer, and you are forced to figure out more for yourself than in 240 for example.
Yea what everyone says is that it's killer and a super hard class. But a lot of students aren't willing to learn outside of what they are taught in class. At least that's the impression I get. I'm sure I'll find out soon enough though.
It was a philosophy class - PHI494, God and the Problem of Evil. How evil and suffering exists is a world with the claim of an omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent deity in the Western religious tradition.
PHI105, Introduction to Logic. How to examine argumentation from both deductive and inductive points. What are logical fallacies and their presence in everyday life.
Modernism if they still teach it. Its an advanced lit class but the writers and pieces it exposed to me at 19 was so beneficial. It introduced me to my favorite books and style and changed what I look for in a story.
EEE 460 / Nuclear power engineering, makes you question the possible 'design' of life.
Cross Cultural Management. We learned all the different ways other cultures operate and what they value, from Korea to Iran and Indonesia, and it was fascinating to learn how to describe different cultural mores in detail. Plus the case studies you review are all real-world stories and most are pretty fascinating
Best class I ever took was American History 1 & 2 over the summer at Mesa Community. A real adult look at American history instead of the usual kid friendly shit you got in jr high. Was a small class (about 20 seats) and the professor really cared about history and interacted with the class the entire time.
American history was one of my favorite subjects in high school so I bet I would have loved that class.
MAT 300 Mathematical Structures.
MAT300
why?
Presumably he was responding to the particular part of the prompt that asked what class affected how you solve problems.