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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BattleHymn on September 08, 2011, 11:09:52 PM
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-06-11 11:46 PM
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What is the best course you have ever taken. I liked the african history
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class I had in third year university. The professor announced that since we knew nothing about Africa we would be reading African novels all year long. It was wonderful. We would read a novel that touched on some aspect of Africa...then get a history lecture on what was really going on at the time in regards to those issues.
Tikki (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-11 01:13 AM
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1. A Pacific Islands Culture class...
Professor was in PNG pre & war & post. Unique perspective and
an incredibly interesting lecture series.
Tikki
applegrove (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-11 01:16 AM
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2. That does sound interesting. I know so little of Asian history. I've always wanted to know more.
7wo7rees (680 posts) Wed Sep-07-11 02:04 AM
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5. Public Behavior of Groups
Studied I was involved in soccer riots, equal rights marches, and Kent State/Jackson State.
Community Organizing 101
MiddleFingerMom (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-11 02:21 AM
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6. Teaching Art in the Elementary School... took two different levels...
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... but both were basically same class. One day a week book-larnin', one day a week
hands-on arts-and-crafts. How FUN!!!!
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Learned to make paper-mache "balloon" puppets -- which eventually translated into
the 7-foot penis costumes I'd make for Halloween. Special effects which got better
year-after-year. Won every Halloween contest for 10 years in a row.
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bbinacan (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-11 06:25 PM
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11. Military History-Civil War
The highlight was a 4 day field trip touring battlefields in Virginia.
Obvious mole is being obvious. The name of the game here is to shit on American culture and history by propping up turd-world countries studies.
Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-11 06:28 PM
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12. Medieval history during my freshman year at the University of Minnesota
It was a huge lecture course, but I was in an honors section, so we had weekly meetings with the professor every week.
It started with the Germanic tribes and the late Roman Empire and went up to the Renaissance. Fascinating stuff, especially since my family had spent five weeks in Europe just a year before.
Lady President (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-11 06:44 PM
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13. Latin American Literature
It was an elective course that just sounded interesting. The focus was on the mystical-realism style of writing.
Kat45 (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-11 09:12 PM
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14. German Expressionism in its European Context
The professor, Sol Gittleman, was the best lecturer I've ever experienced. He made everything so interesting, I even sought out and attended other lectures he gave after I was out of college. The class covered art, literature, theater, movies. We saw the movies Metropolis and Triumph of the Will. It was my first exposure to Munch's "The Scream." I learned a lot about Weimar Germany, which I was not at all familiar with.
It was a large class, a survey class, but it was excellent. Interestingly it was known as a 'gut class,' which meant it was easy to get a good grade. Because of that, lots of kids took the class and because of the professor, lots of them learned a lot despite themselves.
We're not to far off from being Weimar Germany, thanks to the current occupant of the White Hut.
livetohike (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-11 09:14 PM
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15. History of the Far East - took it in college and found it
fascinating.
Another far out Far East primitive checks in.
CherokeeDem (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-11 11:04 PM
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17. Anthropology
I took it in a summer session. It was an 8am class and it was fantastic. Wonderful professor,his lecture style was articulate, funny and captivating, very interesting material, I couldn't wait to get up and rush to class, it was like an issue of National Geographic every class.
African Boobies 101
handmade34 (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-11 11:17 PM
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18. Transformative Power of Ritual
in Seminary... life altering!!
Drum Circles 101
HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-08-11 10:29 AM
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25. Complex Analysis, but I have to give a nod to Real Analysis BECAUSE...
On my transcript it was listed as "REAL ANAL". I told everyone that's because it had be bent over all semester. But seriously, Complex Analysis was a much harder and much more fun class. Some of the homework problems would take HOURS just to figure out the key to the lock.
The HopeHoops primitive was probably disappointed when he didn't get the backdoor action he was hoping for when he signed up for this one.
LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-08-11 11:25 PM
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32. California History - The prof. tackled the subject by examining
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a variety of controversial issues in the history of the state. No boring timelines or dry recitation of facts. Most interesting college course I ever took.
Fruits and Nuts 101
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I think I took classes similar to most of the ones the DUmmies mentioned. Yay for the History major :-)
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I think that my "best class(es)" were my major related classes - I could see those transforming into a real job. Of those, the best was with a prof that had real world technical experience.
(of course some of the above listed classes from the island "could" be their major related classes, which could explain the lack of success in the real world and subsequent lack of funds to pay off their loans)
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-06-11 11:46 PM
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What is the best course you have ever taken
None of the DUmmies mentioned calculus, or thermodynamics, or organic chemistry. Amazing.
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None of the DUmmies mentioned calculus, or thermodynamics, or organic chemistry. Amazing.
Yup. I noticed that, too. I noticed you are not surprised either. :-)
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DUmmie Culture: Grown in a Petra dish to determine what type infection they have.
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None of the DUmmies mentioned calculus, or thermodynamics, or organic chemistry. Amazing.
I liked organic chemistry so much, I took it twice . . . ::) :banghead:
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I majored in common sense at The School of Hard Knocks! I graduated at the head of my class.
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I majored in common sense at The School of Hard Knocks! I graduated at the head of my class.
That's the one school that no DUmmie would ever attend....and a course they would never take...or if they did, they would fail it.
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-11 06:28 PM
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12. Medieval history during my freshman year at the University of Minnesota
It was a huge lecture course, but I was in an honors section, so we had weekly meetings with the professor every week.
It started with the Germanic tribes and the late Roman Empire and went up to the Renaissance. Fascinating stuff, especially since my family had spent five weeks in Europe just a year before.
I'm not a fan of the boar hog tits, but this post is kind of sad. This one was apparently intelligent enough at one time to be in an "honors section." Then I suppose she was involved in some sort of tragic accident or contracted some terrible disease that lowered her intelligence to such a level that she is stuck posting at DUnceland. Tragic.
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The core of the classes that were favorites of the primitives must have had a lot of emphasis on moaning and complaining and saying really stupid things, because that seems to be what they learned . Of course, a lot of that just comes naturally to them.
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There were a few, listed in the comments, that even I might enjoy.
Did notice one thing.
Of all the mentions of history, one, and only one, was related to American history.
MiddleFingerMom (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-11 02:21 AM
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Learned to make paper-mache "balloon" puppets -- which eventually translated into
the 7-foot penis costumes I'd make for Halloween. Special effects which got better
year-after-year. Won every Halloween contest for 10 years in a row.
This doesn't surprise me at all, considering the poster.
I seriously doubt the so-called contest, was a family affair.
I wonder what first prize was...a girbel, ...new pillow, ...special harness..?
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6. Teaching Art in the Elementary School... took two different levels...
... but both were basically same class. One day a week book-larnin', one day a week
hands-on arts-and-crafts. How FUN!!!!
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Learned to make paper-mache "balloon" puppets -- which eventually translated into
the 7-foot penis costumes I'd make for Halloween. Special effects which got better
year-after-year. Won every Halloween contest for 10 years in a row.
Future headline waiting to happen:
GLAAD and NAMBLA Member Arrested on Charges of Indecency with Minors
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so we had weekly meetings with the professor every week.
English Composition 101 fail. I'm sorry, but "Honors Section" has lost its glow for me. I know a chick who was on the honor roll at school, and she panicked when faced with making change from a $20 bill. With a calculator right in front of her, too.
One of my favorites was Business Law. It was like going to a comedy show.
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A "huge lecture course" in Medieval History?
English 101, yes. Econ 101, maybe yes. Even Philosophy 101, maybe.
Medieval History, bouncy.
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The core of the classes that were favorites of the primitives must have had a lot of emphasis on moaning and complaining and saying really stupid things, because that seems to be what they learned . Of course, a lot of that just comes naturally to them.
I've never been sure what "culture" is, in the sense of taste, other than that people in red states sure seem to have a lot of it.
Excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities, also known as high culture
It seems to me the primitives have confused "culture" with "exotic;" the most boring history classes I ever took involved the history of South America. I had to take those because although I took extensive courses in the history of Africa and Asia, those pertained to the eras of benevolent British domination, and the adviser wanted me a little more "rounded" than that.
The history of South America was boring.
The history of eastern Asia (i.e., China, Japan, Korea, whatnot) was almost as bad a yawner.
Just because something is "different" or "exotic," doesn't make it "culture."
High culture is a term, now used in a number of different ways in academic discourse, whose most common meaning is the set of cultural products, mainly in the arts, held in the highest esteem by a culture.
In more popular terms, it is the culture of an elite such as the aristocracy or intelligentsia. It is contrasted with the low culture or popular culture of, variously, the less well-educated, barbarians, Philistines, or the masses.
The problem with this is that Chaucer and Shakespeare, I suppose now considered "high culture," were at the time of their creation, for the masses, the "low-brows," and not popular with the elites.
I dunno where the primitives get this silly notion they're part of any aristocracy or intelligentsia, excepting in their own heads.
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To me, learning how to make change for a $20 or how to value a loan portfolio is infinitely more useful than knowing proper Zulu etiquette.
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To me, learning how to make change for a $20 or how to value a loan portfolio is infinitely more useful than knowing proper Zulu etiquette.
Zulu Etiquette: It's impolite to tell Mooch-Shall she has a big ass.