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[belgurdo]

Ever since I switched schools a couple of years ago on account of not having enough cash to cover the high tuition, I realize that community college has a hell of classes offered that are just total fucking bombs. Professors and students don't come to class prepared, lessons are scattershot, and tests are a total clusterfuck because of the extreme lack of information given to you. Right now I'm taking this African-American studies class that I'm completely despising, largely because the $150 dollars I spent on the books is going to waste because the professor teaches from photocopied articles from research journals (actually, we "teach" ourselves because she just sits there half the class staring at us until someone says something vaguely on topic, and none of the lessons are actually on the syllabus...wtf.)

I also had a course dealing with studying and creating Children's Literature, only we didn't do either because the professor was apparently going senile or something and would just go off on tangent stories about her family and about the Chronicles of Narnia. I basically paid $500 to pick my own grade :\

And the kicker to all of this is that these professors like to tie you up in complete bullshit (usually promises to get things on track) in order to make you sit there past the drop date so that you can't withdraw, get your cash back, and find something better. Apparently community college professors are swift in that lesson.

Anyone else have some classes that they could do absoultely nothing with, and how to find them out and avoid them?

 

[aoi tsuki]

Drawing II

Started out innocently enough, but halfway through the semester, our instructor was a no show for many classes. A group of us ended up hitting the bar on those nights. For our final class, i brought my Gamecube (which was just released at the time) and we played on the big screen. After class, the same group and a few others went to an Irish pub with our instructor who was a big lush and we all got plastered.

 

[WedgeX]

Ack.

This brings back bad memories of UNV 101.

It was a 1 credit class that they decided that my particular freshman class should test out so they could make it a requirement.

With no description beforehand.

It involved massive amounts of busy work, no instruction whatsoever ("taught" by a library assistant that had never taught before), and a final debate with no real rules, and made difficult because half of the people dropped the class and half of those who remained were not allowed to debate due to lack prior participation.

 

[TheKingsCrown]

:lol :lol

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

Well, I go to a fancy elite school so it's tough to find dud classes. My easiest class was a one credit class called "Biomedical engineering in the real world" where they bring in speakers from around the industry and we just listen to them talk

 

[whytemyke]

YES! Perfect place for a bitchfest from me. I've needed to get this off my chest for awhile now.

Crap course? Try PSC 555, grad level international law. It should be a really good class, but the professor is such an arrogant prick. What's worse is that he's really smart, as in he knows a lot of stuff. But he's sooo close-mindedly leftist in his views that it's just insane. He did like 5 years in the State department, so he thinks that it gives him license to lecture about the state of America. It's like, listen guy, I live here, too. I know it sucks. He always pulls the race card, too. "Well, of course America revolves around Race! Look! The letters in it make up I AM RACE." Wow... real academic, huh? The worst part? He puts in this video he got off of CSpan with international legal scholars discussing the Bush doctrine. A guy gets up there from the Hoover Institute, where Condi Rice is from. The guy doesn't even get into his opinion, but the tone is starting to sound like he might defend the Bush Doctrine from a historical context (which is pretty fuckin' fair... every other hegemony in the world acted out of preemptive attacks, so if you're arguing FOR it based on a historical stance, you can) and the professor JUMPS outta his chair, runs up and turns the video off, going "This mans an idiot! Obviously from the Hoover Institute." I just wanted to be like, "Hey, guy, at least people think those at the Hoover Institute know what they're talking about. You're from fucking Central Michigan University and nobody buys your books. Shut the fuck up and let him say his piece."

bahhhh!!!!! I can't stand it. his lectures are unprepared, scattered, and quite honestly SUCK. He'll bounce from topic to topic like its his job, then come back and test on what he talked about, not what was on the syllabus. At least I've had him before so that I know only to pay attention to what he talks about in class, cuz he don't give a fuck about anything other than his opinion. If I could have gotten around taking his class, I would have, but I need it to graduate.

 

[Bluecondor]

Professor Jones at the University of Pittsburgh teaches "Men and Women at Work", which is an upper level management elective in the College of Business Administration. While the class is lively, you sit in there with a bunch of finance and accounting dudes who couldn't make it in those tough majors, as they endure endless discussions of the biological, structrual and identity perspectives of diversity. You'll have conversations about the "social construction of gender roles in organizations", and some ex-finance major will be sitting there with his eyes rolling back into his head.....looking at Jones like he is speaking in tongues.....

Pitt used to have a rwal decent elective course in poli sci - "Presidential Rhetoric" - but - the awesome professor who taught it died four or five years ago....

 

[whytemyke]

Pitt used to have a rwal decent elective course in poli sci - "Presidential Rhetoric" - but - the awesome professor who taught it died four or five years ago....

that actually sounds awesome. plus, he got to die before the shit really hit the fan. imagine how much he'd have to teach from these last 4 or 5 years.

 

[enjoy bell woods]

Tonka Truck Philosophy.

 

[retardboy]

Ack.

This brings back bad memories of UNV 101.

It was a 1 credit class that they decided that my particular freshman class should test out so they could make it a requirement.

With no description beforehand.

It involved massive amounts of busy work, no instruction whatsoever ("taught" by a library assistant that had never taught before), and a final debate with no real rules, and made difficult because half of the people dropped the class and half of those who remained were not allowed to debate due to lack prior participation.

HAHA WTF?! You had this crap too? It's called the same thing at my college too! Where did you go? I thought it was only for my school.

 

[woodchuck]

Well, I go to a fancy elite school so it's tough to find dud classes. My easiest class was a one credit class called "Biomedical engineering in the real world" where they bring in speakers from around the industry and we just listen to them talk

Haha. I'm taking that class right now except not at a fancy elite university.

 

[WedgeX]

HAHA WTF?! You had this crap too? It's called the same thing at my college too! Where did you go? I thought it was only for my school.

I'm going to Madonna University. Such a terrible class.

Sad to hear that it's spreading!

 

[hooded pitohui]

I'm taking a real shit course right now centered around Young Adult Literature. It's the only elective that isn't full this quarter, and I need it to graduate on time. The professor used to be a high school teacher, so she treats us all like high school kids. I think the class is meant for education majors, so there's a lot of emphasis on how to teach the material to young kids... I can tolerate this sometimes, but sometimes she'll break us off into groups and make us do some role-playing shit. One time we had to make posters.

 

[AniHawk]

Most of my GEs I've found worthless. Chemistry was the interesting one. I got a B in it (though pretty much failing the final), but I really did learn some stuff.

Everything else was stuff I already knew from High School, or will never use in the real world (well, unless I get in a philosophy debate, or need to explain someone what a disjunct or conjunct melody is (not that I got THAT right in the paper, though I did receive an A on it).

Currently, Biology is the crappiest class I'm taking. It's a subject I've never liked, and I have no fucking clue what I'm doing.

 

[BorkBork]

Statistics- Analysis of Experimental Data:

The first day, a woman with crazy hair and glasses (think a fat Trelawny from Harry Potter) walks in 10 minutes late, no intro and starts writing something completely irrelevant stuff on the board. And that was a good day. Every lecture she was at least 10 minutes late (twice she didn't show up), she knows absolutely nothing when someone asks her anything, wrote basically out of the textbook, notes were unavailable in any form, and tests weren't made until the day before so she didn't answer any questions about the format. I had to sit through it because it was a required class, but I didn't learn a single thing.