Which were/are your favourite/least favourite subjects in school or university?
In university my favourite subjects are:
General prehistory
General muzeology
Auxiliary historical sciences
German
I've always done very well at these subjects with good marks and always present at the lectures.
Least favourite:
History of philosophy
History of religion
I didn't have such good marks here and sometimes I skipped a few lectures because they were boring. :o
In undergrad I studied Kinesiolgy and Nutrition. My favorite subjects were anatomy and physiology, and biomechanics. I find the human body fascinating. My least favorite was a nutrition class that was 100% memorization. Boring and worthless.
I've completed one semester of business school, and I really liked Microeconomic theory, Corporate Strategy, and Business concepts and skills (basically applied stats). Managerial Accounting was fun too, basically a class on how to be shady. I hated, hated, hated organizational behavior. It seemed like all they did was put a bunch of fancy labels on concepts that should be common sense to anyone of moderate intelligence, and the teacher had very little business background, so he couldn't put the information in a useful context. He also got mad at me for correcting him about basic things which frankly I think he ought to have known considering I was paying over $100 dollars an hour to hear him talk.
My best class was Nutrition. I thought English History and History of Science were good. Literature and Anthropology classes were nice also.
My worst classes were Physics, and classes that involve speeches.
Favorites:
German
Russian
Least Favorite:
Zoology/Biology (by far)
Shame on you.Originally Posted by Siebenbürgerin
Hated:
Graduate level Symbolic Logic courses:
Graduate level Contemporary Philosophy courseseyes:
Loved:
Undergraduate 19th Century Philosophy (my awakening)
All "History of" courses
Philology
Abnormal Psychology
All science courses
Mathematics
Aesthetics
Political Science
"...The moral man is a lower species than the immoral, a weaker species; indeed - he is a type in regard to morality, but not a type in himself; a copy...the measure of his value lies outside him. ... I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage; I do not account the evil and painful character of existence a reproach to it, but hope rather that it will one day be more evil and painful than hitherto..." (Nietzsche)
Liked
Anthropology
American Government
American History
American Literature
Constitutional Law
Criminal Justice
Ethics
Logic
Mathematics
Sciences
Sociology
Disliked
Art
Music
Philosophy
Psychology
Teaching Diversity (I have not taken this, but am disappointed such a class actually exists)
Hmm, maybe I should also add favourite and least favourite in high school.
Favourite:
Universal history
English literature
German literature
Romanian literature
Latin
Least favourite:
Physics
Chemistry
Mathemathics
I was so glad I got rid of these hard sciences in University.
Oh, not to forget, History of the European Union, I always hated it because every class the teacher held the same old speech about how important it was for us to study that subject because this country should and probably would enter the EU soon and we can't be ignorants.
That's what my prof said too when he nearly flunked me at the exam. :pShame on you.
Liked:
History
Political Science/government
Economics
Business/Accounting
Hated:
Statistics
Gym
Music
Art
Foreign Languages (French is the one I took)
English/Literature (mostly). We had to read the lamest stuff.
Contact Congress on immigration
Contact Congress to reject banker bailout
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." --Ben Franklin
Favourite:
History
Hated :
Mathematics
Some of the best courses and most memorable I took in College were:
Philosophy
-Existentialism
-Husserl & Heidegger
Biology
-Cell & Molecular Biology
-Gross Anatomy (head & neck)
Sociology
-Family & Gender Roles
-Seminar on Post-modernity
Literature
-Introduction to Drama
-Introduction to Fiction
Psychology
-Experimental Psychology (due to my beloved proffessor & research supervisor)
-Physiological Psychology
-Learning (Pavlovian behaviorism)
Computer Science
Public Speaking
The least enjoyable to most annoying courses I took were
Mathematics
-General mathematics
-Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Psychology
-Tests & Measurement
-Developmental Psychology
-Psychology of Disability
-Human Factors and Design
-Social Psychology
-Motivation
-Industrial Psychology
.....etc, etc....
My major was.....Psychology.
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