Hmmm. I’ll let you know if I come up with something - but developmental psych sounds like a cool class. Are you taking any others?
I’ve decided that the subjects of some of my classes are cool, and while I like reading the book and learning, I don’t like going to class. One I haven’t had yet; it’s only on Monday and we started Tuesday of last week. It’s a grad-level class entitled ‘Women’s Health’ - which interests me; just hoping it truly will be a good class, because 2.5hrs is a long time to be there if the professor is dull. Others -
Advanced exercise phys - very interesting (of course!!!), and the professor is very intelligent but has trouble communicating his knowledge to us. You know, the whole TEACHING thing. Despite asking pointed questions… I never seem to get a straight answer. I’ll learn more from reading the book than time spent in class, but it’s still a cool class. I’m hoping that we have labs, and that I get to be a lab rat again.
Theories of Strength and Conditioning - interesting reading the book, hate every minute spent in class.
Methods of Teaching Physical Education/Activity - ugghhh this is required for my major and I feel it’s a waste of time. The professor has a really loud voice that I find overwhelming; ie, I can’t quite focus on what he’s saying, because he’s just too LOUD. I want to go to med school, I don’t really think I’ll use anything that I’ll learn here… and I’m not really sure yet what we’re going to learn anyway.
Critical Thinking: Trying a Legal Case - this counts for my Honors program and it sounded cool. I’m one of three girls in a class of 16, which is kinda neat. It culminates in a mock trial at a real federal courthouse, neat. Critical thinking is a difficult skill! I just finished reading one of the books ("Asking the Right Questions: A guide to thinking critically). This is good, it’s intellectually engaging for me.
World Food and Nutrition - fulfils a gen ed requirment, and I’d like it more if it were at a different time (it cuts into time I’d otherwise spend at the pool.) So far it seems to be more anthropology than anything else (ie, early man learning to control fire had a huge impact on civilization in general, particularly on what he could eat… you can cook things with fire!). Last semester, I took a grad class in Osteoporosis that the professor of WF+N was also a student in. There were only 15 of us in that class, and he doesn’t even remember me — I HATE being at such a large school; I kinda feel like if I just disappeared, no one would really notice…
I had also signed up for a Swimming Skills class (hey, it was listed on my requirements sheet). The swim coach, who also teaches this class, found me after I’d done my workout the other day and said “you don’t need to be in this, you already know how to swim. I’ll waive the requirement for you, though you’re welcome to help teach it if you’d like.”
That’s the 1-week anaylsis, anyway. I like learning, I just don’t like school 
