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Posted on 3/29/19 at 7:26 pm to
Posted by cable
Member since Oct 2018
9735 posts
Posted on 3/29/19 at 7:26 pm to
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For the final we had to right an essay about what needs to change for women to truly be equal or some shite.


with spelling like this I'm surprised you did better than a D
Posted by northshorebamaman
Cochise County AZ
Member since Jul 2009
37469 posts
Posted on 3/29/19 at 7:34 pm to
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Bowling
I took this and also hiking.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
79000 posts
Posted on 3/29/19 at 8:06 pm to
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Could actually be a good class. South Park has some really intelligent satire on current events.



Agree. The course would sound better if it weren't titled South Park. Should call it something like "Contemporary Social Issues In Popular Culture" (and maybe include other cartoons like The Simpsons).
Posted by brass2mouth
NOLA
Member since Jul 2007
20416 posts
Posted on 3/29/19 at 8:25 pm to
Theories of International Politics and Zombies


World war Z, Shaun if the Dead, and of the Harry Potter movies were required viewing. I can’t rememeber which Harry Potter.

It was a cool class mostly about how pop culture has the ability to impact things in the world, but it was ruined by a student aid that was determined to make people understand the class wasn’t a “gimme class.”

She sucked.
Posted by Choctaw
Pumpin' Sunshine
Member since Jul 2007
77774 posts
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:50 pm to
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I took a class on the Grateful Dead.



Was it as overrated as the band?
Posted by S
RIP Wayde
Member since Jan 2007
168608 posts
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:55 pm to
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took an English 2000 class at LSU that was nothing but watching and analyzing horror films.


That’s legit.
Posted by Erebus
Member since Jan 2019
574 posts
Posted on 3/29/19 at 11:24 pm to
Took the Sex & Violence in film class and it was the best class I had at LSU. Professor was awesome.
Posted by cas4t
Member since Jan 2010
71991 posts
Posted on 3/29/19 at 11:29 pm to
Getting dressed lol

What the frick
Posted by forever lsu30
Member since Nov 2005
4035 posts
Posted on 3/29/19 at 11:35 pm to
My 2nd English class at LSU was amazing.

We studied Britney vs. Christina the 1st half of the semester then completely broke down & analyzed Fight Club the 2nd half.

It was legitimately the only course I took at LSU in which I did not miss a single class.
Posted by TnMountaineer
Minglewood
Member since Aug 2018
3490 posts
Posted on 3/29/19 at 11:36 pm to
I took the following as electives

History of baseball

History of rock n roll

Films of the 1970s

Golf
Posted by TnMountaineer
Minglewood
Member since Aug 2018
3490 posts
Posted on 3/29/19 at 11:38 pm to
I took the same class! Our last film was Last House on the Left. Helluva film to end with. Yikes.
Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
44063 posts
Posted on 3/30/19 at 12:02 am to
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I took a “Weightlifting” class for extra credit hours


I took Weightlifting, Tennis, Basketball & Rifle Shooting as electives at LSU.

Posted by LSUGrad9295
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2007
36904 posts
Posted on 3/30/19 at 2:46 am to
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ODS S117 Introduction to Ice Climbing


Naw man, I'm good.

If I'm ever in a pickle and the skill of ice climbing is required for me to get out of the pickle, go ahead and call the undertaker.

quote:

ODS S217 Ice Climbing Level II


That's a "naw dog" also...
Posted by ElderTiger
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2010
7662 posts
Posted on 3/30/19 at 5:05 am to
I guess PE isn’t required anymore but back when I was in college, you had to take 4 semesters of it. Mine, as I recall, were basketball, weightlifting, golf and swimming. I think they were only one hour courses so they didn’t do a lot for your GPA.
Posted by GG84
Atlanta
Member since Oct 2018
55 posts
Posted on 3/30/19 at 6:11 am to
Ballroom dance from Dale Brown’s wife! Actually, an excellent class. She was legit. Also aerobics 101. Got credit for exercising two hours a week.
Posted by Picayuner
Member since Dec 2016
3792 posts
Posted on 3/30/19 at 6:21 am to
In the 70’s at LSU, I took a class called “Football 101”. The teacher was wrestling coach Larry Schacatano” and consisted of knowing the rules , dimensions, nuances of football. On lab day we would punt, pass, and , kick. The funny thing is we had an all SEC lineman in the class that couldn’t do any of the three. Final exam was a flag football game. 1 credit
Posted by Sidicous
NELA
Member since Aug 2015
19296 posts
Posted on 3/30/19 at 7:12 am to
In the 80's at LaTech my GF and I and one of our mutual female friends took an elective Geology Elective on Oceans and Marine Biology.

Took a field trip to the then newly constructed La. Marine Consortium in Cocodrie, went out on the trawler catching fish and picnic on a beach. Most of the class was slideshow of the professors work in Antarctica and the Pacific. I remember the shark slides from his dives gathering samples from the A-bomb tests on atolls in the 50's. He could only be exposed (dive or walk the islands) for short periods of time as the places were still highly radioactive.

We also learned the movement of molecules in an ocean wave.
Posted by tidalmouse
Whatsamotta U.
Member since Jan 2009
30706 posts
Posted on 3/30/19 at 7:19 am to
I took a class at the U of AL titled "Drug and Alcohol Use in America".

I did a lot of experiments for that class.
Posted by WaydownSouth
Stratton Oakmont
Member since Nov 2018
10430 posts
Posted on 3/30/19 at 7:44 am to
Not as egregious as some of the others, but I enjoyed my walking class

Our final was we had to walk 3 miles in under 45 minutes. Clocked in at just over 42 while hungover
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
11425 posts
Posted on 3/30/19 at 9:00 am to
Nicholls has or was thinking about having a course about Anthony Bourdain.

CNN

I guess we have run out of of classical writers to have courses on like Poe, Shakespeare, and others.



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