Meme classes you had to take

>>8771076
>Norwegian
>English
>Technology in society ( Which is basicly history and the philosophy of technology evolving.)

>>8771076

I had to take two classes of English language.

Intrapersonal communications

the teacher basically just used it as his chance to spew bullshit with a captive audience. Ended up having to draw a picture about my feelings for credit among other BS

>>8771076
>that picture

Looks like paradise desu

>sociology
>Writing
Needed both for my uni's engineering program.

>>8771076
>>8771098
>>8771107
>>8771226
You all seem to be confusing university with high school.

>>8771297

Nope. Had to take two semesters of English in college. It was designed for us to learn technical terms in English. You had a choice between that and German though.

>>8771297
Nah senpai.

History of mathematics

Fortunately, universities here don't force you outside of your major.

english class with a dyke professor that didn't teach us anything just handed out assignments and worksheets. fuck, that bitch was horrible. she even sued the police for mistreating her when they removed her after she got belligerent at a club.

Lol you are all cucked

>>8771076
(((College algebra)))
I went to a top tier uni, started with calculus 1 and didn't need anything below that. Then I flunked out so I transfered to the local community college. I was told by retarded advisors that I needed to take college algebra for my associates. Only later I was told that linear algebra/diff. Equ could substitute that credit

>>8771076
I went to a good public university in Australia, we don't have to take shitty unrelated classes.

>>8771335
What is college algebra?

>software dev grad student
>required database class...seems ok
>textbook is quite outdated (2003), author doesn't seem to understand the statistics behind the theory and just comes up with definitions to things to seem important, only theory and not application
>professor is self aware (asks us why we have to take the class) but still spends all class time reading from powerpoint slides and book pdf on projector
>exams are all on stupid, book-specific terminology
>professor is actually clueless about the application of databases

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>>8771076
some stupid feelings course about how stupid meat robots can't do work because feelings.

>Philosophy of science
>Science communications

For CS in Australia.

>>8771363
Databases is actually relevant and potentially useful though. It sucks that your course was shit though

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>>8771375
>Philosophy of science
Why am I being triggered by those sequence of words?

>>8771297
t. brainlet that doesn't understand why different universities operate differently in different countries.

>>8771375
youre absolutely right about the importance of databases. i had a longer post but it got deleted so what i wrote was a condensed version

i left out that the class is about the theory that goes into making database languages...but it wasnt taught and the book wasnt written by someone who understood the math that birthed the theory, so it was pretty useless.

id already taken database courses in undergrad wherein i used MySQL and SQL Server and was using SQLite in another class during the semester I was taking that shitty graduate class. The course was useless, the material is crucial.

>>8771351
Algebra you should have learned in highschool.
Thank the American education system.

>>8771401
Probably because you're stupid.

>>8771375
Philosophy of science is needed and if you couldn't see it it's because of either your teacher being shit or you not paying attention.

>>8771076
English composition
English composition II: the persuasive writing edition
Introductory computer science classes (both at community college and at University, because the credits didn't transfer)

>>8771107
>take two classes
lel. In my meme university we have to take a predetermined english class EVERY SEMESTER. The Malaysian government is pretty serious about increasing the English proficiency in public universities. Most of the classes are useless as shit but the current one I'm taking is teaching us how to write resumes, handle english interviews etc. So it's not all that useless.

>>8771428
Oh, and I had to choose between interpersonal communication and public speaking.

>>8771419
*your

>>8771076
DHD
That translated is Development of Directive Abilities.
Is an stupid way of saying "you're going to see humanities in the first semester."

>>8771226
Yeah that's pretty much what DHD is.

>>8771375
Any shit that has "philosophy" in the fucking name it's going to be a fucking mess.
>>8771420
ha, fuck off

I suppose "Human Geography" (basically Liberal Geography) and a Sociology class on work, as a CS major

They actually weren't terribly annoying. A lot of interesting new facts and perspectives, with the occasional and unfortunate interjection of some "feminist X" take on the subject or a woe is me monologue on brown person oppression.

>>8771310
>History of mathematics
I kinda want to study that.

>Fascism
Its a fun discussion class desu and for one who leans right I can use examples of collectivism in Natsoc policies to jab at the modern liberal left. Theres a lot of Trumps a nadzee brainlets but it cant be helped.

>>8771576
this triggered a memory of this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ekK_HzLtI&t=209s

Ethics in the profesional field

Literally any humanities course is a meme course
I cannot believe I am actually paying for this garbage

>>8771076
Maybe don't go to uni in some soft dictatorship?

>>8771363
the fundamentals have not changed in a long time. the entire point of most database classes is to teach you the fundamentals.
my class was:
architecture / general / intro -> relational algebra -> SQL DML/DDL -> PL/SQL (we used Oracle) -> ER Diagrams -> normalization -> security

>required to take public speaking
>rewrite MDE skits

was pretty fun desu, the first speech i got on all fours in the corner and faced away from the class and just whispered "you're a fucking IDIOT nobody even LIKES you why THE FUCK ARE YOU HERE" a few times, then got back up and said that was just the pregame and wasnt part of the speech, then asked if they could reset the clock

got a B

ITT: autists who don't realize a semester of writing is far more useful in the workplace than another semester of analysis

>be in civil engineering
>forced to take circuits

I GOT INTO CIVIL TO ESCAPE CIRCUITS REEEEEE

>>8771076
Software engineering

cultural music history was actually pretty cool

>>8772208

the only 24/7 occupants of your buildings are circuits

>>8772186
>than another semester of analysis

no

brainlet get the fuck out

maybe some shit-ass physics/chemistry course, but not analysis

your BRAIN gains 3 IQ per analysis course.

>>8771076
1. physics because lecturer is retarded 80 years old man
2. integrals because teacher is retarded 80 years ol woman
3. linear algebra because teacher is retarded 25 years old woman who just doesn't care about her subject

>>8771226
What did you draw?

>>8771431
What they're referring to is "college writing," which is usually a two-semester long course in composition all undergrads in USA have to take. The purpose isn't to teach English as a second language, but to familiarize everyone with the writing standards they need to know for their other classes. It assumes fluency.

Computer science 1. The guy assumed all of us were cs majors and forced us to learn the Linux command line in addition to the regular text book.

My major only requires cs 1, and I don't intend to to do software dev, so I'll literally never use it again. It was the driest, cheesiest shit ever.

>>8772294

I drew a mango because I like to eat mangoes and then moved on

>>8771076
"How to use Google" Class

3d design

It wasn't what you think, it was about making things out of clay.

>>8771620
Cool video

>>8771098
Idunno anon, the last one seems pretty cool IMO.

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>>8772227
Citation needed muhfucka.

>>8771076
>Intro to Communication Studies
Teacher treated us all like we were 12
>Islamic History 1260+
1260 was considered the beginning of the modern era is Islamic history, keku
>Intro to Lit
>Sociology: Global Problems
Eventually became "ayy lmao non-whites"
>College Writing
Wrote nearly 3x as much as any Writing Intensive course but didn't get a WI marker
>Intro to Religious Studies

>>8771646
I don't usually have a problem with humanities courses as a subject, but yeah a lot are trash

Comminity college attending brain-nugget here.
I had no idea what I was doing, so I took a couple history courses. I enjoyed American History a lot, so I decided to take Medeival history also.
>Buy $100 textbook.
>Teacher never uses it.
>Use no outside sources.
>Write no papers.
>Just write down everything the teacher says, then re-write it after class. 2-3 pages of notes per lecture.
>Get 98% in the class only because I couldn't remember where Chichen Itza was.
Is this what high school is like for people?

11th grade english

Teacher was really big into MLA format and how every academic paper in college would require it

but not im in college and every important formal paper just comes with a latex template and you don't even have to worry about it

>>8772651
I bet it could be. But the professor is an unenthusiastic hippie that reads from a PP.

>>8771401

Because it lets faggot Starbucks drinkers moan on and on with commentary while men utilize tools and brains to make goals happen.

>>8771076
>comp sci
this shit is hilarious. especially since I'm a comp sci major

>>8771432
If you chose public speaking how bad is it gotta take that.

>>8771076
>Mosquito Relations
>Ant and Fly Civilisations
>Honeybee/Ladybug Statehood

>>8771401
The philosophy of science describes and confirms the logic of the scientific method, you fucking normie.

>>8773495
I chose interpersonal because it's what I'm worse at. It was frustrating.

Environmental ethics

This solidified my view that philosophers should stay as far away from science as possible. They have no idea what they are talking about with science.

>>8774011
Not really. Philosophy doesn't confirm anything.

My second semester lit class was "zombie themed" and was taught by a toad-planetoid hybrid woman that made us write papers about strong women in zombie fiction. I fucking hated her and that class.

Appalachian culture and history
>Since I'm from Appalachia I had to take it at my colej

>>8772666
this is correct

>>8771351
literally just algebra with emphasis on the parabola

my english classes. it seems all english professors (in the US) are these sjw feminist cunts.

>>8771337
which one? uq here, they are forcing liberal propaganda upon a captive audience in the form of "ethics" lectures

>oh so you wanna work in military research when you get out because you've always thought it's interesting? well that makes you an unethical person! checkmate, bigot!

>>8774595
That actually sounds pretty interesting desu.

>>8775095
I never understood why.

>>8771076
>Introduction to religious studies
>Cultural heritage
>History of philosophy in Latvia
>Semiotics

>>8775297
because it's the lowest form of professorship, ergo the easiest to attain

I had to take Spanish Literature and was skeptical at first, but I am actually enjoying it

>>8775313
>>History of philosophy in Latvia
how many (people of color) people founded and lived in Latvia in the middle ages?

>>8771076
Public Raping

>>8775318
Aside from island colonies in Carribean and Africa, Middle Age Latvia had no contact with non-white people.

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>>8775330
> what are Finnish Mongols

>Doing paramed
>Have to take cultural studies
>Assume it's going to be about how to treat patients from different backgrounds
>It's a white/male privilege cuckfest
>Half the class gobbling the lecturers girlcock
>Constantly have to study "papers" with no academic citations or relevance, essentially opinion pieces
>Get marks destroyed if you don't write about how much of a privileged bigot you are

I want to fucking die.

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>>8775313
>History of philosophy in Latvia
MFW

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>>8771076
Neuro-Linguistic Programming

>>8771467
Don't bother with a PhD then. Oh wait, that's not for retards.

>>8774011
>confirms the logic

You don't know what the hell you're talking about, do you?

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>ITT: Autistic undergrads who can't understand why being able to write coherently about a topic might help their careers.

Sports in Society. It's a sociology class.
I'll give a rundown of the course
>nonwhites dominating sports pre civil rights reeeeeee
>Negro League best league
>soccer was actually invented in Japan
>while certain physiological differences exist between races, and since race is a social construct, those differences don't really exist

Guy had a Freudian slip about being a cuckold though. Was amusing.

Some of the various non-major courses I took...


>Humanities course requirement. Choice: Classical Mythology
This one was actually quite interesting. Focused mostly on homer ofc, it was an intro course for the classics major.

>Writing requirement: Intermed writing 2
Good thing I tested out of also having to take writing 1. Good technical writing skills are important for a scientist, but they just made me write memoirs and stories, total waste of time for my case. There should have been a specialized scientific writing course

>Soft sciences requirement: Controversies in human biology
Thank god this course was in the anthroplogy department. It was mostly about a bunch of germans and brits in the early 1800s arguing about whether early hominids walked on two legs and had big skulls and why jews get tay sachs disease and africans get sickle cell. I was worried it would be a political course about trannies (although it was like 2011 and that kind of arguement wasn't that popular in those days). That being said, it was a little boring, bio/anthropology has never been my thing, and the tests had way too much multiple choice "how many million years ago did x hominid evolve, 3 milion, 4 million, or 5 million" pure memory questions. I only got a C+ lel.

>>8777012

cont


>Cultural studies: Formation of the Hudaic heritage and faith
Course focused on the period 1000 BC - 200 AD and was basically a roulette of "who's conquering us now". Babylon, rome, etc. Was mostly historical and more interesting than I expected, although I knew most of it already, oy

>Arts requirement: Music theory 1
We didn't actually play anything, but we learned how musical scales and things are constructed, which is extremely tedious. It was funny seeing some of these artsy people counting on their fingers when they were figuring out intervals between notes.

>American studies requirement: American society
Was in the sociology department. Lecturer was a grad student who didn't give a fuck and gave everyone an A for showing up. Had some discussions about hip hop and sneakers in the 70s. Course was extremely dull but not very SJW thankfully, but again it was 2010 or 2011 and they hadn't risen to power quite as much yet.

>Cultural studies again (you needed two...): Heroes and warriors
No idea why this counted for cultural studies and classical mythology didn't. This course was basically medievil mythology. Roland, el cid, beowulf, etc. I liked it

>>8777016

Fuck. that's formation of the Judaic heritage.

>>8771076
The stupidity in having to take classes not related to your program is beyond me.

>>8777012
>>8777016
good comment

I had a law class while doing computer related university.

Ok, there is piracy laws, hacker and etc.. you would need to learn about, but nothing was said about those subject, she said she would touch those topics at the end of semester and nothing was done, and near the end of the semester she said she would give us a paper with information about those subjects and I never saw this paper

>economics

Speaking of meme classes... I once had a list of class titles and how to know it's bullshit class.. if anyone can add or has the list that would help, but some were:

Contemporary ____
____ of ____
____ studies

>>8772208
Thanks for giving me nightmarish flashbacks.

Circuits was the worst thing that ever happened to me, it's a nasty combination: very hard + very boring.

Ethics in engineering

>>8771335
>uses retarded (((/pol/))) parentheses
>flunked out of calc 1
checks out

>>8778199
>getting triggered by """((((pol/)))"""
>pol/
faggot detected

>>8777692
>____ of ____
really now?

>>8771977
Underrated post


fuckin lol'd

>ethics for engineers

>>8771076

Adakah itu Milo faggot??

>>8771076
Last quarter I took a class to fill a General Ed requirement.
>Ethnicity, Identity and Cultural Diaspora
I went in expecting a class that would cover the movement of cultural groups over time. What I got was some professor talking about herself and the requirement to do a long video project over the course of the quarter. It would have required more effort to do well in that class than I'd have cared to/ been able to commit to. Needless to say I dropped the class.

Most retarded class I took to completion was a 1 unit class on "Jogging". I was one of the fastest people in the class and one of like 6 people that actually jogged. I got a D+ somehow.

>>8778892
clearly Google translate.

>>8771076
Fucking technical writing. It's online with group work and he has only graded one paper so far. I'm literally learning nothing in this course. I've also already been accepted to grad school and this is the only class I need to graduate. I would say fuck it, but failing to complete a project makes you auto fail.

>>8779086

mana ada la cibai, ni cakap melayu betul

kau cina babi

>>8771076
Probably theater or gender studies

Intro to Sociology and Intro to Ethics

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>>8777735
Stay jelly grease monkey. We all know who really runs the show.

In Norway literally everyone has to take a course of philosophy in order to get a bachelors.

Its so fucking stupid.

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>mfw all these STEMlords are upset over philosophy

>>8780286
> science can teach you how to do very difficult things
> humanities can only teach you the obvious

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>>8780316
As is typical. They can't comprehend anything that can't be distilled into simple systems. Were it not for their incessant autism, I may actually have sympathy for them.

>>8771620
good choice for the instrumental

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5vw4ajnWGA

>>8773495
Public Speaking wasn't bad. There was some good stuff in it but really it didn't need to be a whole semisters worth of class work, but this is coming from someone who was already pretty good at giving presentations before I took the class.

You autistic fucks don't understand that the first two years or so of your undergraduate degree is meant to be holistic; an extension of what you have learned in highschool. Only when you become a junior or senior will you have the (hopefully very solid) foundation to take the specialized courses in your chosen degree program. And of course, you can go further by getting a master's degree then a PhD after you graduate.

>>8780381
>>8780316
>going to university and PAYING to learn how to pontificate
your subject is worth no more than it costs to get a library card. of course people will complain about having to spend their valuable time and money on it

>>8771076
>real analysis i
>real analysis ii
>complex analysis
>linear algebra
>PDEs
>analysis on manifolds

Do all this and still only know π to 5 digits. Wtf is this math degree even for.

>>8779119
if you're at all worried, establish a good relationship with the teacher. then in case of any fuckups you can work something out.

>>8780286
it's not humanities if it's a degree in cultural marxism

>>8780381
>They can't comprehend anything that can't be distilled into simple systems

no it's more like
>wasting money to be told what to think
or (inclusive)
>needing to pay someone to tell you what to think

basically you can get a quality "humanities" education on your own for free if you're intelligent enough to make a practical choice for your major in university

>>8771467

A lot of philosophy classes are great. Formal and symbolic logic, set theory, pragmatics, semantics, inductive and deductive reasoning, modal logic, doxastic logic, linguistics, epistemology, and metaphysics.

People take shit like intro to aesthetics, and Philosophy of African politics and assume philosophy is just about jacking off.

>>8781892
It's pretty clear from this thread that the people complaining about these things do not have a "quality humanities education"

>>8781803
nice meme

>>8780316
yeah because it's useless as shit.

>>8771076
>women in music
I took it 6 years ago and I still complain about it

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>>8782278
>women in music
KEK. Can you explain more about that?

>>8782176
Right, which is why being forced to pay to take "Cultural Studies" is stupid.

>>8782197
Humanities produced the scientific method. Do you subscribe to the thought that science can answer everything? How do you prove that scientifically? Even choosing to take that viewpoint is a philosophy onto itself.

You're literally like a little baby complaining about "how I won't need calculus in my daily life, ergo it's useless".

>>8782364
obvious bait. 1/10 made me reply.

>>8782403
I'm sorry to tell you that it's not bait my friend.

I mean, other than the last paragraph, which is a fairly obvious ad hominem attack, but still a semi-useful analogy.

>>8771076
>neurocybernetics

the subject is fucking fantastic, the problem was the woman (with Ph.D that she must have literally bought) had a folder in which there were popular press relases on sicentific discoveries.
She would babble about it ceaslessly, as if convinced we wouldn't understand anything else anyway. She would utter phrases like "scientists discovered" on every lecture, not mentioning even their field.

>>8782326
It was for a humanities requirement. Most of the class was about early country singers from the 1930s, which was terrible and we had to listen to it in class, and the professor mostly complained about a bunch of first-world problems that early women in music had. I don't think I have ever felt so unmotivated to learn about a subject as I was for this class.

theory of computation
my professor is inept, sadly.

>>8772347
You'd be surprised how fucking clueless a lot of people are about google. People think I'm a polymath because everytime they have a specific question they ask it to me and I just google it.

>>8771076
EE

Psychology, Business, English, Engineering "Ethics",

Isn't there a meme course at a university now in the UK, so a literal meme class?

>Swedish
>Communication
>Data-analysis

>>8771076

Thank fuck the meme-tier classes at my school are only listed as choices, and are paired up with actually interesting shit.

Even better, the classes themselves are taken seriously by no one, including the professors. It's basically a free A.

>>8784813
read Sipser or Ullman, that shit is lovely.

>Software Engineering
>Technical Writing
>Physical Geography (Science Elective)

>>8771076
Compulsory:
>Economy
>Law
>Learning Methodology
Also there's an optional course for Arabian Sorcery (didn't try it.)
In CS

>the scientific theory of computer science

>>8771351
I took """college""" algebra in 10th grade

>>8785619
>Arabian Sorcery
could you post a syllabus?

>>8785670
If you don't mind a google translate-butchered version of what I could find..

Sociology
Anthropology

Two classes taught basically the same brainwashing. Didn't learn a fucking thing in either class, and had to take both because they fulfilled different requirements. For some reason, one was in the "global perspectives" and the other was in the "human relations" category. (Gotta have a class from each category to graduate!)

I wish I'd taken more history classes in college, because in every single one, I learned something interesting.

>>8785690
Forgot to mention, those were the only two classes I took that ever had mandatory attendance.
Because you didn't really need to show up to learn anything, you could just as well read the fucking $120 book and take the tests and pass just as well.

>>8785681
no problem, post it. Maybe explain the more mangled parts, if you care anough.

>>8772332
>Eating comic books
Was it autism??

>>8772208
>>8777732

if you can't into entry level circuits you shouldn't be able to be any kind of engineer

>calculus
bare in mind this is in the UK, where most that go here should have a strong foundation on limits, derivatives and integrals, and it was barely an extension to the syllabus of the further maths A-level, meaning we didnt really learn too much new stuff, and on top of that, we had to take a real analysis course in parallel which was the rigorous version of what we had done in calculus (albeit it was two semesters compared to one).

>>8780316
why argue? If what you're doing can't be applied, it's meaningless. And if you don't know what you're applying, you have no foundation for what you're talking about.

These are all parts of a fantastic machine. Yes, even philosophy

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astronomy 101
>entire class is like watching a popsci documentary on mtv

I'm studying Computer Science in Germany. Out of 180 credits, i'm required to freely choose 30 credits from any department i want. Other than that, everything is computer science related.
Actually, those 30 credits can be chosen from Computer Science as well, but it's not recommended and i didn't do it. I took 30 credits worth of economy and finances instead.

>>8787765
next time I'd suggest taing a course in English, so that you could finally understand what was topic in this thread

When I did my computer science undergrad, there was a mandatory Business 101 class, and a silly Law & Ethics class. Everything else was on-topic.

>>8786783 see >>8782364

statistics

why waste a semester when everythig is 50%, either it happens or it doesnt

>>8787714
I had to take it because they didn't have enough physics classes I didn't take my final semester. I felt bad for always showing up late, but it was the only way I could stay sane having to listen to people ask questions about how it could be that the earth goes around the sun.

>Calculus
>Intro to Biology
>Fundamentals of engineering

body hygiene