Most boring class you ever took in college

Originally Posted by ComboOrgan

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Save that for trade school.

This idea that academic engineers are out-of-touch is silly. I'd much rather have a curriculum designed by active academic researchers, than by industry folk with their narrow-foci.

Depends which branch of engineering.

All of my lecturers were career academics - straight from uni, phd and then back into uni. No time spent on site. Sure, they were great in theory but just plain sucked when it came to practical aspects. I took some time off work and completed a PhD part time, so I got a fair glimpse into the inner workings of the faculty. Needless to say I wasn't impressed by the blanket that academia tends to wrap itself up in.

Only now are they starting to pick up their standards - hiring practising mining engineers, mine managers and consultants who are able to give a more balanced view of the industry. The best lectures we ever had were by those who were invited to the university from industry.

Originally Posted by celery

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ELBOW PATCHES MOTHERFUCKER!

Hahah sorry, my typo!

Religions of Asia. Ugh.

Originally Posted by runner-guy

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+1 for Organic Chemistry. That class sucked.

Yep. Having to plow through that as a Philo major sucked balls.

Intro to Ethnic Studies was also pretty torturous. My prof taught as a 16 week primer about why it is always the white persons fault.

Originally Posted by ConcernedParent

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Yep. Having to plow through that as a Philo major sucked balls. Intro to Ethnic Studies was also pretty torturous. My prof taught as a 16 week primer about why it is always the white persons fault.
I think I'm the only person on the planet who actually enjoyed Orgo. Also, I enjoyed the hell out of African American lit and history. I was the white guy in the class, but still, it was awesome. The late-slavery to early Reconstruction era is an especially interesting time period, to which pretty much nobody pays attention anymore.

Chemical Structure and Spectroscopy

i wish i had done more broadening classes and less specific applied chemistry

Accounting for sure

I hope I won't be able to add to this thread any time soon. Yikes.

Business Forecasting. I had a career academic who couldn't speak a lick of English without a heavy Chinese accent. None of the times series theory was proven correctly, and even then no one needs to do time series modeling by hand anymore. The only thing I got out of it was that *gasp* it's harder to properly forecast into the future the further away you get from the present.

Quantitative Analysis of Political Data - In theory, a class that attempts to quantify qualitative political data/statistics, come up with models, etc. The reality, though, was a way for social scientists to justify themselves and their research/study to the actual scientists, i.e. mathematicians, statisticians, chemists, physicists, etc. In other words, it was an attempt to make political science seem more like a "real" science, rather than a major that people chose because the hard sciences, were, well, too hard.

Database anaylysis and structure - ridicuously boring both in undergrad and grad levels

19th Century Sculpture ... taught by Professor H. W. Janson

Taking it now - 'elementary mathematical modeling' - essentially, math for liberal arts majors.

Combines with some Stats class to give you the full six hours required by the state, all based on learning how to use a TI-84 to do math that none of us will ever need to do in the real world.

The state would be better off scrapping the math requirement (since actual calculus would be even more useless to most students) and requiring six hours of some kind of micro-econ curriculum about credit cards, loans and **** like that.

American Lit. The prof was crazy.

Originally Posted by Kyoung05

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Quantitative Analysis of Political Data - In theory, a class that attempts to quantify qualitative political data/statistics, come up with models, etc. The reality, though, was a way for social scientists to justify themselves and their research/study to the actual scientists, i.e. mathematicians, statisticians, chemists, physicists, etc. In other words, it was an attempt to make political science seem more like a "real" science, rather than a major that people chose because the hard sciences, were, well, too hard.
I shopped a similar class called "Introduction to Modern Political Economy," which was a serious snoozefest. Our first lecture was a 90-minute, monotone drone about farm subsidies in Kenya. Thank God for the shopping period; I was able to drop that ****** before it stuck to my schedule.

Freshman English, it was a requirement of all students at my university. Teacher was an obnoxious Engilsh PhD coont. Fortunately though I found a loophole where if you had already completed a senior writing course you count submit a "writing portfolio" and be exempt from the requirement. So I just took a senior technical writing class (engineering) and submitted the papers I had written for that class.