OT: Recommended Freshman classes
My daughter is going to UM orientation next week! She'll have to take Calc 1 and some Freshman English seminar (this is new to me). Maybe intro Chem or third term Spanish depending on her placement tests?
Anyway I was wondering if the easy, interesting, freshman electives/fourth classes were still the same? Cultural Anthro with Conrad Kottak was a great one back in the day. Some of my friends took PSych (111?) AStronomy 101 was another good one back then.
Anyone have any good recommendations for classes/profs for a first year student who really doesn't know what she wants to be just yet?
Some of the Freshman writing seminars 124 or 125? seem way out there but I'm not going to judge. Any good/interesting sections to recommend?
I have bad dreams of an orientation counselor talking her into String Theory taught by an unintelligible foreign TA. Maybe some flashbacks to some trying Engin School days.
Thanks in advance for any input.
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If she does end up taking psych 111, make sure to warn her about guys with bikes.
Intro oceanography. Very cool elective for someone with a bit of interest in science, though it is not at all competitive, like most of the pre-med courses.
I took a Conrad Kottak class - possibly Cultural Anthropolgy but I'm so old, I can't remember. I do remember enjoying the class.
things like:
cave painting
better use of spears and skins
raising dinosaurs for fun and profit
stone tablets - where to get them, how to store them, can they be used as shields
Well if she's LSA, they should all be pretty easy!
when my engineering friends would make comments like this and then I would point out how consistently I beat them in physics and math. They would then cry foul because their other classes were so much harder than my 400 level chemistry classes.
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I used to teach 125 sections at UM and still know people who are doing so. Note that the 124s are generally taught by English PhD-candidates while the 125s are taught MFAs and faculty writers (published fiction writers or poets). While the courses are all designed to teach academic writing skills and--ideally--critical thinking, there is a wide latitude in the subject matter which can be addressed by an instructor and most teach to their fields of study within the English department, or their own passions and interests. Given this, she should read the course descriptions carefully. Make sure the texts and subjects addressed appeal to her or it will be a long, miserable semester. Potentially, a well-taught 124/125 can provide a great college intro in helping to provide the critical thinking skills she'll need at that level and beyond, so study those options.
i always thought you were pretty cool. the nerve of people calling you names like that.
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Youre 40-50 on a M sports blog asking what classes your daughter should take fergodsaks.
Frosh classes are 90% already picked for you. Just hope shes learned to drink somewhat responsibly and isnt yearning to go boy crazy.
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when I was there (early 80s), but consider taking a physical anthropology class from Prof. Wolpoff. The class I took from him was one of the best I took there. He's animated and keeps the subject matter interesting. He's a well known and major proponent of multiregional model of human evolution.
The hardest part of the final (or mid-term) was naming the bones in the body. I think he gave credit for 'head bone' in lieu of 'skull'.
Same thing happened to me. It shook my confidence pretty bad too. So, make sure she knows what overloading her freshman year can do.
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