To take part in discussions on talkSFU, please apply for membership (SFU email id required).
Courses that changed your Life?
I've read about threads for gpa boosters, hot professors...but I've never encountered one that discusses courses we have taken in the past that significantly changed our views on life. So I thought it would be interesting to start one! I have been at SFU for 2 years and here is a short list of mine:
Engl 104 (dist.)
Bus 251
Pol 241 (dist.)
Econ 105
hmm...I think that's all. The others are not worth mentioning...Anyways, that's all I have so far in my 2 years at SFU. What's yours?
Engl 104 (dist.)
Bus 251
Pol 241 (dist.)
Econ 105
hmm...I think that's all. The others are not worth mentioning...Anyways, that's all I have so far in my 2 years at SFU. What's yours?
Comments
Psyc 300W has really shown me that my critique skills are really not at a level where university students should be, so it has impacted my life as well :confused:
Nothing other than that so far though. Then again, it's only my second term. >_>
@Moshi: How did BUS 251, ECON 105 and POL 241 change your life? I'm in POL 241 DE right now myself, and will be doing BUS 251 and ECON 105 in the fall.
@Desolate:
Bus 251 introduces me to financial accounting and shows me accounting is not just about bean-counting. For that matter, I think 254 is also helpful but I like my bus 251 prof more. I was impressed by the amount of learning we've done by the end of the semester...haha!
Econ 105 helps me to understand news economics. It also covers a lot of material and is definitely worth taking IMHO.
Pol 241 has a lot of reading but it's so worth it. It blew my mind and completely changed the way I see politics. I ranked it one of the best pol-ci course I've taken; but that's just me and I've taken 2. LOL!! So yea, I think everyone should take it if they can. It also has few assignments and few required online discussions...which is a plus to me, because I'm lazy and i can't be bothered to log on webct every other day.
Econ103-105 were pretty useful. didn't change my life that much , but it did help a lot
Basically you have to read a short article from a tutorial reader each week. The 20% for attendance/participation is done through the iClicker and is based on your scores on a five question quiz about the reading, participation on other iClicker questions he'll put up for fun, and actually staying the entire time. He makes sure of that by doing another participation thing right near the end. If you did the quiz and answer that, he assumes you've been in the class the entire time and didn't skip out right after the quiz.
And, just curious, who was your prof for ECON 105 and BUS 251? I want to get Eldar Sehic for 105, since my friend has him right now and raves about him constantly. But I'm not too sure who is a good prof for BUS 251.
Bus 251- Taught me accounting principles and skills that will come in handy some day.
Econ 105- showed me the world around us and how our economic decisions can impact it.
Crim 101-taking it this semester but really interesting and engaiging course. Barry Cartwright is a fairly good funny prof too so it help keeps things interesting. :)
All others aside, i hate calculus and physics.
phil 120 (moral philosophy)- it sorta.. tweaked how i think of things nowadays..
crim 355 (forensic sciences) - omg this class is like my guilty pleasure.. loved going down to the forensic labs and checking things out.. i would've loved to go into the morgue if we were allowed
crim 451 (adv forensic techniques) - so 355 was my guilty pleasure.. this class is orgasmic.. X) guest speakers for every class on topics like etymology, fire investigations, pathology, mass graves and genocide.. the mass graves/genocide was especially daunting.. but wow this class is mind blowing..
ECON 103
EXPL 310 (Jen Marchbank) - Awesome class. Analyzed different aspects in life through a gendered lens. Super interesting. And tons of movies, yay!
SA 150 (Ann Travers) - One of the best profs ever. Such a great class to take during my first semester. Really encouraged me to view things with an open mind. Super useful and I've definitely taken her advice throughout my years at SFU.
CRIM 230 (Tamara O'Doherty) - Another great prof, unfortunately sessional. Made me love criminal and she really helped mentor me and give insight to UBC law school.
I think this is truly one of the more influential classes for me, even thought it's only week 4. This class discusses various disorders that plague older people (diabetes, alzheimer, strokes, etc.) and it really expands into the fact that we take for granted our youth when we are healthy and think we are invincible.
The prof even mentioned that she remembered a case where a 29 year old man was diagnosed with alzheimers, which was shocking as everybody associates alzheimers disease with seniors.
It's really interesting to hear how everyone has different favourites, given we're not in the same faculties...
Do you feel that it's the individual professor (and his or her ability to teach) that actually makes the courses life-changing rather than what the course itself had taught you that was life-changing...?
I always find myself struggling with intellectual and emotional trauma when the prof is really bad even though the course is supposed to be interesting...