What was the most 'different' class you ever took in college....

[Maroon Eagle]

Classic Keehley.

He also cared about students.

He loved to talk and I loved his lectures. One time before class in Giles, I had a Persuasion exam the next class period in McComas.

I asked him if he could let me out a little early so I would have enough time to make it to the class & take that exam. He did and I thanked him for that.

 

[aTotal360]

When I changed my major to Sports Comm, it was the first class I took. Tommy Kelly was in it. Total **** head.

 

[615dawg]

I took a 1 hour Tennis class one summer session with one of the hottest female teachers in history. She was a Grad Student in Kinesiology who had played tennis at North Alabama (then D2). A total smoke show. No one ever missed a class.

 

[Big Sheep81]

Physiology and Reproduction in Dairy Cattle..... Dr Fuquy.

 

[Mr. Cook]

I had Jay for both Business Ethics and Philosophy of Law. Both classes were entertaining as hell, and learned a hell of a lot....largely because of Jay.

He was a solid guy and somewhat misunderstood by some students becuase he was a Buffalo, NY guy transplanted in BFE Mississippi. But he was hugely intelleigent

 

[MeridianDog]

I took Coaching Baseball, taught by some guy named Ron Polk. Was a great, very interesting class.

 

[natchezdawg]

Pig ever learn which end of the racket to hold?

**

 

[Mr. Cook]

More memorable are the professors than the classes...like the "skinny guy in the blue shirt" (Carskadon)

 

[tbaydog]

I also struggle with algebra, had to take it summer course at Jackson state. Funny, at registration they ask did I want the government pay the course, I looked at them funny. They said because you white. True story.

 

[dawgoneyall]

German
Physics was a breeze compared

 

[Nunya.sixpack]

I didn't.

ChE, I had **** classes of a (non-flick) public speaking and art history.

If I look back, mechanical drawing or whatever it was called was the last year it was all with pencil, no autocad

 

[Maroon Eagle]

He was from Buffalo? Huh. I did not know or had forgotten that.

I also liked Marszalek & he’s from Buffalo too— even went to Canisius.

 

[hdogg]

I'll vouch for this. This was my first experience in actual education majors complaining about the easiest A I ever got. Unreal.

 

[AleutianIslandawg]

As a general business major looking for classes, I took one of Mike Goree's classes.....then I took the rest (I think he thought 3 or 4). I ended up with a marketing degree because of that man.

One of his class, I went to class for the first few weeks then stopped. It got to the point where I was afraid to go to class because it had been so long and I couldn't remember where my seat was. I never went back and never dropped the class. Got an A.

That was the coolest dude ever. On the last day of class he'd put on his Santa outfit. I brought my cousin to class with me that day to see it. Mike looked at him when we walked in and said he didn't recognize him, I told him he wasn't in the class but i brought him in with me for the day, Mike welcomed him and let him sit in. Good times

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

Pimpin' ..... it ain't easy.

 

[SwampDawg]

Business Communication, taught by a guy for whom English was a second language. Couldn't understand a thing he said.

 

[BonzoGoesToCollege]

Not that “different” but Writing for Engineers with Embree was very difficult. He hated engineers.

I hated that class too. He wouldn't tell you how to do it until you'd already turned it your work. Like we were supposed to read his mind.

 

[gasdawg]

I would say Physical Geography under Dr. Charles Wax. A Sr year elective. It turned out to be my favorite class I ever took at State. It focused a lot on weather patterns and how physical geography and weather interacts. Dr. Wax was great. Probably my favorite professor as well.

 

[Cdeer]

Floral design under Dr. DelPrince pros was wife got flowers every week, con’s was when I just about cut my thumb off with a floral knife and went to the longest student health center to get stitches and nobody would quit laughing long enough for me to explain what happened and give me my stitches

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

I got 6 biology credits for taking Birding Watching 1 and 2. I thought I had everyone beat until seeing this.

 

[West Houston Dog]

I just called Frank(Dr Ingels) and read him this post!. He laughed and laughed and " I dont remember any of this" he chuckled....

 

[Digging dog]

Urban design - landscape architecture.
We had a case study in Biloxi. This was early 90s and pre coastal casinos. We had a preliminary idea to bring the road in and loop out over the gulf. Didn’t go back to the coast for a few yrs. Was awesome to see the road like we proposed.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

That's awesome! Tell him he had a positive impact on many students that were not standouts and he likely would have little reason to remember.

 

[MagnoliaHunter]

embree also hated everyone who took English at a junior college. The first day of class, he went around the room asking everyone where they took English, I noticed that he was marking every time that someone said a JC so when he got to me I lied and said at State. After he had asked everyone, he stated something to the effect that he didn't think anyone who took English at a JC got a good education so they would not be able to get an A in his class.

Also every week it was take a test on Tuesday about writing something such as a letter to your boss about why you missed a meeting because you were in a multi-car wreck involving a cow. Then Thursday, we would go over how to write the letter.

 

[Carlton31698]

I took that class around 96 or 97. It was really interesting. I ended up being an Elementary Teacher lol

Physical Science for Elementary Teachers. I took it for the sole reason of meeting girls. Largely struck out there but had one of the best instructors of my whole college career (wish I could remember his name), he did lots of interesting, simple experiments/demonstrations that really brought the concepts to life. It was in the broadcast meteorology building.

 

[D4L]

Ag Economics. I can't remember the professors name. A black man, and he always referenced buying 8 ounce Bud's and Kellogg's Frosted Flakes.

 

[vhdawg]

I hated that class too. He wouldn't tell you how to do it until you'd already turned it your work. Like we were supposed to read his mind.

I somehow made an A in that class, but I lit his *** up on the survey during the final on that very point.

 

[PirateDawg]

Physics II with Dr. Nickerson. He was a genius and had a small observatory at his house which he invited the class to with regularity. Visited him in his office one day and he was reviewing Physics textbooks before they were released. He had a nervous breakdown before the end of the semester so we finished the course with another instructor. He was one of the best professors I had at State.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

A similar question was fielded on T&L yesterday. Thought it would be an entertaining one to ask the board.

Mine was not terribly different but it was 'The history of sports in America'.

Lot of people took it thinking it would be just 'names and games' and a piece of cake. Turned out to be a pretty challenging upper level history course.

I took this course! Is this the one where the teacher explained how Sports was an opiate of the masses? Other "different" classes were Consumer Behavior with Santa Claus Goree, Interviewing with Flick and International Logistics.

 

[thekimmer]

It was taught by Marszaleck when I took it.....

I took this course! Is this the one where the teacher explained how Sports was an opiate of the masses? Other "different" classes were Consumer Behavior with Santa Claus Goree, Interviewing with Flick and International Logistics.

The guy who brought the Grant Library to MSU. I don't remember a comment about the opiate of the masses. The class centered around ancient origins of some sports and how sports influenced and/or were influenced by different eras and events in US history.

 

[MeridianDog]

Clyde Q was a real character. I worked for him one summer. He would give freshman girl hell in class and then you would see upperclass women all but lifting their skirts for him. We had a big snowstorm, maybe 1969 and the annual that year had a photo of ClydeQ riding to work on his John Deer Tractor. He lived out across from the Highway Patrol troop on 82. I can remember him teaching with a cigar in the hand he was not using to write on the overhear projector. He was very fond of Avagadro's Number questions on tests.

 

[MeridianDog]

The semester I took Speech under Hank, we had a demonstration speech (I did serial dilutions in Microbiology - Hank loved my drawings on the blackboard). One guy in our class demonstrated, what he called "Zips". Took a plastic cleaners bag, Tied it to a coathanger, set the bottom on fire and let it burn over a trashcan. As it melted, little molten drops of plastic bag would separate from the melting bag and drop into the trash can, burning as they fell. Each drop would make a noticable "ZIP" sound as it fell, burning into the can.

Hank said if there was any way he could do it, he would have awarded the guy an "A" in the course, just for that one speech. Honestly, I think he did give the guy, who was not a very good speaker, an A.

 

[OzarkaNSW]

General Psychology ! Super hungover ! Hell yeah

 

[Mjoelner]

I hated that class too. He wouldn't tell you how to do it until you'd already turned it your work. Like we were supposed to read his mind.

Yep. It was ALWAYS this: Scenario A: You took a phone call and recorded every detail for your boss. He would say "You should assume your boss already knew 90% of that so all you did was waste his time. C!" Scenario B: You recorded the highlights of the phone call that were over-emphasized by the caller for your boss. "Your boss has no idea what you are telling him. You should have taken more detailed information from the call. C!" 17 him!

I took English at JC and I was an engineer so I was on his list twice I guess.

 

[Mjoelner]

I worked with Dr. Ingels when I was a student worker on the Honda project at Raspet Flight Lab. I really liked Dr. Ingels though the first time I met him I thought he was an *** because he was always yelling. Then I found out that was because he was half deaf. He was one of the co-pilots on the Honda jet or would fly the chase plane. A lot of his time was spent at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland on radar stuff he couldn't talk about.

Another thing about him. He would take up the old Stearman biplane and do aerobatics until he'd make himself sick. He'd then fly straight and level until his stomach settled down then go at it again. That's how much he loved it.

 

[Maroon90]

Western Equitation under Dr. Leroy Boyd.

 

[DawgInThe256]

Honors in Oral Communication - We read Alice in Wonderland

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

That sounds like the course I took. The opiate of the masses comment was made because sports served as a "breakaway" from the stresses of everyday and was especially important during war times to give people a getaway from life to enjoy watching sports. Maybe the class I had was The Psychology of Sport. I don't remember, I've slept since then

 

[Mobile Bay]

My roommate had to take 7AM Logic under him. He constantly refered to my long haired, unshaven, pajama to class wearing roommate as a dreg of society.