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Columbia already has too many damn acronyms, nicknames, and portmanteaus, but people just love coming up with more. This time, we’ve compiled a little list of classes out there that have been commonly referred to not by their actual course names, but by some other metonym. We like these, and it would do humanity a great favor to keep this list going, so let us know some unusual names you’ve called your classes in the comments!
- Apocalypse! (Millennium: Apocalypse and Utopia)
- CoFi (Corporate Finance)
- Foner (The United States In the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction)
- FroSci (Frontiers of Science)
- Glurb (Global Urbanism)
- Hot Madam (History of the Modern Middle East)
- ‘Metrics (Econometrics)
- Xavier (Intermediate Macroeconomics)
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@iyengar yoga: bdsm 101
@latin american civilization LatCiv
@Anonymous Mechanics of Solids with Xi Chen.
Chen at Ten!
@Anonymous Whatever they both sound like ass rape
@literary criticism Lit Crit. I love this one because if you say it too fast you end up saying something else.
@Anonymous Introduction to Translation Studies = Tranny
@foner why white people suck 101
@Anonymous Lit Hum
@Anonymous FroSci is just an embarrassing metronym, that sounds more like a dessert than anything else, concocted by the now sophomore class. It’ll always be Frontiers.
@frozen science? Yeah, it sounds just like FroYo (the dessert or Android 2.2). I’d rather call it Frontiers, but everyone I’ve spoken to seems to call it FroSci. Go figure.
@Anonymous Fuck you old people. Go find a job.
@Physucks and Statisucks
@Anonymous RoPo = Romantic Poetry
MoPo = Modern Poetry
VicPo = Victorian Poetry (but this one isn’t as good.)
@Anonymous History of Sexuality in the United States = Sex Class
@Anonymous L&R will never die!
@for anthro Interpretation of Cultures = Intercult
Intro to Social and Cultural Theory = Soccult
Precolumbian Histories of Native America = PCHONA (Puh Chona or Precolumbian for boring people)
@Ooo approve! Also, UWrite. Really, that’s all you do in that friggin’ course, (yo)UWrite.
@if it still exists Radical Democracy Since the French Revolution=Rad Dem
@Anonymous Udub= University writing
@Anonymous Performative Cultures of the Third Reich = Nazis/Nazi Theater
@sociology of sexuality SoOSex
@sheila&bruce “susan” (intermediate microeconomics)
@math AnOp! (Analysis & Optimization)
@Anonymous I call it Anal
@Anonymous too easy to confuse that with Intro to Modern Analysis.
@Anonymous that’s modern anal
@Since when is Frontiers of Science FroSci? In my day, we called it Frontiers.
@CC '11 Corporate Finance = Corpfin (not CoFi?)
@#correction Bwog, shouldn’t the title be “Classes By Any Other Name”?
@POE! Principles of Economics – POE (like Edgar Allen)
@Anonymous I always said, “Gulati” or “Principles.” I think Principles was much more common.
@Anonymous what is all the ruckus outside on 113th?
fratting?
@Anonymous Weapons, Strategy, and War = War Party
@brostoevsky dick ants – joyce
@Anonymous Mowsh- Biology c2005, c2006
also, back in my day Frontiers of Science was just called Frontiers….
Phys v1200- Pre-med physics
@EBHS! Apes, Apes, Apes! (The Biology, Systematics, and Evolutionary History of the Apes)
@Anonymous SciRi (Science and Religion)
HoP (History of Philosophy I/II)
@Squirrel My love for Cristia Mercer is forever and undying.
@Anonymous Comparative Ethnic Studies = CESpool