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You don`t have to be old like this guy to be running out of time to take awesome classes
Your schedules don’t have to be finalized until Friday and Bwog knows that you are still looking for that one golden class that will make your ridiculously high tuition worth it. Here are our humble suggestions; please leave your own in the comments.
American Studies: Andrew Delbanco, Foundations of American Literature
Anthropology: Severin Fowles, Origins of Human Society
Anthropology: Mick Taussig, Interpretations of Culture
Asian Humanities: Colloqium on Major Texts: East Asia, with any professor but especially with William de Bary.
Creative Writing: Margo Jefferson, Modern Arts Writer
Creative Writing: Amy Benson, The Lyric Essay
Creative Writing: Cris Beam, The Literary Reporter
Earth and Environmental Science: Roger Anderson, Planet Earth
Economics: Sunil Gulati, Global Economy
English: Erik Gray, Romantic Poetry
English: Margaret Vandenburg, Modernism
History: Barbara Fields, History of the South/Anything
History: Casey Blake, U.S. Intellectual History: 1865 to the Present
History: Seth Fein, American Empire Projected on Film
History: Charles K. Armstrong, The Vietnam War
History: Sam Moyn, History of Human Rights
Political Science: PrezBo, Freedom of Speech and Press
Note: Not all of these classes are being offered this semester but since they`re all legendary it`s still good for you to know.
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@philo anything with Neuhouser.
@This will probably be downvoted Nonetheless, I would like to advocate D-mowsh’s Intro Biology. You learn a lot, and she finds ways to make things interesting. The exams are, dare I say, fun to do – she makes you think. There’s only one problem – the plethora of post-bac premeds
@neanderthal awwwwwww professor fowles is da best
@How about Anything with Jill Shapiro, ever?
@Anonimal This might have been helpful before we chose our classes, BWOG….
@FOMO FOMO
@BC'13/Vandenburg's Biggest Fan VANDENBURGGGGGGG
If you’re a Barnard English major, try to get into her Post-Modernism seminar. It’s so so so good, but limited (unfortunately) to about 15 students (or fortunately because more one-on-one time with Vandy).
@Anonymous Race: The Tangled History of a Biological Concept, Jill Shapiro
@Anonymous Wael Hallaq, Central Questions in Islamic Law/ Asian Humanities
TAKE IT.
@Anonymous Is this an addition to a previous list? I don’t see Mark Lilla or Nicholas Dames. Why is that? Surely Mark Lilla merits being on two lists.
@Anonymous ew lilla.
@Earth and Environmental Sciences GEOCHEMISTRY FOR A HABITABLE PLANET, WITH TERRY PLANK
@Anonymous Oh dear lord if you value your ability to stay awake in class, avoid Major Debates at all costs.
@WARNING Romantic Poetry with Erik Gray does not involve “romantic” poetry being read to you and instead consists of poetry from the “Romantic” historical period. You will be left hollow, your manboner for Gray unfulfilled.
@'13 Thanks, Dr. Gray.
It was a great class anyway.
@great job posting this a week after classes started
@AMERICAN STUDIES REPRESENT ;)
@Anonymous You’ve only posted humanities classes. Many engineering and science classes are repetitive and mechanical, but there are a few gems!
@Anonymous This list only has classes from 9 departments.
My top recommendation?
Literature and Empire in Slavic Studies, with Cathy Popkin.
@anon I second Literature and Empire with Cathy Popkin! hashtag DA
@ta Major Debates in the Study of Africa, Mamdani
@real talk seth fein made me worship the unisphere. I cried during that lecture.
@really regretting it dont actually take global econ if youre not into econ or hard classes. show up for a lecture and feel all hip and included and carry on with your life.
@Anonymous global econ is one of the easier econ classes… unless maybe you’re not an econ major
@Twerkin Trina Is global econ even being offered this semester???