Spring 2019 course superlatives
Are you a senior looking to make the most of your last semester ever? A freshman who gained zero clarity from first semester and (still) has no idea where to start when it comes to picking classes? Perhaps you're a sophomore and you're just searching for a way to get out of your sad, sorry slump. Honestly, no matter who you are (even if you're a junior!), it's worth checking out Blog's Spring 2019 Course Superlatives list below for some pre-registration inspiration (or even just some more reasons to marvel at the wonder of a liberal arts education).
Most likely to make you consider throwing out your juul: Tobacco, Disease and the Industry: cigs, e-cigs and more
Most likely to make you think reconsider your entire Brown career: What Do Schools Do?
Most likely to teach you how to successfully kill someone: The Simple Art of Murder
Most likely to punish plagiarism: College Ethics
Most likely to make you feel guilty for complaining about your exams: Knowledge and Power: China's Examination Hell
Least comprehensible course title: Problems Antarctic Dry Valley Geoscience
Most likely to be full of masochists: An Introduction to Pain and Suffering
Most fun: Choose Your Own Adventure
(Side note: This course's description begins with "This game is lit. I mean this Lit is a game.")
Most likely to inspire you to smoke weed: High Culture: Intoxicants in 19th-Century Literature and Society
Most potentially disappointing: Anthropology of Food
(The description does not indicate that any eating for a grade will occur.)
Most seemingly redundant title that's not actually redundant: Thinking Historically: A History of History Writing
Most likely to improve your mood: Psychology and Philosophy of Happiness
Most likely to involve swords: Movement: Stage Combat, Clowning, and Other Physical Form
(Runner up: Pirates, The Search for King Arthur)
Most ominous title: The Beginning of the End? Neolithic "Revolutions" and the Shaping of the Modern World
Most likely to teach you an actual skill: How to do things with Maps
Most meta: Visualizing Vision
Most tongue-in-cheek title: The Awful German Language
Most likely to make you feel either guilty or validated about spacing out*: The Nature of Attention
Most "P"s in one course title: Topics in Phonetics and Phonology: Psycholinguistics of Phonetic Perception
Most likely to make you doubt yourself: Is That A Fact? On the Function of Interpretation at the Present Time
Most magical: The Enchanted World: Magic, Angels, and Demons in Early Modern Europe
(Runners up: Ancient Egyptian Religion and Magic, Jewish Magic)
Most comprehensive: Internet of Everything
Most likely to make you feel inhuman: How We Became Machines
Most hands-on: To Gather, To Sever, To Mix, To Turn
Just the best title, honestly: How Poems See
Pre-registration will occur on November 6th for seniors, November 7th for juniors, November 8th for sophomores, and November 9th for first-years, always at 8:00 a.m.—so make sure to set your alarm if you want to get into any of the aforementioned classes! Happy pre-registration!
*You'll have to take the class to find out!
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