We have reached that point in the year when no one pays attention in lecture anymore, but this week, it’s for an understandable reason: it’s preregistration time. Everyone is perfecting their Banner carts during class, and thanks to the creativity (or lack thereof) of many professors, browsing the Fall 2014 course listings is infinitely more entertaining than lecture. We present another round of course superlatives:
Most doable:
ENGL0910: How to Read a Poem
Most difficult to convince your parents to spend tuition on:
ENGL1511: Scandalous Victorians
MUSC0607: Old-Time String Band
Most likely to dissuade you from concentrating in the department:
ENGN0130: The Engineer’s Burden: Why Changing the World is Difficult
Most identical twinning:
BIOL1050: Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell
BIOL2050: Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell
Most likely to lead to a first date:
ENGL0510: Coupling: The Literature of Courtship
Worst to take with your significant other:
COLT1440: Killer Love: Passion and Crime in Fiction and Film
Most all-encompassing:
ENGL0710: The Dead and the Living
Most pointless:
COLT0810: How Not to Be a Hero
Most unnecessary use of punctuation:
ARCH0220: Fake! History of the Inauthentic
MCM0800: Pirates!
Most roundabout way to get a robot to do your homework:
CSCI1410: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Sounds most like child’s play but is really 3000-level:
BIOL3640: Doctoring 1
Most meta:
PHIL2110: Metaphysics, Metametaphysics and Commonsense World Pictures
Most triple-threat:
PHYS2020: Mathematical Methods in Engineering and Physics I
Most poetic:
LITR2010: Deep Rivers, Lost Roads, Bent Symbols: Poets and Poetry Outside the Frame
Most helpful for deciding whether to throw up a like on Instagram:
ENGN1610: Image Understanding
Most lost-in-translation:
EAST1270: China Through the Lens: History, Cinema and Critical Discourse
Most hip slang:
HIAA1870: SoCal: Art in Los Angeles, 1945 to the Present
Most—ooh, shiny!
GEOL0160: Diamonds
Biggest missed opportunities for course titling:
COLT2821: Metaphor
ENGL2561: Satire and Irony
Most likely to make you thirsty for a fruity cocktail:
HIST0970: Tropical Delights: Imagining Brazil in History and Culture
Best title for a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book:
BIOL0190: Phage Hunters, Part I
Most likely to be protested:
EDUC1740: Academic Freedom on Trial: A Century of Campus Controversies
Most helpful for imagining Brown 250+:
HIST1976: Seeing/Reading/Making Brown
Happy preregistration!
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