I'd recommend Discrete Math, Economics, History of Science.
What class in college did you get the most out of?
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#42History of Science. Granted, it's not a math or CS course, but nothing has better informed the way I think about problems, technical and political. It might as well be called 'History of Problems'.
Absolutely! It's a shame that students never learn how "science" evolves.
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#43Italian, because I wanted to go live there. It was one of the best and most important things in my life, as I met my wife there. Learning a language and living "somewhere else" is a great experience - and I think the two should be combined. Learning a language feels pointless until you have real, live people in front of you, that you can communicate with only if you can speak their language.
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#44If I had one recommendation, it would be to keep practicing any math you learn while in college. If you're like me, you basically had math classes every semester from when you were 6 years old until the end of college, and you take for granted how much you will be able to forget in 5 years without practice. The classes I got the most out of aren't the ones I'd necessarily recommend. Whether I got a lot out of a class…
>As you can see I really have no idea how to promote music.
On the other hand, unlike many people who do, you know how to make music. Serious talent. How long have you been doing it?
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#45How much you get out of a class depends a lot upon the professor, I think.
I got the most out of my Software Engineering courses - Testing, Usability, Systems, etc.
They are usually team-based, are reasonably rigorous, and have generally good professors.
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#46Creative Non-fiction
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#47Data Structures and Algebra. Data Structures hold a nice start for algorithms and Algebra will teach you how math works, and ends with cryptography.
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#48Creative Non-fiction
After an entire semester of that class I still fail to grasp what exactly a non-fiction essay is. So far as I could tell, it's only an essay if you write about how your parents were alcoholics, how you were beaten as a child, or how you live with a terrible illness. Needless to say no one liked the stuff I wrote and I didn't do very well.
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#49"Topics in X" courses where you pretty much got to do whatever you wanted and then you wrote a report and gave a presentation about it, exploring what you wanted to with advice from the professor.
Somewhere in there is an argument for constructionist education a la Piaget et al.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#50Creative Non-fiction
After an entire semester of that class I still fail to grasp what exactly a non-fiction essay is. So far as I could tell, it's only an essay if you write about how your parents were alcoholics, how you were beaten as a child, or how you live with a terrible illness. Needless to say no one liked the stuff I wrote and I didn't do very well.
I think it is just recounting "the facts" in narrative form.