Hey. I am a senior in Biology and Animal Science. I will be finishing both degrees next semester and will only have 11 hours. I need 12 to keep financial aid. Anyone have any classes they loved? I'm having senioritis, so if it was fun but difficult, no thanks. Let me know what classes you liked at State. I thought about maybe archery for that one hour class. Thanks

10/3/2011 4:23:36 PM

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By the way, if it's your last semester, you only need the required number of hours to graduate to maintain full-time status and this also applies to financial aid (FA) (in most cases). If your FA is via the university, then start talking to your advisor/FA rep/etc. and get this straightened out. Took me a while, lots of emails, tons of phone calls, but I finally got one of the fools in the FA office to read the university policy and they agreed that I could take <12 hours and keep my FA, since their policy is that you be full-time, per the university policy; and that the university policy states that in your last semester, any student is full-time as long as they're taking the number of hours remaining to graduate.

If your insurance and/or 3rd party FA doesn't go by this university policy, try talking them into it, send them a copy of the policy, etc. Worked for me.

Or you can go the lazy route and just take a PE... archery, bowling, racquetball, etc.

10/3/2011 4:46:24 PM

ultimate frisbee is fun too.

10/3/2011 5:23:47 PM

ultimate frisbee and racquetball are both fun and easy as long as you don't mind sweating

10/3/2011 6:49:53 PM

some intro programming class in Python or something

10/3/2011 7:04:04 PM

Depends on your interests. Fun classes I took:

Music Theory I
Intro to Geographic Information Systems
Just about everything in the Graphic Communications department

10/4/2011 12:03:23 AM

what class is intro to python?

10/4/2011 11:04:20 AM

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"I thought about maybe archery for that one hour class. "

I liked that class.

10/6/2011 1:37:01 AM

psy311: Social Psychology.

10/6/2011 3:22:25 PM

orienteering

10/7/2011 12:33:28 AM

Aerobics

10/7/2011 9:59:45 AM

human sexuality was pretty fun

10/7/2011 9:26:06 PM

Captive Animal Biology is fun and not particularly difficult.

10/7/2011 10:38:18 PM

I think human sexuality and ultimate frisbee are taught by the same guy. He's good in either one, though I took frisbee twice because it was so much fun. All the other fun classes I would recommend require work.

10/8/2011 11:06:43 PM

Do they still offer Toxicology with that guy that loves Zappa? That class was awesome, never went and still made an A

10/9/2011 12:01:08 PM

Wow delon, the CS department doesn't seem to offer one, and the closest thing I could find is an old graduate topics class: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kaltofen/courses/Languages/PythonExamples/python-lectures/_build/html/lectures/one.html

I was thinking it might be more like my alma mater, where they start students off with one of two easy-to-learn languages, Python or Scheme (though when I went there it was just Scheme): http://www.cs.indiana.edu/classes/c211/

10/9/2011 4:45:34 PM

Animal Behavior was fun and easy. Language and Linguistics was very easy and fun. Plants and Civilization fun and easy.

10/9/2011 5:16:33 PM

i always suggest basic canoeing

holden teaches it. cool guy. class was only for half a semester and you choose from a day trip or an overnight canoeing/camping trip at the end.

10/9/2011 8:47:05 PM

Insects and People
Human Sexuality

10/10/2011 11:56:37 AM

no charge = ballroom dancing (but good luck getting into it)

costs money = bowling, but it's totally worth it

or, just take one of the 90 billion other gym classes state offers. I always wanted to take fencing and never got around to it.

10/12/2011 11:59:25 PM

For PEs, skiiing, archery, squash, and water aerobics were all fun.

For anything else, the bee keeping class is a lot of fun.

10/13/2011 10:28:41 AM

^^same here w/ fencing.

bees and beekeeping.

HI 251/252 with barker will change your life - best prof EVER. not the easiest but worth it as the classes are very entertaining. if it's full just go the first day and he'll add you but bring a folding chair as the class will be packed.

anything with beckman is a joke and is interesting and an easy A+ - Plants and Civilization

anything with dr. patterson is great - world foods and population

10/17/2011 12:52:00 AM

barker doesn't teach here anymore but he was one of the more strange teacher's I've had, he would ask you questions about other people in the class on a final exam and i believe he gave extra credit for going to parties

10/18/2011 1:37:19 PM

Take some relevant to your degree... fight the urge to take a fun class for a fun class's sake. Bee keeping is apparently uber-important to the domestic ecosystem in most CONUS areas. If you're doing animal science, that might be good.

I mention taking something relevant to your major because it helps with job searches. You take some 500-level class that you think is challenging-yet-manageable and stick with it. I took some coursework in number theory and computational fluid dynamics and it helped me to stand out a bit amongst the other undergrads.

10/21/2011 3:42:52 PM

I actually wish I took more non-major courses in college.

Edit: I mean only my own accord of course. I definitely do NOT think that more non-major courses needed to be in the required curriculum.

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10/21/2011 7:09:24 PM

This is the professor (Dr. Sorenson) who teach ENT 201 Insects and People. He has a youtube video that advertises his class, and he has those weird smartphone scan things around campus, and when you scan it it brings you to this video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLrcqCsNTbk

11/29/2011 5:21:37 PM

run conditioning

11/29/2011 9:59:59 PM

The correct answer is the class with the greatest number of cute girls. All these other suggestions are bullshit (unless ballroom dancing has a lot of chicks and not just dudes trying to mack on chicks). Is there a yoga class?

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11/29/2011 10:30:21 PM

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"The correct answer is the class with the greatest number of cute girls. "

that would be an intro to textile design class. The only dudes were not into girls, so you probably would have little competition.

11/29/2011 11:00:41 PM

HI 322: History of Science

Kimler is the man!!

http://history.ncsu.edu/faculty/view/william_kimler1

11/30/2011 4:47:34 PM

^Seconded.

I had the class my senior year and it was great. Very interesting mix of science and history. Dr. Kimler was one of the best professors I had while in school. I took the class with some of my senior design classmates and Kimler was always interested in what kind of stuff we were doing with it. The class was fairly easy... only three tests total I think, but it was interesting enough to where you barely had to study.

12/5/2011 8:55:15 AM

^^ lol Kimler picked the silliest picture to put up on that page. Totally him though.

12/11/2011 1:44:26 AM

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"anything with beckman is a joke and is interesting and an easy A+ - Plants and Civilization"

agreed.

and the last day of class he gave us alcohol (with proof of age).

5/18/2012 7:59:57 PM

haha he probably no call / no show'ed our class 8 times or so throughout the semester. sometimes there would be a note on the door when you got there, but never an email. one time he did it for a test and just gave us all 100's. the courses he showed up for were really interesting though.

took him again for something like "plants in folklore, myth, and legend" as a 3xx level class and the tests came from the notes, which he let us use in class. he also offered to write me LOR's. great, strange, guy.

6/1/2012 9:38:18 PM

ENG 282 -- Intro to Film

You watch movies....doesnt get any better than that

6/5/2012 11:21:58 AM

If only you could actually get credit for this: https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet

6/7/2012 11:42:43 AM

ENG 282 is a really fun class. The days you talk about the movies instead of watching them kind of drag, but overall its fun and an easy A.

6/9/2012 12:26:28 PM

as has been stated, you don't have to take 12 hours your final semester to be considered a full time student.

if you still want to take 12 hours, take a PE. pretty much any of the non-basic PE's are fun and if you go you can't fail.

6/13/2012 10:53:36 AM

I took metal shop my final semester, I don't even know if it's still offered. But it was cool. You weld and lathe mill and whatnot.

8/19/2012 9:17:17 PM

Rockclimbing, or Golf with Prof. Kidd

8/22/2012 5:58:43 PM

Golf. Great skill to learn, and lessons are expensive later in life.

8/27/2012 4:57:59 PM

Rockclimbing was indeed pretty great. I took 3 PE's my last semester, 2 to fulfill the requirements and then the last one because I needed 1 more elective credit to graduate.

Distance Ed Bowling was awesome... you get DVDs to watch (if you so choose) and have a handful of optional practice days to come in for a few hours with the instructor. Then come in for the final where you take a very brief written test and bowl 5 games, the average of which determines your final grade (but who cares because you just need a PASS)

8/27/2012 8:33:26 PM

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" ENT 201 Insects and People"

loved it and passed with flying colors

9/25/2012 11:10:22 PM