The Most Unique Course Offered at Every SEC School
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While we were at MSU in the early 90s, my roommate took Western Equitation - horseback riding. It was a 4-hour class that included a lab, but all they did every week was catch, saddle and ride horses. There was a textbook but he never bought it.
The class recorded one grade - a final exam - for all the points of course. The test nearly kicked his ***. He'd been taking the class to get 4 hours of easy A to average in, but was able to scrape a C on the exam because he'd grown up with horses and dealing with them was part of his life. He said there were other people in the exam completely freaking out - crying in the classroom, all that.
He himself was pissed as hell. Needless to say, the person teaching the class had never hinted the test would be anything like that. There really hadn't ever been any lecture - just how to put a saddle on a horse demoed once or twice at the beginning of the semester. After that, they just rode. The moral being, just because it's a sop subject, don't assume it'll come with a sop test.
The class recorded one grade - a final exam - for all the points of course. The test nearly kicked his ***. He'd been taking the class to get 4 hours of easy A to average in, but was able to scrape a C on the exam because he'd grown up with horses and dealing with them was part of his life. He said there were other people in the exam completely freaking out - crying in the classroom, all that.
He himself was pissed as hell. Needless to say, the person teaching the class had never hinted the test would be anything like that. There really hadn't ever been any lecture - just how to put a saddle on a horse demoed once or twice at the beginning of the semester. After that, they just rode. The moral being, just because it's a sop subject, don't assume it'll come with a sop test.
I knew I always had a special place in my heart for South Carolina.
Some of these sound like can't miss classes.
History of the Devil
Zombie Apocalypse
Arguing the End of the World
Sign my bored *** up.
History of the Devil
Zombie Apocalypse
Arguing the End of the World
Sign my bored *** up.
I came here to say the same, not a bigger bunch of frauds and myths anywhere else in the SEC. They are all a legend in their own mind
Back in the 1970’s State offered “Archery and bait casting”. I wanted to take it but opted for “Basketball and Football Officiating “.
When I was a student at South Carolina there was a Geography of Carolina BBQ class that was so hard to get in to. Night class with BBQ provided each week. I never got in but a few friends did.
The one at Ole Miss is a co-op course, I bet. Nothing beats on the job training.
When I was at State I took a Philosophy of Religion class. Wasn't more than a dozen students in the class. Only had a mid term which was 33% and final which was 67%. Every class we would go down some rabbit hole discussing some topic, not always religion. At the end of class the professor would casually say to read chapters so and so, we'd never discuss what he assigned us to read Mid term was one question, something that was fairly simple The final was a MFer, about 50 questions covering the book he had assigned us to read but never actually discussed in class Over half the class failed. Luckily I'd read the textbook and passed but it was a brutal lesson to some folks.
Man, that was the best class. Incredible food and wine. Cigar and cognac/whiskey/bourbon day. Best 3 hours of credit ever.
I'm sitting here, scratching my head, and wondering how there is any justification at all for those being COLLEGE courses. The only reason I can think of is that everybody needs a little time off. Or maybe a GPA builder.
Speaking of GPA - back in the day, at State it was called QPA - Quality Point Average. A was 3, B was 2, C was 1. So a 2.9 was a great average.
Speaking of GPA - back in the day, at State it was called QPA - Quality Point Average. A was 3, B was 2, C was 1. So a 2.9 was a great average.
