Poll: Name your three favorite Rutgers courses

[LevaosLectures]

1.Shakespeare with Ron Levao (obviously)
2.Byzantine History/Crusades with Stephen Reinert
3.Tolkien with William C. Dowling (no apologies!)

 

[scarleteagle]

Civil war with Gillette
Ancient warfare and diplomacy with Figueroa
Japan's rise to power with Roden

I also had 2 very good geology professors but I've forgotten their names.

 

[rubaseball78]

Most interesting course outside my major was a Mass Communications elective I took. We spent the entire semester studying the media's role in the Kent State shootings.

 

[zappaa]

Multilevel Calculous and theory….

 

[virginiaru]

Western Civilization - Peter Charanis
American Political History - Richard McCormick (the father)
Cultural History of the United States - Warren Sussman

The funny thing about this is that I actually started as a biology major, but was so impressed with the history electives that I had that I ultimately changed majors.

 

[phs73rc77gsm83]

Western Civilization - Peter Charanis
American Political History - Richard McCormick (the father)
Cultural History of the United States - Warren Sussman

The funny thing about this is that I actually started as a biology major, but was so impressed with the history electives that I had that I ultimately changed majors.

Cultural History of the U.S. With Sussman was great. I had him for four or five courses. Richard McCormick's History of NJ was great too. He assigned papers that required primary research, my topic was the cholera epidemic of 1832 in NJ. Of course that was preinternet so research meant going through medical records, railroad and canal documents, newspapers, etc. Most of the history classes I had were in Bishop House, which sadly is an administration building now.

 

[rc64]

1. Late 19th/early 20th century French literature - Serge Sobelevich
2. Medieval French lit. - Gerald Bertin.
3. Genetics

Too bad that we're limited to three favorites!

 

[ru8081]

Geology of the Moon and Planets.

 

[PatrickRU92]

Histology Dr Babiarz (he still around? best teacher I had at RU)
Sexuality in Literature Professor Charney---class was fracking HILARIOUS
Organic Chem--multiple professors but best was Dr Moss--challenging but well presented course

 

[LevaosLectures]

Geology of the Moon and Planets.

Rocks for jocks.

 

[B1GRU91]

Eastern Mysticism (Buddhism) with Renee Weber
Critical Theory with Stephen E. Bronner
American Foreign Policy with D. Michael Schaffer
Philosophy of Law with Edward Bloustein (who passed away mid semester)

 

[seels2662]

Its funny because I actually graduated from NJIT but two of my 3 favorite classes were from RU-Newark-A Science Fiction class and an HTML class that because it was listed under Journalism at RU it satisfied my English/Humanities requirement which was awesome for a Comp Sci major. The third was the Astronomy class at NJIT. I have no idea the names of the instructors.

 

[Local Shill]

-Dinosaurs
-Theater Appreciation
-Topics in Mathematics for the Liberal Arts

 

[BigLou]

Its been a while so its tough to recall but probably my favorite course was one I did during my MBA years. Dr. Paul Nadler's course on banking (maybe called Money and Banking). Thugh I was taking most of my courses in Newark for the MBA I travelled down to New Brunswick to take Dr. Nadler's course (he didn't want to teach in Newark supposedly because his car was stolen. I also have 2 great stories of the late Dr Nadler.

A couple of years after taking his course, I was at an all day seminar given by the NJ CPA Society. Dr Nadler was the main speaker. Before he spoke I ran into him outside the room and introduced myself as a former student. We spoke for a few minutes he went in to give his speech. During the speech he had, as usual, a number of antidotes and examples. He proceeded to plug my name in each one as the main character in each story.

The second time I ran into him was near his in Summit, NJ where he lived,. I had a meeting at a client's home around the corner from his home. After the meeting, I stood in the street talking to another participant from the meeting. Dr. Nadler, now retired, rove by. Seeing 2 guys in suits was enough for him to stop the car. I recognized him, re-introduced myself again, and had a nice talk for about 15 minutes. Truly a memorable professor.

 

[hoquat63]

Latin Lyric Poetry - Smith Palmer Bovie
Comparative Economic Systems - Robert Alexander
American Government - Gerald Pomper

 

[RU85inFla]

I took Sex and Pregnancy because it fit into my schedule. My wife and I were taking an english class together that fit our schedules. After class we walked past Vorhees and a bunch of our friends were walking out of Sex and Pregnancy giggling. I asked them what the class was about and they said they just saw a porno and the professor told them if it bothered them to drop the class immediately. We ran to drop add.

Econometrics with Seneca formulated what I wanted to do in life and i later TA'd for the same class in grad school with him as the professor.

Art History I & II were the best classes I ever took from a general knowledge perspective. Very useful at cocktail parties.

 

[KeithK7624]

Civil war with Gillette
Ancient warfare and diplomacy with Figueroa
Japan's rise to power with Roden

I also had 2 very good geology professors but I've forgotten their names.

Gillette is the man... I was a history major and pretty much made it a point to register for his classes.

 

[KeithK7624]

Gillette is the man... I was a history major and pretty much made it a point to register for his classes.

I also had a communications class, comm 101, with a relatively young professor (forget his name). He spent half the semester making fun of Bellichek and didn't realize his son was in our class. This was also one of my favorite classes along with US 2 and NJ History with Gillette.

 

[BigLou]

Econometrics with Seneca formulated what I wanted to do in life and i later TA'd for the same class in grad school with him as the professor.

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I saw Seneca give a talk a couple of years ago. Still very sharp. No one understands the NJ economy as well as he does. While he had no reason to remember me as a student he was very happy to talk with me after his presentation.

 

[ClassOf02]

Rutgers only has one course. The 10th hole is a bitch.

 

[Scarlet Shack]

American Government with Ross Baker
World History in the 20Th Century with Prof Adas and Lloyd Gardner
International Political Economy-D Michael Shafer
American Foreign Policy-D Michael Shafer
Current Moral and Social Issues-Stephen Stich
Econometrics with Joseph Seneca

Regret that I missed Philospohy of Law with Dr Bloustein...he was supposed to teach it but passed away the semester before I took it (took in Spring 2000, he passed in December 2009)

 

[RUChoppin]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe - Terry Matilsky (honors seminar)
Late Romantic Literature - William Galperin
Creative Writing Fiction - Catherine Texier

Bonus - Worst Courses:
Science Fiction - Myra Jehlen
The Spy Novels of John LeCarre - Myron Aranoff (honors seminar)

 

[rc64]

1. Late 19th/early 20th century French literature - Serge Sobelevich
2. Medieval French lit. - Gerald Bertin.
3. Genetics

Too bad that we're limited to three favorites!

So, I'll add another: Practice and Study of Traditions of Art - Sam Wiener. At and around RU in those days were George Segal, Roy Lichtenstein and Alan Kaprow. Prof. Wiener would often cite or refer to them. I thought that all colleges had that kind of art talent. Not so. RU was really special.

 

[ecojew]

"Art History I & II were the best classes I ever took from a general knowledge perspective. Very useful at cocktail parties."

I agree and would add that they contributed to my enjoyment of museums over the past 45 years. I can't believe how much I still remember from those two semesters.

Counting those two as just one, my other two favorites would be Modern Chinese History (2 semesters) over at Douglass and the Geography of the Soviet Union on College Avenue. From those favorites, you would never guess that my major was economics.

 

[jiggscasey]

Advanced Remote Sensing - Lathrop
Cartography - Siegel
Conservation - Balm

 

[HeyHuey]

Critical Analysis of American Sport - Phil Shinnick

 

[RUnion]

1. Heat Transfer
2. Internal Combustion engines
3. European Geography

 

[B1GRU91]

American Government with Ross Baker
World History in the 20Th Century with Prof Adas and Lloyd Gardner
International Political Economy-D Michael Shafer
American Foreign Policy-D Michael Shafer
Current Moral and Social Issues-Stephen Stich
Econometrics with Joseph Seneca

Regret that I missed Philospohy of Law with Dr Bloustein...he was supposed to teach it but passed away the semester before I took it (took in Spring 2000, he passed in December 2009)

He passed in December 9, 1989 (just looked up his passing). It seemed, as I recall, earlier in the semester. He had invited the class to brunch at the President's residence, excused himself towards the end as he needed to catch a flight to the Bahamas. The next day we heard he had passed, and Howard Segal (sp?) finished the last couple weeks of the course.

 

[Piscataway]

Organic Chemistry I and II with Dr Oconnor

 

[mikebal9]

All my psych classes with Carlton James
Sports in American history at Rutgers Camden during summer session
Theater Appreciation

 

[mikebal9]

Rutgers only has one course. The 10th hole is a bitch.

Agree. I hate the 10th.

 

[phs73rc77gsm83]

Its been a while so its tough to recall but probably my favorite course was one I did during my MBA years. Dr. Paul Nadler's course on banking (maybe called Money and Banking). Thugh I was taking most of my courses in Newark for the MBA I travelled down to New Brunswick to take Dr. Nadler's course (he didn't want to teach in Newark supposedly because his car was stolen. I also have 2 great stories of the late Dr Nadler.

A couple of years after taking his course, I was at an all day seminar given by the NJ CPA Society. Dr Nadler was the main speaker. Before he spoke I ran into him outside the room and introduced myself as a former student. We spoke for a few minutes he went in to give his speech. During the speech he had, as usual, a number of antidotes and examples. He proceeded to plug my name in each one as the main character in each story.

The second time I ran into him was near his in Summit, NJ where he lived,. I had a meeting at a client's home around the corner from his home. After the meeting, I stood in the street talking to another participant from the meeting. Dr. Nadler, now retired, rove by. Seeing 2 guys in suits was enough for him to stop the car. I recognized him, re-introduced myself again, and had a nice talk for about 15 minutes. Truly a memorable professor.

Yes, It was Money and Banking. I had that in Newark in '82 when the business school MBA was called Graduate School of Management. He was very good!

 

[JimmyTheSaint]

Oral History of WWII (Seminar) with Professor Chambers (also include War, Peace and the Military as a lecture by him)
Causes of War - Can't remember the guys name.
and then for the old joke class....


Love (History Class)

As an aside...I had a Nj Politics Class where the professor was let go halfway through the semester and everyone stopped going...Must have been 2003 or 4.

 

[RULoyal]

Interesting and Edible Meats
Cowboys and Indians

 

[JPhoboken]

All At Cook

Ventilation design and survey Lab- Friday afternoon, pizza and beer with Dr. Manganelli.

Microeconomics- Forget Professors name, but told great stories relating to economics with slow gravelly voice, couldn't wait to get to class. Anybody who could get a science major to like economics must be a heck of a teacher. Anybody remember his name?

Landscape Architecture-Roy Deboer was one of the best teachers I have ever had. His passion was infectious.

 

[UMRU]

Histology Dr Babiarz (he still around? best teacher I had at RU)
Sexuality in Literature Professor Charney---class was fracking HILARIOUS
Organic Chem--multiple professors but best was Dr Moss--challenging but well presented course

Bruce Babiarz retired about 3 years ago. Great teacher and all around great guy. Once, midway through a particularly intense happy hour, he walked out the front door of the labs to piss behind the dumpster, saying something along the lines of "what the hell are they going to do to me, I'm tenured".

 

[jiggscasey]

Organic Chemistry I and II with Dr Oconnor

O'Connor was great. Too bad they split the lecture duties in 3. But still a top 5 course as challenging as it was.

 

[JPhoboken]

Agree. I hate the 10th.

I hate this hole as well.

All they would have to do to fix this hole is install a concrete drain pipe where the stream is, and fill it all in and make it fairway all the way to the hole. Then it would at least be playable. You could still blast it off the tee with no fear of rolling into the crap in the valley or if you hit it short, it could roll down to the fairway where you could chip it back up.

They are always talking about pace of play, have they seen how long people look for balls down there? They could speed up the Par 5 12 doing the same thing with the stream in the middle. That quagmire in the middle of the fairway does nothing but slow up play.

 

[hoquat63]

Wasn't thinking about grad courses earlier. I had Prof Nadler at GSM - excellent course; also went to GSE - Kathleen McNally for a course on Economics of Education. One other undergrad course I took in the evening - Origins of WWII with Prof Chapin (who mentioned he had two more well known musical brothers).

 

[PoorTailor]

Rutgers only has one course. The 10th hole is a bitch.

So I would say Calc 101 because I had it in high school already and could go to about every third class and be fine. Which meant this class rocked because I spent it at the student center shooting pool.

Meteorology I and II were also very cool. Enjoyed those classes a lot Forget the professors name but he was very entertaining and fun.

And then of course there is the student center ping pong tables and the front nine of the course. 10 hole always caused me problems. Also think that 2nd hole tee shot was always a pain. Always over cut the ball and ended up next to the 8th green.