Poll: Name your three favorite Rutgers courses
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I took IC from him and managed to get a "B".
Military History of the US - Chambers
CS-40? Database Design - David Rosenstein - best "teacher" I ever had. No book, all lectures from his head. Rode us hard. He kept the class engaged and on its toes at all times. He called on people at random, and didn't pull any punches. Had some nice quips that he mixed in to the lecture.
Sociology - Sherry Gorlick - I was the lone conservative in the room. I think she despised me at first, but I livened up the class. Gave her and the rest someone to pick on. She thanked me at the end of the semester for my well thought out (but wrong) opinions, and helping to keep the rest of the class engaged. Got a "B".
Absolutely hated Expository Writing. I did that crap in high school. Was accused of plagiarism because I used the word "apogee" in an essay.
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RF, great job, yes that was him. Can't believe I forgot his name!!!!!!! Loved listening to that guy. Did you have micro with him?
One of my biggest regrets at Cook was that I could not fit interesting and edible meats into my schedule. I haven't heard of one person who took that that didn't rave about it.
What was the difference in the classroom between managerial and financial accounting?
Oh please, we all know he texts 4Real constantly to get solutions to real-world problems. ;-)
Strong list there. I would add Vietnam War - Lloyd Gardner and WWI - Michael Adas
Yeah, like how can I take out a bunch of lib-tards protesting at WEF conference in Davos with my Glock 9 mm, while negotiating a 120 mph hairpin turn in my A6, during an earthquake. While getting a hummer from Caitlyn.
Financial was conducted in a lecture hall while Managerial was in a smaller class. My preference for FinanciaI was more subject content preference and the the fact that the Managerial professor was a drone.
I too had Adas for a history course, can't remember which one but he truly made me embrace lectures. I probably never would have enjoyed Sociology and CJ as much if I hadnt had Adas for lecture my fresh or sophomore year.
Also picked up those same tips with Prof. Hinds
ALWAYS make them do it by the books haha
Hey I just thought of another one: Ancient Roman history (a few different courses in that general area) with Corey "Loog" Brennan, former bass player for the Lemonheads.
Very cool - love the Lemonheads (saw them 2 or 3 times in the late 80s/early 90s, once with Julianna Hatfield opening, before she and Evan Dando became a couple). When was this? Is he still there by any chance? Just curious since my son transferred to RU in the history department and is also a big Lemonheads fan and is in a local DIY band (plays drums and bass, occasionally) that plays the basement show scene a lot.
Got it. I remember financial being so boring because I couldn't correlate to anything real-world, and that's primarily how I process information. I never made it to managerial, but after 30 years of owning my own businesses I love accounting (even though my accountant does it all; come to think of fit, maybe that's why I love it....). But I never did find out what goes into managerial "accounting," though I do know how to manage people.
I can't believe I forgot about Gardner. He would occasionally double team a lecture with Sussman and it would be both entertaining and enlightening.
From my recollection of managerial accounting, it was not necessarily focused on management of people but a way of managing an business/organization (or business/organizational unit, cost center, etc) in terms of a methodology for allocating costs and resources (including headcount) to the appropriate unit level. It's often also known simply as Cost Accounting.
Keith. An explanation: my "wrong board" post was a (confusing) edit of a lengthy post of mine, adding some info as a reply to another poster. As my reply took the conversation off in a political direction, I went back and deleted it. My comment of "wrong board" actually referred to my reply, not the OP.
I was a Bio-sci major ("throat" as we used to be called)
Science courses:
1) Honors seminar in Embryology with Dr. Nathan Hart
2) Microbiology
3) Heredity and Eugenics with the great Dr. Defalco
Non-sciences were the most enjoyable:
1) Shakespeare
2 French, Italian and Spanish Lit courses. ( I only took the ones with essay finals-aced them all)
3) Art History at Douglas. Great course, still remember it today.
Science courses:
1) Honors seminar in Embryology with Dr. Nathan Hart
2) Microbiology
3) Heredity and Eugenics with the great Dr. Defalco
Non-sciences were the most enjoyable:
1) Shakespeare
2 French, Italian and Spanish Lit courses. ( I only took the ones with essay finals-aced them all)
3) Art History at Douglas. Great course, still remember it today.
I had a couple of memorable ones:
Environmental Psychology - The course still influences where I sit in meetings. Also, the labs were awesome. In one experiment, we had to approach people in the Rutgers pub to see how close we could get before violating their personal space.
Technical Writing - The course taught me how to take technical concepts and make them easy to understand through graphs, diagrams, and instructions. I still use the ideas in the course when I make presentations.
Music History - Took it in the old music building on college ave. Fireplace in the room made it feel like the ultimate traditional college class. We had to go to the Douglass library to listen to LP's back in the days before the Internet. Learned a lot about classical music.
Senior Internship at Rutgers Medical School' Child Day Hospital - Did my internship there, working with little kids who had severe emotional problems ( for example, tried to kill their parents or burn down their houses). It was fascinating (and sometimes scary) to work in a token economy environment where kids were rewarded if they did not misbehave for 15 mins.
-Scarlet Jerry
Environmental Psychology - The course still influences where I sit in meetings. Also, the labs were awesome. In one experiment, we had to approach people in the Rutgers pub to see how close we could get before violating their personal space.
Technical Writing - The course taught me how to take technical concepts and make them easy to understand through graphs, diagrams, and instructions. I still use the ideas in the course when I make presentations.
Music History - Took it in the old music building on college ave. Fireplace in the room made it feel like the ultimate traditional college class. We had to go to the Douglass library to listen to LP's back in the days before the Internet. Learned a lot about classical music.
Senior Internship at Rutgers Medical School' Child Day Hospital - Did my internship there, working with little kids who had severe emotional problems ( for example, tried to kill their parents or burn down their houses). It was fascinating (and sometimes scary) to work in a token economy environment where kids were rewarded if they did not misbehave for 15 mins.
-Scarlet Jerry
So far the only professor that's been mentioned on here that I've had has been Professor Chambers.
Also, didn't want to forget "Human Sexuality." The prof wanted to encourage candid conversations, so she opened the first class by having everyone list slang words for "penis." I still remember the kid who wrote "heat seeking juice missile."
Wasn't Genovese the one who said he "would welcome a communist victory in Vietnam" and sent the media into a frenzy in the mid-60's? Made RU look like a pinko commie university. (Oh, maybe it was!)
I thought it was that Executive Leadership class where the teacher told me I did a good job on an assignment before adding "not as good as (Big Lou)"
Environmental Design Analysis (EDA)
Interesting and Edible Meats
Human Sexuality at Douglass. We basically watched porn and one of our assignments was to write out a sexual fantasy and the prof then read some of them out loud in class. Interesting to say the least.
Interesting and Edible Meats
Human Sexuality at Douglass. We basically watched porn and one of our assignments was to write out a sexual fantasy and the prof then read some of them out loud in class. Interesting to say the least.
Genovese, history of slavery. He said something like I do no oppose the impending Vietnam Cong victory, I welcome it. The Republican candidate for governor, Wayne Dumont, made it a central part of his campaign. Richard Hughes supported Rutgers. Hughes crushed Dumont. Genovese was the reason I went to grad school at Chapel Hill and took my course work in southern history. Truly I never understood his brand of Marxism focused on Antonio Gramsci. In his later years, following the lead of his wife Elizabeth Fox Genovese, he became a practicing Catholic and a political conservative. A great historian and teacher whose ideas had a strong impact on the study of slavery and the South.
Chinese history at Douglass. Can't remember the name of the prof.
Honors seminar at Bishop taught by Richard Brown, a colonial historian who moved on to William and Mary.
Chinese history at Douglass. Can't remember the name of the prof.
Honors seminar at Bishop taught by Richard Brown, a colonial historian who moved on to William and Mary.
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I'm late to this party, but what the hell:
Favorites:
Elements of Meteorology (Arnesen) - One textbook I wished I kept. Several football players in my class and the prof was funny. Learned a lot what Meteorology wasn't (that it was an easy discipline). Years later, I realized that everything I knew about Meteorology before I took that course was actually Broadcast Meteorology.
Anthropology of Sexuality and Eroticism (Moffat) - Required to write a confidential essay about a sexual experience we had.
Cowboys and Indians (Gillette) - I still hear him saying "namby pamby cattle". He also wrote a great book about NJ and the Civil War.
Jerseyana (Gillespie) - Didn't learn a whole lot about NJ that I didn't already know, but the required 13 mile death march on the D&R towpath from Amwell Road to the Landing Lane Bridge was unforgettable.
Least Favorites: Microeconomics (Balinky). Some mornings I was not fond of showers, every morning he was never fond on hats worn in his class. I'm sure I got docked a whole letter grade for my disobedience.
Some food science course with LaChance, who like Balinky had his inane God Complex rules, such as insisting that you take the stairs to his office in the Food Science building for office hours, and his office was on the top floor. The other memorable thing about that class was the walk to his class on the first day of Spring Semester 1985, it was like 5 below zero that day.
Favorites:
Elements of Meteorology (Arnesen) - One textbook I wished I kept. Several football players in my class and the prof was funny. Learned a lot what Meteorology wasn't (that it was an easy discipline). Years later, I realized that everything I knew about Meteorology before I took that course was actually Broadcast Meteorology.
Anthropology of Sexuality and Eroticism (Moffat) - Required to write a confidential essay about a sexual experience we had.
Cowboys and Indians (Gillette) - I still hear him saying "namby pamby cattle". He also wrote a great book about NJ and the Civil War.
Jerseyana (Gillespie) - Didn't learn a whole lot about NJ that I didn't already know, but the required 13 mile death march on the D&R towpath from Amwell Road to the Landing Lane Bridge was unforgettable.
Least Favorites: Microeconomics (Balinky). Some mornings I was not fond of showers, every morning he was never fond on hats worn in his class. I'm sure I got docked a whole letter grade for my disobedience.
Some food science course with LaChance, who like Balinky had his inane God Complex rules, such as insisting that you take the stairs to his office in the Food Science building for office hours, and his office was on the top floor. The other memorable thing about that class was the walk to his class on the first day of Spring Semester 1985, it was like 5 below zero that day.
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Anything taught by Clement Price. Rutgers lost a great History professor and champion of Rutgers earlier this year. Professor Kimball,recently retired, was great as well. As far as enthusiasm, Professor Hunczak could not be beat.
America in Vietnam with Lloyd Gardner. (That man is the reason I went to grad school. We won't discuss the reason I never did the thesis.)
The Crusades with Steven Reinert.
I didn't go to class enough to have a third, and I don't want to offer a second Gardner.
The Crusades with Steven Reinert.
I didn't go to class enough to have a third, and I don't want to offer a second Gardner.
Pretty sure I had Balinky for macro--he had the thick glasses and essentially read from the textbook the entire class, right? It was among the most boring classes I ever had, and people were asleep in every other desk. I got a B, which was my required minimum grade to not be in trouble with my tuition-paying father.
Development of Western Religious Thought taught by Mason Gross/ Richard Schlatter (Gross was awesome)
Byzantine History Peter Charanis
War and Economic change taught by The infamous Sydney Rattner aka Ratman as in Batman
Byzantine History Peter Charanis
War and Economic change taught by The infamous Sydney Rattner aka Ratman as in Batman
