I’m Brazilian and at the university I study at (UnB- Universidade de Brasília), there’s a course called Happiness. I’m a math major, so I’ve only taken Crying and Tears, but that’s a thing.
This course was made after a student killed herself on campus. It surprises me that OP is not aware of this, which was huge news when it happened last year
In Colombia ( I’m not even kidding) some universities offer: Technology of Ironman, the philosophy behind The Lord of the Rings and Religion according to The Simpson
My university had a program where students taught courses on a subject of their choosing(after review from a board obviously) for actual credit. I took a class on Disney Music and Broadway Musicals. No regrets!
My university had the same program! I taught a class on Fandom culture, using anthropology journal articles based on fandom and online communities as our readings. It was 1 hour credit to teach and to take. These courses were good at filling in that last hour to stay as a full time student when your other courses added up to weird numbers, or helped break up the stress of all your other courses. They also came with an oppotunity for students to learn how to teach a proper college course. I also took an improv class, a class on Bollywood, and an ASL class this way; other classes I saw involved wine-tasting, beer brewing, the history and culture of Black hair and hairstyles, and Batman.
I was a language major, so I only needed two semesters of science. I took a course in the Astronomy department called "Extraterrestrial Life: Are We Alone in the Universe?", taught by an astrophysicist. A quarter of the students dropped after the first class, when it was revealed that it was going to be a deep dive into what exactly had to happen just right from the Big Bang onward for life to evolve and NOT about Area 51 and UFO sightings. (I hung in there. It was fascinating, but completely useless, skill-wise. Spoiler: According to the Prof, we are almost certainly not alone, but we won't get proof in our lifetimes.)
If you are a language major why do you have to study science?! It doesn't make any sense!! I have a chemistry major and I'm glad that I don't have to study literature and any other humanistic subjects! 'Cause I suck! Yeah I study at a European University
@@noface____ yeah, I understand but it doesn't make any sense. I study chemistry as master degree in Italy but I don't have to study Italian literature, history and stuff like that, it's all about chemistry, you study math and physics in the bachelor degree(subjects which are related somehow to chemistry, but in the master degree you specialise even more) , and I have to pass an English exam because that's universal language but it's basic English not even literature, it's an exam to prove that I am able to speak to other people about science in English
My university in Bogotá offers a class called "Religion According to THE SIMPSONS", but they also have an enology class so sure, you balance it out by getting wine-wasted in class :P
I'm in college, and even though I don't take weird classes, my analytic geometry's professor said once: "saque ese triángulo asesino" in the middle of the class, just because was ranting about how teens are able to spot a killer on a videogame but they are not able to spot a triangle on an analytic geometry problem.
Ana Moreno del Castillo WHAT? De veras? ... Es verdad que un "influencer" no es más que la "cara" de una mini empresa de marketing y comunicación, pero de todos modos...what?!
En la Carlos III hay un grado que va de gestión de contenido multimedia. Pero vamos según lo que me han dicho es una manera de aprender a ser youtuber 🤣
La parte de como ponerse la camisa me recordó a un cuento de Julio Cortázar donde describe como ponerse un pullover, y habla de las mangas y de estar perdido en el azul del abrigo... #literature
Solo por dar información absurda, existía una clase electiva en mi universidad llamada "historias de amor en la Caracas de hoy" nadie entendía de que iba la materia y me quedé con el misterio de saber que era
Marian T UCAB es lo fucking maximo. En com. social habia una electiva Cine del Mundo. Era a las 7am y la profesora tenia una fascinacion por el gore. Jamas olvidare una pelicula china en donde comian fetos humanos. Menos mal no habia desayunado, pero aun asi no lo cambio por nada, mi hermosa Vzla te llevo en mi corazon. Ucabista 100%.
I hope the class on getting dressed is about how to dress according to the occasion. Because , let me tell you, I see all kinds of innaproriate dress when kids come in for interviews. Y'all don't understand how to make a good impression. Jeans, t-shirts and flip flops are only good for lounging at home.
I don't understand your college education system! IT MAKES NO SENSE! I'm British, at high school we study like 10/12 subjects, most people go to college (which is something most 16-18 year olds go to) where we pick 3/4 subjects to study and then some people go to uni to study 1 subject and they take classes within that field. It blows my mind that american's seem to major in psychology and they take classes in everything but psychology. How did you major in it when you take so many other courses in other departments? But seriously Joanna, We have a degree (3 years of your life on one subject) on the subject of GROWING GRASS! literally! This is for people who want to tend to football pitches at Man Utd etc. 3 YEARS ON EXCLUSIVELY STUDYING GRASS JOANNA!
I dont get it either. European education and American education are so different. Like the courses she's showcasing here are just examples,yet they are crazy. Here in Europe it's more classical, boring if you don't like it, but yeah I studied Law and everything was about law even the language classes
i went to a presentation that i am pretty sure was by that prof from UTSA. all about Lemonade but it is fascinating because she dissected cultural and historical elements OH and also pointed out how Beyonce is a genius for this work of art of course
Its a mystery to me why in american universities you go and take courses for years and then decide your major like what the hell. Why don’t you go straight from high school to law school or med school?
Paulina Florast I think it's a good idea though for people who are still not entirely sure on what to study. I mean you're able to try out more things than you've been exposed to since high school. But if you already know what you want to study then what you're saying makes more sense
Because most law and medical schools require an undergraduate degree in a related field. That is, you HAVE to go to college if you want to be a doctor or lawyer.
We have that here in Chile. After high school you go straight to the Uni, and that's it xD We do have a "college" that lasts 2 years, in case you don't know what to study, and after that you can also go to Uni :) I've always found the American system weird. xd
There's a class at Georgia Tech during this Fall 2018 named "HAPPINESS for engineers". The syllabus says: "learn how to sustainably increase happiness, work more effectively with others, recognize which human needs are fundamental, appreciate cultural differences..." It made me laugh at first, but then I got scared about it. It'd be probably better to take some therapy sessions.
I didn't take any classes that I deemed ridiculous like that, of course I was in college in the late nineties to early '00s… A favorite class that comes to mind was "Anthropology of witchcraft and the occult" & I took a class in "Holography" both were absolutely fascinating!
It really sucks for me because I'm vaguely interested in poetry, literature, geology, anthropology, philosophy, algebraic math, astronomy, world civilizations, European history, geography and who knows what else. I like to learn; I'm a curious person. But I don't want to take the course and dedicate my life to it for four months. I'm a linguistics major why do I have to take CHEM 100? Why couldn't I have just done that in high school? And why is it so encouraged to go to a four-year?
When I was studying anthropology, I take a course "Anthropology of the emotions" we review "the sadness", also we read a book of a russian writer, in the book the horse of the main character die and also his son. And we cried at the end of semester
So, I just finished my third year studying Graphic Design. During the second semester, there was a course called "Environment and Design", which was supossed to be how to reduced the impact of some topics related to design (like printing and packaging design). At first I thought "Ok, this may be important", but then the whole semester the teacher was discussing about the history of our country (btw, I'm from Guatemala), the colonial times, how the upper clase do not allow the country to develop, and how to be a vegan. WHAT?!
You could do so many parts to this including such difficult college courses (I kid you not) as Simpsons and Philosophy (as in Homer Simpson), Strategy of StarCraft, Underwater Basket Weaving, and the list goes on
When I was a freshman, around 1975 (yeah, I know, my sons told me it was around the time of the dinosaurs), we had a spanish class which studied how Donald Duck and his nephews were a bad influence on latinamerican people, from the imperialist United States, showing us how to disrespect our elders (the way his nephews treated him), it was even in the textbook. Since I had to pass the course, I didn't say anything, I just agree with the teacher. But I though "It's just a fuc...g caricature"
Oh wow, I just read this article a couple days ago about "How to Read Donald Duck" in the Guardian. Is this what you were reading back then? www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/05/ariel-dorfman-how-we-roasted-donald-duck-disney-agent-of-imperialism-chile-coup
There is this course at my faculty which is called ‘The history of food’. It was amazing and very interesting. First lesson about bread, second lesson about wine... The best 3 credits ever earned!
Man, I thought some of my required general ed courses are a complete waste of time, but these schools take it to a whole new level offering these courses.
I took a research seminar called "arguments". It was about arguments as shown on stage versus filmed for movies, it did make sense...but that title, man.
I went to engineering school and all of our courses where pretty technical: calculus, physics, thermodynamics etc.. so im pretty confused by all of these courses like really????
In my university you had to take a number of extracurricular classes and you had to pick from an specific list, there were some interesting and useful classes like "accounting for non-accountants" where I learned about personal finances and taxes, but also stupid classes like "conflict dealing" where we just hugged trees....
I love Joanna, but in my college at UT Austin, we have been getting more about the real world to the point right now my professor of Intro to China told us " I dont want you memorizing dates of Emperors or their names but I want you to understand how the past is influenced/marked present-day China socially and politically. The test is not multiple choice but open-response answers." I feel like colleges are adapting to these changes and all the courses I have taken - even though I am a Pre-Med Chinese Language major- are SO USEFUL and interesting and I am loving it.
this comment is late af and pertains to something only briefly mentioned in the video but ladino really is worth learning if you're sephardic and want to learn more about the language and migration of your ancestors or if you're interested in linguistics or mediterranean history
Tree climbing is a module on my countryside management course. For those in the environmental management sector who maybe fell trees, or even have to take samples of canopies, tree climbing is an important skill. Using rope work, and the proper equipment
One of the coolest courses I took in college (albeit one that I totally didn't need to take) was called Reaction to the Past. Basically the entire course was a game in which we all received characters from a certain time in history (ours was immediately after Caesar's assassination) along with the respective character dossier that explained our motivations, alliances, enemies, etc. and we had to play out events as though we were those people. We were certainly allowed to deviate from what actually happened (or it wouldn't be a game) BUT we had to keep it realistic, and throughout the course we had small history essays to submit. It was so much fun.
At my university, New Jersey city university we had a selfie class 😂 I took it as an elective. That class was nothing how it appeared to be but some truth to it. We talked about artists from all genres on how they pushed boundaries or what made them iconic and we had to incorporate their art style in our selfies. Got an A in that class 😂😂
Favourite one I saw when I was applying for University was in Wales, (University of Mid Glamorgan I think?) offering a BSc in Science and Science Fiction...
As long as university is seen as a place for training rather than education, no matter how great a course or subject is, it will always be a waste of time.
So in Norway we can go to "Folkehøyskole" for one year where we can learn things like photography, Cosplay, cartoon drawing, and other silly things. Its basically a free year where you do something you enjoy. And more about self development than school. Then universities are more with normal classes
I'm an overseas Erasmus student from Spain at a University in Belgium, I took a course called Cross Cultural Communication, it was like talking about our cultures (as we were all international students), it was like being in bar but without having a beer hahaha PD: Our means of evaluation was a 5min PowerPoint presentation :D
My brother started his higher education this quarter at Central Washington University. They have a required class for all incoming freshmen called "University 101." I strainght thought of that one night school episode of Community!
In Brazil there is a college called ITA, it's so hard to go through there and finish the course that they used to have (maybe still have) a course to help you to go back fo real life and socialize with people.
Here in Spain, you cannot choose subjects that aren't in your degree syllabus. Well, in theory you could choose "free study credits", but since other degrees are taught in different buildings, and sometimes buildings are lot of kilometres away, or even in other cities, people normally never take them. I would have liked to learn Far East languages when in college, but those were taught only at a different university 35 kilometres north. TOO BAD.
As a person who climbs trees for a living at times, let me say that If your in forestry or planning to become an arborist or utility tree trimmer then a course in tree climbing is useful...Why you may ask? Because lots of trees don't have low hanging branches or at times are more then a meter wide in diameter. Also it's useful to help you learn climbing and rigging knots and rope use so you don't fall out of said trees.
I'm a chemistry technician, and one of our obligatory classes (so something people thought was fundametal for a lab worker to be taught) was 'research methods' a class in which we were given a topic and we were supposed to go and google it - that was the whole class
I took a course that was literally titled "Stranger Things" (y'know, like THE ACTUAL SHOW) this past fall and all we did was watch 1 episode per week and analyze the fuck out of it with gothic literary theory. It was the best fucking class ever.
Joanna I love you , you literally make me laugh I'm over here at Walmart watching your video laughing probably looking crazy lol but you should do one on unnecessary highschool classes too
Hey Joanna, I took a course named "Drinks and Drinking" -- our first class we reviewed what we would not be drinking in class including alcohol, or any starbucks product. Turns out our prof had a thing out for starbucks; naming their beverages "mammalian teet drinks to bring the single 40 year old bachelors back to their mothers." I have also taken a class named "Sheep and other fun facts" , "Peasants Food", "Love and Hate". "What are Ten Days".
Tree climbing is important of you are getting to paid to prune those giant ones. Still even my wimpy university offered Dutch oven cooking, intro to blacksmithing, and archery - all of which I wish I would have time to take. Also this is actually useful : But offers Portuguese for Spanish speakers. Also I heard there are a couple of schools you can get a degree in tolkenolgy as in the author of Lord of the rings
I have a course here at IIT called “Intro to the Profession” which is supposed to teach me basic ethical concerns and expectations within the field I wanna go into and fields like it, but it ought to be called “Question Everything That Comes Out of Your Mouth and Get Written Assignments You’ll Never Fucking Finish”
I took a nice course at my University (First year of my Economics degree) "Aprender a subrayar" Basicamente era aprender hacer perfectas lineas rectas con diferentes marcadores... it was amazing, not it wasn't
At the University of Florida, all freshmen are required to take a class called "What is the Good Life?" I was in that class for an entire semester and never figured it out
Im so glad there were no weird courses at my university. First semesters where commom classes as statistics, philosopy and so (quite related to psychology) and then full psychology stuff; neuro, child development, psychometrics, hr, etc. And as far as i know, most universities here in mexico are like that. No weird side courses
Cornell also as a wine tasting class and for the final you have to try different types of wine and answer questions solely based on taste which is why everyone ends up failing LMAO.
An uni in Poland offers something called "Roleplay in Japanese" as a class for choice. Seems dope to me, especially that it's in the Faculty Of Languages.
I have started computer engineering college this year in the Federal University of Itajubá, in Brazil. We don't have any weird courses, but we have a Robot Battle team, and a world champion robot which got banned from battling in Brazil because of the fact that it has a flamethrower attached to it.
At my state university (University of South Carolina) there is an entire course on Lady Gaga. I’m convinced some courses exist purely for people to have jobs and for universities to siphon more more from students.
I got a credit to go camping. It was in cabins and we had access to running water. We got to canoe, hike, do yoga. It was fantastic, but silly to earn credit for it.
I'm not at the University yet, but in my school i used to be part of the Reding book group, AND LITERALLY WE NEVER READ A BOOK AND WE NEVER DO A REUNION AND WE NEVER DO NOTHING!!!! This shit only happen in my school, sólo en mi país Panamá😂 te amo joanna💚
In my university there's a course called "the science of Iron Man" and in my cousin's there's "philosophy according to the Simpsons" (both top 5 universities in Colombia btw)
2 Classes at University Of Cincinnati that are a guaranteed "A" and everyone should have to take. 1. Business Writing - How to write negative business letters using only POSITIVE words. Try it, it's more challenging than you think. "Dear employee, we appreciate the talent and enthusiasm you have brought to our organization. We wish you much success as you pursue opportunities with other organizations. Jane in Human Resources is looking forward to collecting your laptop computer at 8:30. Good luck in your future endeavors. Best Regards, The Management". The Final Exam was 100 True/False questions that you could finish in 3 minutes if you were paying attention.......The other is Inside The Cincinnati Opera. They got 20 college student to go to the opera for 10 weeks and write a 1 page report. How many of you went to the Opera in college?
MarcioNSantos actually I find havaianas are quality flip flops and this and excellent choice for those horrendous communal bathrooms. I wouldn’t use regular flip flops because I’d run the case of they getting well and musty and moldy and yuck... lol
One of my favorite classes that I've taken thus far was not an absurd class, but the pun is a bit forced: Divercities. It actually was a fascinating exploration of diversity of identities in the history of American cities.
I’m going to school to be a biology teacher. I have to take a fitness assessment class *cue PACER test* and an elective athletic class. One class is called Walking
First of all UABC is the public State-sponsored university in Baja California. And has a system that you can take any class form any faculty in the state to get credits. So aside the engineering faculty (where i study) there is an arts faculty where a lot of classmates take clases because the entre university is full of weebs. There are courses going form manga drawing and voice dubbing (fair enough) but the one that takes the cake is called "Análisis estético y sociocultural del anime" (AESTHETIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL ANALYSIS OF ANIME). In a nutshell, that courses prepares you to become in an anime reviewer and i shit you not: you get more credits taking a clases where you watch and review seasonal anime than taking a mandatory calculus courses.
Georgia Tech had an international affairs course called something like "Wizards and Wookies: Great Power Relations in Film," which, sadly, I had to drop for a real class.
I went to Shenandoah University in Virginia and they offer about 20 ridiculously fresbman seminars that you have to take 1 of during your first semester as a freshman and I was in one called "what's the issue with a little skin tissue?" referring to mmmm foreskin
I did a single semester of art school and like to use it whenever someone's feeling shitty about themselves. Because nothing makes a person feel more accomplished than being compared to an art school dropout. Truly.
all the accents you've tried to do and your best is kim kardashian.
So true 😂
This is the truest comment ever
i was thinking the same jejeje
True
you appeared in her last video! congrats hehe
"I'm like a little leprechaun of truth"
Joanna, get a merch line. I'd like that phrase on a sweatshirt, please!
THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN!
i would wear it .. to my college 😂
Yesss it needs to happen!
@@SAMMCILI to your _The OC_ course perhaps? 🤔
I'd wear it, I'm Irish!
I’m Brazilian and at the university I study at (UnB- Universidade de Brasília), there’s a course called Happiness. I’m a math major, so I’ve only taken Crying and Tears, but that’s a thing.
Jajajajajaja matemática es genial! Although it can be a pain in the ass sometimes 😂
I'm brazilian too but...wtf???
Desesperador, eu diria
Hahahahaha It sounds onthology
This course was made after a student killed herself on campus. It surprises me that OP is not aware of this, which was huge news when it happened last year
In Colombia ( I’m not even kidding) some universities offer: Technology of Ironman, the philosophy behind The Lord of the Rings and Religion according to The Simpson
Reallly??? where???
Sophie T all TH-cam videos I would watch
Okay, the lord of the rings one is justifiable, but religion ACCORDING TO THE SIMPSONS?
Those are really cool CBUs at Los Andes
I always wondered about The Physics of Harry Potter and The physics of Star Trek
My university had a program where students taught courses on a subject of their choosing(after review from a board obviously) for actual credit. I took a class on Disney Music and Broadway Musicals. No regrets!
londonlover1781 that’s a good way to waste money
@@jcgw2 not if you need a fluff class with all those rigorous STEM courses!
Sofia h isn't it easier just to take less classes
@@jcgw2 sometimes you need to take a certain amount of credits to get financial aid
My university had the same program! I taught a class on Fandom culture, using anthropology journal articles based on fandom and online communities as our readings. It was 1 hour credit to teach and to take. These courses were good at filling in that last hour to stay as a full time student when your other courses added up to weird numbers, or helped break up the stress of all your other courses. They also came with an oppotunity for students to learn how to teach a proper college course.
I also took an improv class, a class on Bollywood, and an ASL class this way; other classes I saw involved wine-tasting, beer brewing, the history and culture of Black hair and hairstyles, and Batman.
I was a language major, so I only needed two semesters of science. I took a course in the Astronomy department called "Extraterrestrial Life: Are We Alone in the Universe?", taught by an astrophysicist. A quarter of the students dropped after the first class, when it was revealed that it was going to be a deep dive into what exactly had to happen just right from the Big Bang onward for life to evolve and NOT about Area 51 and UFO sightings.
(I hung in there. It was fascinating, but completely useless, skill-wise. Spoiler: According to the Prof, we are almost certainly not alone, but we won't get proof in our lifetimes.)
Oh man! nobody saw that ending coming 😂.
That is actually an intetesting coarse. And yes, he is right
If you are a language major why do you have to study science?! It doesn't make any sense!! I have a chemistry major and I'm glad that I don't have to study literature and any other humanistic subjects! 'Cause I suck! Yeah I study at a European University
it's like clickbait for uni courses haha
@@noface____ yeah, I understand but it doesn't make any sense. I study chemistry as master degree in Italy but I don't have to study Italian literature, history and stuff like that, it's all about chemistry, you study math and physics in the bachelor degree(subjects which are related somehow to chemistry, but in the master degree you specialise even more) , and I have to pass an English exam because that's universal language but it's basic English not even literature, it's an exam to prove that I am able to speak to other people about science in English
En la Universidad Católica de Chile hay un curso llamado “Elección de pareja: en busca de un amor estable”... no comment 😂
Ignacio pero hay gente que si necesita eso lmao
Wish I’d seen that when I studied there. Would have saved me some heartbreak. Lmao
Ctm es vdd! Yo lo vi como electivo! Jajajaja... Pero no conozco a nadie que lo haya tomado
La U!!
P*ta q pariu
My university in Bogotá offers a class called "Religion According to THE SIMPSONS", but they also have an enology class so sure, you balance it out by getting wine-wasted in class :P
BellasLife El Rosario?
cuaaaal???
i would totally take the simpsons' class xD
Queeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?
jajajajajaja dinos en dónde por favor
I'm in college, and even though I don't take weird classes, my analytic geometry's professor said once: "saque ese triángulo asesino" in the middle of the class, just because was ranting about how teens are able to spot a killer on a videogame but they are not able to spot a triangle on an analytic geometry problem.
That's just dumb.
@@fernandobanda5734 I know XD
There's a class at my uni about medieval Magic 😂😂😂😂😂
Mine too :D
I'd take that class
Take that course, you end up becoming a sorcerer
That's a good class.
Are you studying at Hogwarts?
En la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid no se quedan solo con una asignatura... van a sacar una carrera para ser Influencer...
Ana Moreno del Castillo WHAT? De veras? ... Es verdad que un "influencer" no es más que la "cara" de una mini empresa de marketing y comunicación, pero de todos modos...what?!
Si... es triste pero cierto xD, no me imagino quienes serán los profesores y a saber que asignaturas van a dar para rellenar 4 años de carrera...
Noooooo jajajaja
En la Carlos III hay un grado que va de gestión de contenido multimedia. Pero vamos según lo que me han dicho es una manera de aprender a ser youtuber 🤣
Ay Dios!
La parte de como ponerse la camisa me recordó a un cuento de Julio Cortázar donde describe como ponerse un pullover, y habla de las mangas y de estar perdido en el azul del abrigo... #literature
Same! Leí ese cuento para analizarlo en una clase de Introducción a la teoría literaria 😂
Recuerdas el nombre de cuento ? Es uno de mis favoritos de Cortázar
Solo por dar información absurda, existía una clase electiva en mi universidad llamada "historias de amor en la Caracas de hoy" nadie entendía de que iba la materia y me quedé con el misterio de saber que era
jajaja
ahora me dejaste en duda a mi tambien..
Coño y en qué universidad? Quizá la tome y te saque de dudas jajajajaj
@@veronicaechenique6861 la UCAB xD mi bella alma mater
Marian T UCAB es lo fucking maximo. En com. social habia una electiva Cine del Mundo. Era a las 7am y la profesora tenia una fascinacion por el gore. Jamas olvidare una pelicula china en donde comian fetos humanos. Menos mal no habia desayunado, pero aun asi no lo cambio por nada, mi hermosa Vzla te llevo en mi corazon. Ucabista 100%.
I hope the class on getting dressed is about how to dress according to the occasion. Because , let me tell you, I see all kinds of innaproriate dress when kids come in for interviews. Y'all don't understand how to make a good impression. Jeans, t-shirts and flip flops are only good for lounging at home.
I hope so too. All you need to consider this a course worthy of living is the amount of TV shows trying to show how to get dress
Protocolo is very common
It's actually about the historical and modern-day significance of clothes as a marker of social abd cultural status.
I don't understand your college education system! IT MAKES NO SENSE! I'm British, at high school we study like 10/12 subjects, most people go to college (which is something most 16-18 year olds go to) where we pick 3/4 subjects to study and then some people go to uni to study 1 subject and they take classes within that field. It blows my mind that american's seem to major in psychology and they take classes in everything but psychology. How did you major in it when you take so many other courses in other departments? But seriously Joanna, We have a degree (3 years of your life on one subject) on the subject of GROWING GRASS! literally! This is for people who want to tend to football pitches at Man Utd etc. 3 YEARS ON EXCLUSIVELY STUDYING GRASS JOANNA!
Don't forget the Harry Potter module, golf course maintenance and many other stupid things
You'd appreciate that class if you had a house in the southern USA
American colleges require "general ed" since American primary/secondary schools don't teach very much.
I dont get it either. European education and American education are so different. Like the courses she's showcasing here are just examples,yet they are crazy. Here in Europe it's more classical, boring if you don't like it, but yeah I studied Law and everything was about law even the language classes
That is more confusing to me
UT Austin/UTSA has a class on Beyoncé!!!
UnofficialDrake Beyoncé is a goddess I’ll take that class any day of the week.
Hot Mess honestly same and it's a pretty popular class from what I hear. I think it's about Lemonade
Whooo Texas!!
Susana I. Gonzalez other states could never
i went to a presentation that i am pretty sure was by that prof from UTSA. all about Lemonade but it is fascinating because she dissected cultural and historical elements
OH and also pointed out how Beyonce is a genius for this work of art of course
Its a mystery to me why in american universities you go and take courses for years and then decide your major like what the hell. Why don’t you go straight from high school to law school or med school?
Paulina Florast I think it's a good idea though for people who are still not entirely sure on what to study. I mean you're able to try out more things than you've been exposed to since high school. But if you already know what you want to study then what you're saying makes more sense
Because most law and medical schools require an undergraduate degree in a related field. That is, you HAVE to go to college if you want to be a doctor or lawyer.
We have that here in Chile. After high school you go straight to the Uni, and that's it xD We do have a "college" that lasts 2 years, in case you don't know what to study, and after that you can also go to Uni :) I've always found the American system weird. xd
Just finishin' college today... Sad that i can totally relate
Congrats
@@dcmarvel3820 thanks! :)
No puedo con tanta inteligencia, haha love you joanna
There's a class at Georgia Tech during this Fall 2018 named "HAPPINESS for engineers". The syllabus says: "learn how to sustainably increase happiness, work more effectively with others, recognize which human needs are fundamental, appreciate cultural differences..." It made me laugh at first, but then I got scared about it. It'd be probably better to take some therapy sessions.
I didn't take any classes that
I deemed ridiculous like that,
of course I was in college in
the late nineties to early '00s…
A favorite class that comes to
mind was "Anthropology of
witchcraft and the occult" &
I took a class in "Holography"
both were absolutely fascinating!
It really sucks for me because I'm vaguely interested in poetry, literature, geology, anthropology, philosophy, algebraic math, astronomy, world civilizations, European history, geography and who knows what else. I like to learn; I'm a curious person. But I don't want to take the course and dedicate my life to it for four months. I'm a linguistics major why do I have to take CHEM 100? Why couldn't I have just done that in high school? And why is it so encouraged to go to a four-year?
wow you really channeled kim 10/10
as a european.... i'm so confused 😂
As someone from Central America, Me too.
You are not alone😄
I'm an American and I'm sad that i get it
As a brazilian, me too.
Colleges in the US force all students to take useless classes to make extra money of them.
Please never stop making videos, I swear this is what makes me happy and don't know what I would do without it
When I was studying anthropology, I take a course "Anthropology of the emotions" we review "the sadness", also we read a book of a russian writer, in the book the horse of the main character die and also his son. And we cried at the end of semester
Sou tão grata por esse canal existir
Tb
Aaa eu tambééém
oi, Brasil 🇧🇷💙
So, I just finished my third year studying Graphic Design. During the second semester, there was a course called "Environment and Design", which was supossed to be how to reduced the impact of some topics related to design (like printing and packaging design). At first I thought "Ok, this may be important", but then the whole semester the teacher was discussing about the history of our country (btw, I'm from Guatemala), the colonial times, how the upper clase do not allow the country to develop, and how to be a vegan. WHAT?!
I feel like the getting dressed one is about learning how to dress for different business occasions, like job interviews.
You could do so many parts to this including such difficult college courses (I kid you not) as Simpsons and Philosophy (as in Homer Simpson), Strategy of StarCraft, Underwater Basket Weaving, and the list goes on
NOOOOOOOOOOO Joanna you are NEVER a waste of time; procrastinating with you is like a meal with angels... if they were incredible stand up comedians
When I was a freshman, around 1975 (yeah, I know, my sons told me it was around the time of the dinosaurs), we had a spanish class which studied how Donald Duck and his nephews were a bad influence on latinamerican people, from the imperialist United States, showing us how to disrespect our elders (the way his nephews treated him), it was even in the textbook. Since I had to pass the course, I didn't say anything, I just agree with the teacher. But I though "It's just a fuc...g caricature"
OHMGOD are you serious?! HSAHAHAHAA
Really serious, it was stupid; but you couldn't do anything, it was the time of Pinochet, Somoza, etc.
Oh wow, I just read this article a couple days ago about "How to Read Donald Duck" in the Guardian. Is this what you were reading back then?
www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/05/ariel-dorfman-how-we-roasted-donald-duck-disney-agent-of-imperialism-chile-coup
Yes, we received a lot of chilean refugees at the time; so probably, our text book was influenced by it.
There is this course at my faculty which is called ‘The history of food’. It was amazing and very interesting. First lesson about bread, second lesson about wine... The best 3 credits ever earned!
Lesbian dance theory, 'nough said.
I would totally take that class, there's some serious science going on there.
When finishing high school, my friends and I would joke about just doing this course called “Jam-making” in a nearby university if all else fails.
Man, I thought some of my required general ed courses are a complete waste of time, but these schools take it to a whole new level offering these courses.
I took a research seminar called "arguments". It was about arguments as shown on stage versus filmed for movies, it did make sense...but that title, man.
Was The OC a good show? Yes. Is the OC course stupid? Absolutely. You don't need The OC in your life to be happy... it isn't Friends.
no .
iONLY liked it when Olivia Wilde was on it
"it made me a better writer, reader, thinker... drinker" yes
I went to engineering school and all of our courses where pretty technical: calculus, physics, thermodynamics etc.. so im pretty confused by all of these courses like really????
In my university you had to take a number of extracurricular classes and you had to pick from an specific list, there were some interesting and useful classes like "accounting for non-accountants" where I learned about personal finances and taxes, but also stupid classes like "conflict dealing" where we just hugged trees....
Brooo The O.C is sooo gooddd🤣🤣🤣
I love Joanna, but in my college at UT Austin, we have been getting more about the real world to the point right now my professor of Intro to China told us " I dont want you memorizing dates of Emperors or their names but I want you to understand how the past is influenced/marked present-day China socially and politically. The test is not multiple choice but open-response answers."
I feel like colleges are adapting to these changes and all the courses I have taken - even though I am a Pre-Med Chinese Language major- are SO USEFUL and interesting and I am loving it.
You are not a waist of time Joanna, you are awesome.
“Who is John Candy?” is the question my college experience did NOT answer. And I am livid. Thank you for reminding me, Joanna!!
this comment is late af and pertains to something only briefly mentioned in the video but ladino really is worth learning if you're sephardic and want to learn more about the language and migration of your ancestors or if you're interested in linguistics or mediterranean history
LAAADINO! A dead language Worth KNOOOWWWINNGG?
I think it's ladino.
Yes i would like to learn it since i know spanish and I'm learning Hebrew.
There is no Yiddish connection to Ladino. It's worth learning though. Talk to a Ladino speaking grandparent while they're still around.
I took a 3 credit camping class. That was an amazing time.
Like, I wish college had more course on adulting, entrepreneurship, and home economics.
Joanna, You have outdone yourself! You are always hilarious but this one is sidesplitting!!!
Tree climbing is a module on my countryside management course. For those in the environmental management sector who maybe fell trees, or even have to take samples of canopies, tree climbing is an important skill. Using rope work, and the proper equipment
okay but i would actually take that class about The O.C. cause i would get an A for sure 😂😂 Seth and Summer 4ever
THANK YOU
Omg yess!!!!
One of the coolest courses I took in college (albeit one that I totally didn't need to take) was called Reaction to the Past. Basically the entire course was a game in which we all received characters from a certain time in history (ours was immediately after Caesar's assassination) along with the respective character dossier that explained our motivations, alliances, enemies, etc. and we had to play out events as though we were those people. We were certainly allowed to deviate from what actually happened (or it wouldn't be a game) BUT we had to keep it realistic, and throughout the course we had small history essays to submit. It was so much fun.
I am spending my time in the internet, no wasting my time lol
also I love your videos
At my university, New Jersey city university we had a selfie class 😂 I took it as an elective. That class was nothing how it appeared to be but some truth to it. We talked about artists from all genres on how they pushed boundaries or what made them iconic and we had to incorporate their art style in our selfies. Got an A in that class 😂😂
Favourite one I saw when I was applying for University was in Wales, (University of Mid Glamorgan I think?) offering a BSc in Science and Science Fiction...
I love your videos. Whenever I see a new one uploaded it makes my day. 😄
i straight up took a course in my first year called "Life amung the Apes" I also took a beginner gymnastics class while alrady being a gymnast
As long as university is seen as a place for training rather than education, no matter how great a course or subject is, it will always be a waste of time.
In my college, Universidad de Concepción, there is a subject called "Hablando con las plantas" (Talking to the plants) 😂😂😂😂
So in Norway we can go to "Folkehøyskole" for one year where we can learn things like photography, Cosplay, cartoon drawing, and other silly things. Its basically a free year where you do something you enjoy. And more about self development than school. Then universities are more with normal classes
I'm an overseas Erasmus student from Spain at a University in Belgium, I took a course called Cross Cultural Communication, it was like talking about our cultures (as we were all international students), it was like being in bar but without having a beer hahaha
PD: Our means of evaluation was a 5min PowerPoint presentation :D
My brother started his higher education this quarter at Central Washington University. They have a required class for all incoming freshmen called "University 101." I strainght thought of that one night school episode of Community!
"Administration tributaria" is a class about taxes you get while studying business administration.
In Brazil there is a college called ITA, it's so hard to go through there and finish the course that they used to have (maybe still have) a course to help you to go back fo real life and socialize with people.
I’m shook, she overlooked Penn’s prestige!!
Even Cornell got a “Congratulations!”
Here in Spain, you cannot choose subjects that aren't in your degree syllabus. Well, in theory you could choose "free study credits", but since other degrees are taught in different buildings, and sometimes buildings are lot of kilometres away, or even in other cities, people normally never take them.
I would have liked to learn Far East languages when in college, but those were taught only at a different university 35 kilometres north. TOO BAD.
As a person who climbs trees for a living at times, let me say that If your in forestry or planning to become an arborist or utility tree trimmer then a course in tree climbing is useful...Why you may ask? Because lots of trees don't have low hanging branches or at times are more then a meter wide in diameter. Also it's useful to help you learn climbing and rigging knots and rope use so you don't fall out of said trees.
I'm a chemistry technician, and one of our obligatory classes (so something people thought was fundametal for a lab worker to be taught) was 'research methods' a class in which we were given a topic and we were supposed to go and google it - that was the whole class
I took a course that was literally titled "Stranger Things" (y'know, like THE ACTUAL SHOW) this past fall and all we did was watch 1 episode per week and analyze the fuck out of it with gothic literary theory. It was the best fucking class ever.
Ladino isn't really that dead...So yeah it makes sens that a pretentiuos guy would say that as well that it'll be a name of a useless course.
Joanna I love you , you literally make me laugh I'm over here at Walmart watching your video laughing probably looking crazy lol but you should do one on unnecessary highschool classes too
Hey Joanna,
I took a course named "Drinks and Drinking" -- our first class we reviewed what we would not be drinking in class including alcohol, or any starbucks product. Turns out our prof had a thing out for starbucks; naming their beverages "mammalian teet drinks to bring the single 40 year old bachelors back to their mothers."
I have also taken a class named "Sheep and other fun facts" , "Peasants Food", "Love and Hate". "What are Ten Days".
Tree climbing is important of you are getting to paid to prune those giant ones. Still even my wimpy university offered Dutch oven cooking, intro to blacksmithing, and archery - all of which I wish I would have time to take. Also this is actually useful : But offers Portuguese for Spanish speakers. Also I heard there are a couple of schools you can get a degree in tolkenolgy as in the author of Lord of the rings
love u so much, Joanna!!! Eres la mejor!!!
I have a course here at IIT called “Intro to the Profession” which is supposed to teach me basic ethical concerns and expectations within the field I wanna go into and fields like it, but it ought to be called “Question Everything That Comes Out of Your Mouth and Get Written Assignments You’ll Never Fucking Finish”
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I took a nice course at my University (First year of my Economics degree) "Aprender a subrayar" Basicamente era aprender hacer perfectas lineas rectas con diferentes marcadores... it was amazing, not it wasn't
At the University of Florida, all freshmen are required to take a class called "What is the Good Life?" I was in that class for an entire semester and never figured it out
Im so glad there were no weird courses at my university. First semesters where commom classes as statistics, philosopy and so (quite related to psychology) and then full psychology stuff; neuro, child development, psychometrics, hr, etc. And as far as i know, most universities here in mexico are like that. No weird side courses
Cornell also as a wine tasting class and for the final you have to try different types of wine and answer questions solely based on taste which is why everyone ends up failing LMAO.
I fraking loved THE OC Joanna so don't panic!!!!!!
I definitely took a bowling class in college, which is a solid foundational skillset for the workforce.
Brown has a course title Keeping up with "Keeping Up" and yes it is about the Kardashians
An uni in Poland offers something called "Roleplay in Japanese" as a class for choice. Seems dope to me, especially that it's in the Faculty Of Languages.
I have started computer engineering college this year in the Federal University of Itajubá, in Brazil. We don't have any weird courses, but we have a Robot Battle team, and a world champion robot which got banned from battling in Brazil because of the fact that it has a flamethrower attached to it.
At my state university (University of South Carolina) there is an entire course on Lady Gaga. I’m convinced some courses exist purely for people to have jobs and for universities to siphon more more from students.
JOANNA I LOVE YOU SO MUCH ❤❤❤
NEVER STOP BEING YOU ❤❤❤
QUEEEEEEN
STEM career master race. Tomorrow I start my "bio-inspired heuristic techniques in optimization" class. No joke, that is the real name of it.
I got a credit to go camping. It was in cabins and we had access to running water. We got to canoe, hike, do yoga. It was fantastic, but silly to earn credit for it.
I'm not at the University yet, but in my school i used to be part of the Reding book group, AND LITERALLY WE NEVER READ A BOOK AND WE NEVER DO A REUNION AND WE NEVER DO NOTHING!!!! This shit only happen in my school, sólo en mi país Panamá😂 te amo joanna💚
In my university there's a course called "the science of Iron Man" and in my cousin's there's "philosophy according to the Simpsons" (both top 5 universities in Colombia btw)
2 Classes at University Of Cincinnati that are a guaranteed "A" and everyone should have to take. 1. Business Writing - How to write negative business letters using only POSITIVE words. Try it, it's more challenging than you think. "Dear employee, we appreciate the talent and enthusiasm you have brought to our organization. We wish you much success as you pursue opportunities with other organizations. Jane in Human Resources is looking forward to collecting your laptop computer at 8:30. Good luck in your future endeavors. Best Regards, The Management". The Final Exam was 100 True/False questions that you could finish in 3 minutes if you were paying attention.......The other is Inside The Cincinnati Opera. They got 20 college student to go to the opera for 10 weeks and write a 1 page report. How many of you went to the Opera in college?
0:22 So, Havaianas is used just for that? That's a insult to Brazilians! Hahaha. Just kidding.. but it's kind of exotic. :)
MarcioNSantos actually I find havaianas are quality flip flops and this and excellent choice for those horrendous communal bathrooms. I wouldn’t use regular flip flops because I’d run the case of they getting well and musty and moldy and yuck... lol
One of my favorite classes that I've taken thus far was not an absurd class, but the pun is a bit forced: Divercities. It actually was a fascinating exploration of diversity of identities in the history of American cities.
I’m going to school to be a biology teacher. I have to take a fitness assessment class *cue PACER test* and an elective athletic class. One class is called Walking
First of all UABC is the public State-sponsored university in Baja California. And has a system that you can take any class form any faculty in the state to get credits.
So aside the engineering faculty (where i study) there is an arts faculty where a lot of classmates take clases because the entre university is full of weebs.
There are courses going form manga drawing and voice dubbing (fair enough) but the one that takes the cake is called "Análisis estético y sociocultural del anime" (AESTHETIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL ANALYSIS OF ANIME).
In a nutshell, that courses prepares you to become in an anime reviewer and i shit you not: you get more credits taking a clases where you watch and review seasonal anime than taking a mandatory calculus courses.
Georgia Tech had an international affairs course called something like "Wizards and Wookies: Great Power Relations in Film," which, sadly, I had to drop for a real class.
I went to Shenandoah University in Virginia and they offer about 20 ridiculously fresbman seminars that you have to take 1 of during your first semester as a freshman and I was in one called "what's the issue with a little skin tissue?" referring to mmmm foreskin
Bless everyone who sneezed today 🙏🏽
jus sneezed 2x thx
I just sneezed before reading this! Haha.
I did a single semester of art school and like to use it whenever someone's feeling shitty about themselves. Because nothing makes a person feel more accomplished than being compared to an art school dropout. Truly.