Most difficult non-BCMP course(s)?

[Krypton36]

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Question is in the title.

 

[VTBuc]

Human Sexuality. I took that class and I still have no idea what this daggone thing dangling between my legs is for. 🙁

 

[NightSwim]

This is way too person and school specific. No one course jumps out at me as a univerisally difficult class, besides orgo, which is BCMP.

 

[Iapyx]

This is way too person and school specific. No one course jumps out at me as a univerisally difficult class, besides orgo, which is BCMP.

Agreed.

 

[Evergrey]

This is way too person and school specific. No one course jumps out at me as a univerisally difficult class, besides orgo, which is BCMP.

Yeah part of the problem, I think, is that a lot of non-science majors don't have the kind of rigid curriculum that science majors do. You will find an Organic Chemistry course at 100% of decent colleges, but that might not be the case of a class on Homi Bhabha (whose books suck to read).

Apparently he received a reward for bad writing, even.

 

[lorenzomicron]

Creative Nonfiction.
Hands down.
No idea of what this class is about, even after finishing it.
And, whatever you write will be considered terrible.

Also, Analog and Digital Circuits.
Pretty difficult.

 

[surftheiop]

Any Engineering Class

 

[muhali3]

Upper Level Engineering and Computer Science classes. Much harder than Bio/Chem.

 

[YoungGregory]

Upper Level Engineering and Computer Science classes. Much harder than Bio/Chem.

These. I haven't had an non science class that has challenged me in college.. so far lol

 

[Danlee07]

Comp Sci.......and accounting

 

[samuraiR]

advanced optimization theory😱

the hell was I thinking

 

[tjquinn]

I would have to say the most difficult non-science course I have taken would be Intermediate Logic (A philosophy course). Oh how I love to prove that there are at least two degrees of infinity

 

[libraryismyhome]

social problems for me Exams were ridiculous and they couldn't be prepared by just memorizing, understanding and applying. I had to be able to read the mind of the professor.

 

[UNMorBUST]

Technical writing. Why did i take it? I didn't need to learn how to write recommendation reports and instruction manuals.

 

[missbones]

Human skeletal analysis.
(currently enrolled)

 

[chman]

Any subjective class that involves a lot of papers and the professor's view differs from yours.

 

[Narmerguy]

Any subjective class that involves a lot of papers and the professor's view differs from yours.

👍

 

[IH8ColdWeath3r]

Anything Engineering

I think this counts as chem but its call # is ridiculous
Advanced Assymetric Synthesis
Organometallics

^yes, they offer a class just on organometallic and gringard reagents at my school

 

[Hirudo]

Intro to Art, mainly because my TA despised every scrap of art I tried to make as if it had murdered her entire family and beloved dog. I still to this day can't understand how someone can HATE a painting of a horse.

 

[docelh]

Chinese for non-Asian people
Classes with tough curves - e.g., engineering.
Classes with frequent assignments - e.g., composition, language,
Classes with too much reading based on pseudo-scientific b.s. - e.g., econ, poli sci
Classes arbitrarily graded - e.g., humanities
Classes with too many smart ubernerds - e.g., Ivy League, MIT, CalTech

 

[phonyreal98]

The toughest non-prereq class for me so far has been Analytical Chemistry. That's what I get for taking it with the guy who practically invented capillary electrophoresis, I guess. Great at teaching the material, but his final exam was intense.

The toughest non-BCPM course I've taken has probably been abnormal psychology. The class I took not only examined causes and symptoms of different psychopathologies, but examined how they affect people who are affected by these psychopathologies and how it affects their life (ie family, friends, stigmas, et cetera). The exams were all application of concepts that we learned regarding abnormal psychology, but the big final project in the class that was supposed to bring everything full circle for us was a project where we had to characterize, as best we could, what it was like to be a person living with a certain psychopathology.

Music theory was also pretty tough, but I enjoyed it.

 

[Dianyla]

Chinese for non-Asian people

C'mon. Asian people do not have any biologically based advantage to being able to learn the various Asian languages which are character & tonal based. Someone who has a lot of exposure to this because of growing up in a country or home where Asian languages are spoken, maybe, but that has nothing to do with their ethnicity. This would be analogous to someone from California or Texas having a slight advantage for learning Spanish after having grown up hearing/seeing a lot of it around.

That being said, I'll agree that it's pretty damn hard. I took first year chinese the same year I took organic chemistry. It was fun, and I don't regret it, but that C+ is a GPA stain that'll never go away! What was I thinking?! 😱

 

[loveoforganic]

Anything Engineering

I think this counts as chem but its call # is ridiculous
Advanced Assymetric Synthesis
Organometallics

^yes, they offer a class just on organometallic and gringard reagents at my school

Organometallic chem is a whole field, why wouldn't they?

 

[Iapyx]

I am in a classical art and archeology course right now, and it is the most difficult course I have ever taken. The final covers 1500 years of art and has no multiple choice. I have to be prepared to identify and write a 1-2 page essay on over 150 pieces of art, (obviously only a handful will actually be tested on). The fact that some works are so similar makes it all the more difficult.. At least the material is good🙂

 

[FutureDoc01]

I'm not sure about hardest, but Short Story in Context was defiantly the most annoying. 1.5 hours/2days a week of a Harvard trained PhD going line by line at her podium. I thought I just might die.

 

[dreamcrusher]

Advanced macro economics. That class was simply WEIRD.