Sometimes it feels like you have your life together because you’re in school and doing the best that you can…other days you realize that you truly don’t know what the heck you’re doing and just love college (Asher Roth, we feel you). It can be hard to know if you’ve chosen the right major or if you even like your class schedule at all, honestly…major stress overload. But on the flip side, USC offers a creative variety of classes that can distract you from the dark and impending doom that they call ‘graduation.’ So for our fellow indecisive gamecocks, here’s a shortened list of some of the craziest classes you can take at USC:
1. ANTH 362 – Forensics of Sherlock Holmes
An anthropology class where you get to study the technique of Sherlock Holmes? We would make it to this class even if it was an 8:30 am.
2. HRTM 575 – Advanced Topics in Wine
The only thing that can make wine better is advanced wine. Actually, can you teach this class?
3. HPEB 512 – Southern Discomfort: Public Health in the American South
Really we just thought this was a nice play on words… but who wouldn’t want to take a class with a punny professor?
4. HIST 442 – The Old South
Any northerner would take this class out of curiosity.
5. JOUR 428 – Super Bowl Commercials
Do we need to take this course? No. Do we want to sit in class all day talking about our favorite Super Bowl commercials? Yes.
6. ANTH 214 – Drinking in Culture: Anthropology of Alcohol
So if we show up late every Friday morning does that count as research on this topic?
7. ARTS 530 – Drawing Capstone I
In each class meeting we walk across campus to draw Capstone? This fits my major perfects.
8. GERM 290 – Viking Mythology
It was a close choice between GERM 270 – Knights and Ladies and this, but the only thing better than knights are vikings.
9. HIST 308 – Magic and Witchcraft in Europe, c. 1200-1700
After this one we’ll go back to our regular classes because we’ll know how to succeed… by using witchcraft to change all our grades to A’s of course.
So there you have it, our newest and bestest (dream) class schedule. Stay tuned ’til next semester when these are the only classes you end up taking take… for sure, you’ll definitely be that well rounded student colleges are always preachin’ about.