So basically I started this thread because I am unsure of all the courses I am going to be taking next year and I was wondering what fellow Totseans are taking or have taken.

What was your favourite/ most informing course you've taken?

Mine would be a first year philosophy Critical Thinking course. We learned everything from propositional logic to common fallacies and even statistics and sampling. The professor was also very down to earth for a philosophy guy which might have been a major reason why I loved the course so much.

Sounds like a good one.. I took a course called "strategic studies" Political Science 350.. very excellent class taught by a dude who knows a shitload about the state of international security, having been a nuclear arms negotiator for the SALT treaty in the early 70's..

topics like how various nations choose to further their national interest.. and the different ways in which governments and people determine their national interest, then decide in what ways to act on it..

we read machiavelli's art of war which largely influenced the creation of modern national armies; read thucycides' history of the peloponesian war, read some about the various american thinkers like George Kennan on the strategy of nuclear war and how our nation squared off with the soviet union and for 50+ years had a government willing and able to destroy the entire world.. excellent thought provoking discussions, texts, and the class was small with only 10 students.

Probably a high school class actually. AP European History. I had a great teacher that really helped me refine my writing and how to use and present facts.

In college, maybe Organic Chemistry. My course only scratched the surface, yet it was amazing to me the depth of the field. It's incredible really.

for me, it was History Extension in highschool

basically its historiography and we learned to understand the reasoning behind different opinions by analysis of context, background etc

it set me up to think more critically about sources. overall very helpful, even though the course in university now has got nothing to do with it

psychology 110 (intro)

I had never taken a psych class in high school, so I decided to take it first semester of freshman year at college. What an eye opener! At first, I thought, "Wow, this is gay that people bothered to break down stuff that everyone knows..." and the class was not easy (snotty psych teachers design their tests to really prove students know everything they need to, annoying but worth it). Since that semester, I have noticed psych principles in every class I take, everyone who talks about their problems, and even in my own thoughts. Basic psych is just a very "college" class, not really necessary to know, but definitely "higher education." If you get a good teacher, intro psych can truly change your life forever

Information Systems was quite the entertaining class. An Iraqi professor who taught us that 2+2=5.

It was completely worthwhile. Maybe.

Electricity and magnetism taught me a lot about how the world works. It was one of the toughest, but most enjoyable classes I've ever taken. It cost me about 30 hours a week of study time, but I was motivated to get through it. I guess I just had a really good professor.

Barely made it out with a C though.

Abstract Algebra. I liked how it starts from such simple and fundamental notions but is able to describe so many complex topics. I would've liked it even more but the professor was really bad and didn't convey to us any of really fascinating parts of the subject, I had to learn a lot of it on my own to appreciate it all.

Psychology I and Philosophy I were by far the most interesting courses I've taken so far.

I think it was mainly because of the professors. Both were witty and down to earth, and evidently had been teaching for a while.
My philosophy course was basically an overview of the history of philosophy so far; the class covered different stances on government, god, individuality, knowledge, etc and the reading consisted of excerpts ( Hume, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Plato, Locke, Goulde, Descartes, Tocqueville, Marx...to name a few that I remembered ).
My psych course was just introductory psychology stuff -- memory, dreams, learning, sexuality, development, psychopathologies, etc. Most of it I'd encountered already through independent reading, but the professor was possibly the most amazing person I've ever met. She tended to go off subject a lot and discuss various things at length; at one point she even started out on a whole tirade about how to use psychology to evade police tickets and talk your way out of trouble.
Maybe that's why I liked the course so much...It's amazing how much an instructor can make ( or ruin ) a class.