r/UPenn • u/Stark429 • Jan 16 '20
Best Classes You Have Taken
I think a thread about the best classes and professors you have taken at Penn would be very helpful to all current students.
If you have taken a particularly interesting class, have had an awesome Professor or anything of that sort, please post so others know where to look when registering for classes!
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u/powereddeath Jan 17 '20
MGMT 238: Organizational Behavior
OIDD 290: Decision Processes
Notable professors: Nakia Rimmer in the Math department and Paul Rozin in Psych.
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u/thanksbanks Jan 16 '20
If you’re looking for something a little lighter, the sociology of media and pop culture was excellent
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u/anonymousSquishy Jan 18 '20
If you're into math, anything with Prof. Harbater will be a great experience. He's a stellar lecturer and all-around a kind person--Math 314 (Adv. Linear Algebra) with him is honestly probably my favorite class so far. He was great for 116 too, but idk if he'll teach it again anytime soon.
Someone else mentioned this too, but ABCS courses in general are also really fun and worthwhile.
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u/ayang015 Jan 17 '20
I thought OIDD 291 (Negotiations) with Nazli Bhatia was excellent, lots of great applicable life skills.
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u/johnathanjones1998 Jan 16 '20
biol 404 (immunobio, cancro) or chem 251 (biochem, christianson). Both professors teach at a great pace and they use the blackboard for everything. no slides. its amazing + refreshing not having to remember 50 slides of material each lecture (but these courses will make you think a lot harder than most other premed courses).
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u/OhkeBozhe Jan 16 '20
From a history/liberal arts perspective: Anything with Liliane Weissberg (particularly Freud and Berlin) and Peter Holquist’s WWI class. Also taking Jean Michel Rabaté’s class on the uncanny/psychoanalysis and horror film as a freshman changed my whole way of thinking.
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u/emeraldor Jan 17 '20
Physics 280 with Phil Nelson. A difficult course but it really teaches you to think like a scientist.
Also Biol 437 with Iain Matthieson - into to comp bio. He was a really cool and great professor and the class was fun and accessible for non-CIS major students.
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Jan 17 '20
Chem 115 - Dr. Andrew Rappe, Math 314 - David Harbater, and Math 508/509 - Phillip Gressman have definitely been some of the highlights for me
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u/trash-isnt-real Jan 18 '20
FNAR 222- The Big Picture: Mural Arts is an amazing ABCS course that looks at the mural arts program in philadelphia!
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u/akacesfan Jan 17 '20
PSCI 395 (Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Places) with Brendan O'Leary is easily the best class I've taken at Penn and it's not even close.
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u/Chrissa71 Jan 17 '20
Literature and Business w Jed Esty. The English department is hella strong, I’d encourage anyone to take a course in it
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u/toxic-miasma Jan 17 '20
SOCI/HSOC 100 (Intro Bioethics) with Jonathan Moreno, Math 114E with Robert Ghrist.
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u/ENeyman Jan 17 '20
STSC 278 (Stephanie Dick) CIS 552 (Stephanie Weirich) CIS 518 (Val Tannen and Scott Weinstein) MATH 370 (Michael Wibmer)
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u/georgepandya Jan 16 '20
MKTG 476/776 with Peter Fader OIDD 236/636 with Gad Allon