Favourite module you studied

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At university what did you study that you absolutely loved?

Apoptosis ( programmed cell death ) in cell and molecular biology. Fascinating

Sociology of disability, completely changed my attitude to disability and influenced the path my career has taken.

International Perspectives on Outdoor Recreation - I got to visit different activity centres and take part in different activities overseas looking at the management of them and the benefits and disadvantages of them on the local people and environment.

Total mickey mouse degree but actually has stood me in good stead for all the roles I've had since and also was a great background for the OU Environmental Sciences degree I did more recently.

A Gender and Writing module that was so revolutionary and exciting and brilliantly-taught that I looked forward to it all week and was always happy it was Tuesday.

Criminology

Children's literature

Roman Women in 22 objects. Was absolutely fascinating. But then my work centres around the hidden voices of women

African literature

Collective psychology (basically the psychology of crowds). The lecturer used to conduct his research by going to riots...

Cultural Anthropology, when I was studying Tourism Business Management. My essay was about how Tourism is the new Colonialism especially taking advantage of natives abroad, such as aborigines in Australia.
Looking at you Tjapukai.

We had to do 4 from our own department each semester then 2 from just about anywhere within the university.

I did 2 modules of German (up to GCSE within a year). I wish I had done more as I would have reached A level standard before leaving Uni.

2 modules of Art History. I loved that and it helps me answer University Challenge questions now!

Also did one Anthropology module which I can remember well now, decades later.

It seemed every department was much better organised than ours...

One of our sociology lecturers used to illustrate the bystander effect annually by pretending to collapse and have either a heart attack or a fit of some kind mid-lecture, and see how long it took anyone in a full 300-seater lecture theatre to do something.

for a politics course I had a module on all things polling which I loved, how to interpret, question bias etc

Mine was environment economics. Loved it

Propositional logic

The Punic Wars.

Science; concepts and practice.

A little bit of physics, chemistry, biology, atmospheric chemistry, geology, meteorology, quantum mechanics, maths, statistics.

Absolutely loved it. Highlights included using data on global leaf cover collected by a satellite and calculating the kinetic and gravitational potential energy of planets orbiting the sun. 😁

Employment law as an option on an Economics course. I was fascinated by it.
I also loved Statistics.

Mathematical biology

That sounds interesting, what degree was that part of?

It was part of a Social Policy degree, the module (although it's many years since I took it) is here

The history of prisons and punishment. Fundamentally changed my views on incarceration and opened my eyes to the horrors of transportation and the genocide of Indigenous Tasmanians.

Northern Ireland and the British State. We all fancied the tutor (he was an amazing tutor too) and went on an amazing field trip to NI for a week which was basically one big piss up.

Issues in Phonological Theory.

I love phonology.

Metallurgy. Wished I had done it for my degree instead of chemistry.