Favourite module you studied

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At university what did you study that you absolutely loved?

Critical and Creative Reasoning. It was a philosophy unit, and a pre-cursor to Logic. My degree was science/health, but what I learnt in that course completely reshaped the way I thought about things.

Social psychology- groups, bystander effect, phenomenology, attitudes & behaviours, psychoanalysis.

Child development- all parents should do this!

American history- I had no idea how bloody their civil war was.

Ethics

Biological Anthropology and Paleoarchaeology were my two favourites.

Scottish Gaelic 1...intensive course for 1 academic year. Dropped it to concentrate on French and German. 36 years later I've taken it up again.

I'm a lecturer. You'd never get away with this now. We would get pulled up on ethics when the student reps complained of being triggered and you'd probably be fired.

Parasitology - fascinating stuff. Ended up doing my final year dissertation project on it.

International Humanitarian Law.

Subatomic Physics
Depositional Environments
Dam Engineering

(Joint Honours Physics and Geology; MSc Geotechnical Engineering)

Anatomy and physiology.

Greek and Roman Civilisation. Still mad about it. Watch out Mary Beard!

I didn't take it as a degree subject in the end, which is probably why I still love it...

The age of FD Roosevelt

Health psychology- the stuff on how hard it is to change people's smoking, drinking and other health behaviours, even if they want to change! Start of my career.

Engineering drawing. University insisted we had to learn to do it by hand before any CAD courses. I actually managed to learn to draw recognisable things... I failed art every year at school.

This should be a compulsory course in schools as it is so important for everyone these days.

As a lecturer, this is a wonderful thread. Always makes me want to study again when I read this kind of thing. Keep it coming.

I had an amazing Lecturer in art history on my art foundation course. It was like some great mystery to be unravelled. I ended up doing fine art and art history was still a huge love through my practical course. I'm old so can't remember the names of modules. I'm not sure my course was modular tbh. God I must be ancient.

Wow this sounds fascinating

Darwin, Marx, Freud

Really interesting and varied

Spirituality, Health & Healing - it was an honours (3rd or 4th year) Theology course which was also open to 5th year Medics and 4th year Nursing students. It was taught by a theology lecturer who had a background in psychiatric nursing. Absolutely fascinating and one which has stayed with me for the last 25 odd years.

Archaeology of Scotland. Remember one quote "hunter gatherers keep bankers' hours - they only have to work about 20 hours a week".
Went on a dig on the back of it (but in France, the weather was a lot better!)

Geometry and Group Theory was my favourite module (maths degree)

Marketing. Very pedestrian compared to all the above! It informed a very enjoyable career, and I'm still fascinated by the arts & sciences involved in selling stuff to make people happy.

As an undergrad - Data Modelling and Databases (interesting and professionally very useful)

During my MA - Theory of Warfare (didn't expect to like this one but it was a demanding course and made me think quite hard about the current conflicts as well as historical ones).

I’m a SALT, I love a bit of phonetics 😁

My favourite was my first degree (English and linguistics) - in my last year did a module called literature and medicine - it was a bit ‘experimental’, they were offering it to medical students but then decided to offer it to English undergrads as well.

Did a week on a particular book or poem that covered some sort of illness - there are a surprising number, a lot of psychiatric!!

I now work full time in forensic psychiatry so it obviously made an impression!

The board, ethics and governance (one module). Part of a MSc. It was particularly interesting because I focused it on my workplace at the time which was a political maelstrom of poor ethics and conduct.

The more I researched, the more I could apply to my workplace. It was 👀. I think that was the module where I realised that whatever you thought of, someone had already thought of it and written about/researched it.

It was that module alone that made me do a PhD.