Favourite module you studied

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At university what did you study that you absolutely loved?

Really helpful thread - thanks OP. My 16 year old has no clue what she wants to do with her life but I think is leaning towards sociology type subjects. I will show her these comments.

First degree: philosophical issues in music.

Masters: cultural/historical issues in psychotherapy and counselling; cognitive psychology

Middle English ballads: I can still sing some of them nearly 40 years later.

We did do a module once for linguistics that was about analysing courtroom scripts - that was fun. At the time the Oscar Pistorius trial was going on (about 2012/13ish I think), so each week we sat with a load of transcripts and had to decide why certain things were said - the way they asked questions for example, there was never just a simple question, everything was leading somewhere. Similar with answers - number and length of pauses, repetitions, errors, word choice, bizarre features such as odd inflections or accent shift, use of filler (e.g. er, um, ah, well), etc.

It’s not something most people have ever heard of - linguistics in general - but it’s so interesting and useful to so many different careers.