If you could take a college class over the summer for free..

[candreco]

Comparative religion, anthropology, psychology. Maybe photography or a language (if it was a conversational class).

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

I think I would pick Italian, personally. Which one would be better for you career-wise? Aren't a lot of...art history...things...Italian?

*ducks a textbook*

[rupertpenny]

Language or pottery.

Also, I agree with the people who said online classes are not fun.

[TemperanceBrennan]

Right now, I would be taking one of the classes that I need to finish my certificate (graphics classes like photoshop/web graphics). But, I think that I would also like to take a marketing class or another podcasting class. The first one I took was a lot of fun!

[luckyval]

Philosophy or sociology

Or if there's a specific vocational class, like web design, culinary or photograhy

[Dumbledork]

I really want to take an intro to ASL class. I've been trying to do it for three semesters, but it never fits in my schedule. I also really want to take a couple art classes, photography or pottery.

[Deleted]

ART HISTORY.

My love of loves. Probably the renaissance in Northern Europe. I'm a sucker for religious art.

[Deleted]

Also @professorartnerd did you go straight from undergrad to grad school? I've often contemplated going back.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

May 7, 2013 20:29:43 GMT -5 @amoosed said:

Also @professorartnerd did you go straight from undergrad to grad school? I've often contemplated going back.

I had one year off, but I spent half of it making up some holes in my courses. I was a painting major, art history minor so I didn't have survey I, for instance.

Are you interested in teaching? Oooh, we can talk!

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Ironic, because this is what I teach most now. Lol

[Deleted]

I used to dislike the thought of teaching but since the likelihood of getting a curatorial position is slim to none, I've been reconsidering.

There's a masters program that meets nights & weekends so it's something I've been considering for the past few years (since I graduated basically).

If I start harassing don't worry!

[tdk2]

Yes!

(I thought the q would be, would I take one?) I'm a dork and love classes.

Either art to get back into drawing and painting (and to force myself to do it!) or photography, or a photoshop class or something art related.

For you - since you're an art historian, you'd prob love a history class. Not an art history one. You'd just have to critique their style and your style the whollllle time. I have this weirdo desire to drool over your course catalog. I love classes.

OH! See if you have a Raku pottery class? I took one during a summer at a community college, it it ROCKED! We used metals to develop our own glazes, dug and refined our clay, made some pots (mine were kind of crappy, but it was more about the process), and then did the raku firing out in the professor's yard. It was SO cool. Do you have any neat random ones like that? It felt like sometimes the random teachers came out of the woodwork for the summer courses.

[pantsparty]

Oooh, I loved film studies! If you haven't taken it, that should be your pick!

[ProfessorArtNerd]

We do have some very specifically themed workshops for a week or two, only problem is that they tend to meet during the time in teaching. My office mate is teaching bookmaking- I'd love that!

[jacquie]

Honestly, none. But this is coming from a woman who just graduated last week

There is a Gaelic language class being offered which sounds interesting. That would likely be the only class I would even remotely consider at this point.

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May 7, 2013 21:10:36 GMT -5 ProfessorArtNerd said:

We do have some very specifically themed workshops for a week or two, only problem is that they tend to meet during the time in teaching. My office mate is teaching bookmaking- I'd love that!

I took a bookmaking class on college-- it was awesome! It was a combo studio/art history class so it was great to learn the history of the book while we were creating them.

[ndolehan]

History!

Or a sommelier class, at least something similar to a sommelier class. If it was offered.

ETA: I took a French Film course in college and it was awesome.

[saraandmichael]

I loved my microbiology class last summer. It was hard as hell, but so effing applicable.

I have also really loved both anatomy and physiology classes.

I would probably also like a government class.

[okla]

History of the Reformation.

I actually was just looking at the local university's class offerings the other day to see if I could audit a class. Now is soooo not the time, but I'd love to get a second master's or a PhD in English History.

[Deleted]

Some sort of biology or anatomy class. I think that makes me strange.

[tdk2]

May 7, 2013 21:50:28 GMT -5 @wonderred said:

Some sort of biology or anatomy class. I think that makes me strange.

I don't think it does.
There are a lot of us science lovers on here.
However, I was a biochem major, so anything I'd take to further my education in that direction would be less fun, more work since it'd be a fairly intense course where I'd need to remember all my undergrad.  I often consider these, but then realize I'd have to work too much.  (or that I should be working towards another degree if I did.)

I prefer to pick fun classes in fields I don't know as well.  And don't need to feel too intense about. I also don't want to get tempted to start another degree at the moment.

However, something like an intro to marine biology or an intro to a lot of different science fields would be very interesting and perhaps not too taxing.  Botany was awesome, and i only had a few classes in that.

OH!  PAN - do you like gardening?  There are often master gardening programs.  I'd be interested in those, too.   Ahh, I could go nuts over just about any class, who am I kidding.  School nerd.

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May 7, 2013 22:27:29 GMT -5 tdk2 said:

May 7, 2013 21:50:28 GMT -5 @wonderred said:

Some sort of biology or anatomy class. I think that makes me strange.

I don't think it does.
There are a lot of us science lovers on here.
However, I was a biochem major, so anything I'd take to further my education in that direction would be less fun, more work since it'd be a fairly intense course where I'd need to remember all my undergrad.  I often consider these, but then realize I'd have to work too much.  (or that I should be working towards another degree if I did.)

I prefer to pick fun classes in fields I don't know as well.  And don't need to feel too intense about. I also don't want to get tempted to start another degree at the moment.

However, something like an intro to marine biology or an intro to a lot of different science fields would be very interesting and perhaps not too taxing.  Botany was awesome, and i only had a few classes in that.

OH!  PAN - do you like gardening?  There are often master gardening programs.  I'd be interested in those, too.   Ahh, I could go nuts over just about any class, who am I kidding.  School nerd.

If I were to quit lawyering, which I fantasize about regularly, I'd want to go into medical imaging, preferably brain stuff. I wanted to go to med school and be a neurologist but I absolutely could not do the math. 

[Deleted]

Some type of chemistry lab. I miss the lab sometimes.

[emjacobs]

I would go with science or math, but I'm a nerd

[sunny]

dance!

[nursewife]

Likely a class in OR nursing or anatomy. I think I would do so much better in those types of classes since working my current job. Before knowing the names of bones and what not seemed kind of pointless now I really love learning more about the human body and how it works.

[Waffles]

I don't feel like putting effort into proper learning othrewise I'd say a language class.

So, something lit/film oriented maybe? The sort of class you passively hear about interesting things without having to study/work.

[underwaterrhymes]

Photography or Spanish

[Deleted]

I would take a literature or art class.

[spitforspat]

I took a History of Pop Music class once. I thought it was going to be totally fluffy, but it turned out to be one of my favorite classes. I also loved any type of criminology/juvenile delinquency class.