If you want to gain a edge over your course mates then you should consider taking classes that are easy to pass. At Washing University in St. Louis, there’s just the perfect set of courses that can help you transition from class to class, effortlessly. Ensure you take a look at this list if you’re ever looking for a GPA boost.
1. L29 Dance 106E – Introduction to Dance as a Contemporary Art
Introduction to dance as a creative art form. Through practical work in the studio, students gain an understanding of the human body as an instrument of expression and of motion as the medium of dance. Technique, analysis, and creative work. Not open to majors. May be repeated once for credit.
2. L15 Drama 212E – Introduction to Theater Production
An introductory study of the major elements involved with mounting a theatrical production. Utilizing guest speakers in both theater arts and theater studies, the course addresses such topics as scenic, costume, lighting and sound design; production management and procedures; and the history and culture of theatrical space and design. Students are required to serve as a crew member on one departmental production in the Performing Arts Department.
3. L13 Writing 221 – Fiction Writing 1
A course designed to introduce students to the fundamental craft elements involved in writing fiction. This course counts toward the Creative Writing Concentration.
4. L48 Anthro 3103 – Topics in Anthropology: Environmental Inequality: Toxicity, Health, and Justice
How are the problems of environmental stress, pollution, and degradation unevenly borne? Adopting cross-cultural, biosocial, intersectional, and posthumanist approaches, this course explores how exposures to environmental toxicities and dangers result in and exacerbate health harms, social disparities, and structural violence. A range of historical and contemporary case studies will include plagues, weather, fire, water, waste, minerals, air, etc. Students will not only gain an understanding of these problems and burdens, but also explore the transformative potential in intertwining environmental justice, critical global health, and social justice movements to seek solutions to these vital issues.
5. L48 Anthro 3181 – Humans and Animals
This course uses anthropological and evolutionary data to tell the story of how changing human-animal relations influenced humans over the long term. In this course we explore the history of western conceptual divisions between humans and animals, which contrast with more fluid boundaries in other regions. Subsequent lectures focus on hunting and symbolic relations with wild animals through time, relying on ancient animal bones, ancient art and texts. Current and future human-animal relationships will also be discussed. The goal of this course is to provide an overview of ways that animals have influenced human life in the 21st century. Changing environments and animal behavior form the backdrop to cultural discussions.
6. L43 GeSt 243 – Designing a Meaningful Life: Tools and Practices to Build Your Way Forward
In this course students will use the mindset of a designer to imagine and build their way forward in life. Design thinking is a human-centered, hands-on, collaborative approach to problem solving and innovation through prototype iteration that lends itself especially well to tackling some of life’s big decisions. The course offers a framework, tools and practices, and a community of peers for students to develop a constructive, effective approach to choosing professional pathways, finding fulfilling careers, and leading meaningful lives.
7. L59 CWP 114 – College Writing: Writing Identity
What defines who we are and who we may become? How do class, gender, race, sexuality, and other social forces shape our identities? In what ways are our identities inherent or constructed, claimed or ascribed? In this course, we explore these and similar questions through the work of creative and critical writers, artists, and thinkers. We study key concepts such as double consciousness, intersectionality, and performativity. We consider how social dynamics, power, and privilege affect the language we use and the lives we live. All along, through writing and research assignments and class discussions, we examine and interpret visual, literary, and critical texts in an effort to define, together, what identity is and why it matters.
8. I60 BEYOND 161 – Morality and Markets
What does it look like to live a moral life in today’s market system? We know all too well what it doesn’t look like. The news is filled with moral failures of leaders and executives at top firms. We like to believe that we would behave differently, but what kind of pressures inform our moral choices? What pulls us, what pushes us, and what persuades us to act one way rather than another? These are the questions that a course combining business and literature can open in unique ways, for the world of fiction helps open the ethical dilemmas of the market we inhabit every day. In the following course, we use great books, classics of film and modern television, and the tools of modern psychology and business strategy to think critically about what is entailed in living a moral life in the midst of the modern market.
9. U82 CIM 3271 – Audio Storytelling: From Podcasts to Newscasts
This course applies principles and techniques of audio storytelling, podcasting and broadcast journalism with an eye toward future trends, including live podcasting. No longer a niche side project for journalists, podcasting has become a nearly $1 billion industry and is muscling into mainstream culture with smart and funny personalities who keep listeners coming back for more. This course will focus on how to develop ideas for podcasts, how to write stories (and news) for the ear, how to book guests, tricks for making a podcast listenable, skills required for effective interviewing, and the production and editing of high-quality audio. At the conclusion of this course, you will know what it takes to produce a podcast.
10. U82 CIM 346 – Shoot, Cut, and Upload: Create Media Like a Pro
A strong video story can change minds and behavior, but viral video can tank a political campaign, make a honey badger a superstar, or turn an ordinary product into a hot seller. Video is central to the success of companies, movements, and leaders. The only thing worse than not making video content for a website is making it badly. This course will cover the latest video trends, including GoPro, drone, time-lapse, stop-motion, and GIF production. We will use all devices available to learn how to shoot to thrill, edit to grab attention, and publish for the masses.
