Computer Applications for technical Professionals... It really is as painful as it sounds... its just word, and excel... every friday, 9 am to 1pm... i hate fridays now.

Art and craft...the teacher was a witch.

Phys 25/26 at UMR
Its required for geology majors, yet what that class really is is electrical and magnetic physics with a little bit of optical thrown in for the hell of it.
I'm going ot be looking at rocks and cleaning up waste spills, not designing electrical and magnetic things.

I would have to go with Keyboarding as well.
The second half of the semester was spent learning to reproduce ASCII pictures. Seriously.

Critical Thinking ... it wasn't even thinking, we did absolutely nothing and it was a required course freshman year. P/F of course -_-*

Oh wait they taught us how to think about how to do our homework.

[Comic Store Guy Voice] Worst Class Ever [/Comic Store Guy Voice]

Logic and Critical Thinking - I suppose it would be useful if I had 20 minutes to translate each argument into 'standard form' before I made a decision.

I am taking biology myself at this time and I couldnt agree more. It has helped me help my sister in her MA training though.

How about the entire twelfth grade?

My father relocated to the states at the beginning of my senior year and being raised in DoD/Private schools, I tested FAR higher than my classmates but was forced to enroll in classes that were remedial to me because the cirriculum was not the same as that overseas. (ie: Driver's Ed when I had already had a license for THREE years) I was also appalled by the behavior of these students, the amount of things that one could get away with, the smallmindedness of those living even in a major metropolitan area. I was a very unhappy camper. My entire senior year was a waste, riddled with classes REVIEWING material I'd already learned.

I may have not cared for some classes but thus far Ive always grown in some way from each.

Freshman Orientation Comp Peice o' Shi'te non-transferable waste of time. Couldn't even sleep in it either.

Pottery, it goes without saying!! I'm paying how much for this course?!!

Glad

Statistics.......all three times

I took a social issues course in college that was a complete waste of time. The goal of the course seemed to be to indoctrinate undergraduates in political correctness. It didn't have any real content. We could have discussed the history of different civil rights movements in the US, or the psychology of in-group/out-group effects, etc.. Instead, we discussed how everyone should be nice and respectful to everyone else. (A good idea in general, but not a good idea for the class). Every student competed with every other student to be the most "enlightened".

frisbee golf...but man, that was fun

Heck. I have a degree in Electrical Engineering, yet I'm not an Electrical Engineer, nor do I have any desire to be one. I could fill a notebook listing pointless classes. But, off the top of my head...

Differential Equations.

Macro Economics... taught by Ben Stein's twin.... "Beuller... Beuller..." for 3 hours once a week.

what is the lowest level math taught in colleges? Algebra?

COM1100: English
Elementary school all over again, weeeeee!

High School: Baking
College: Discreet Mathematics

For me it was in High School: Office Aid. All I did was spend 5 minutes picking up attendance sheets and occasionaly run notes to a class. The class was an hour long of sitting in the school's office doing nothing. Couldnt even sleep due to the officals working in there.

I always thought p.e. was kind of pointless.

The most worthless class I ever took wasn't one of mine, but I had to go for my wife. She had a Orchestra Directing course. You couldn't miss. Even if it wasn't your turn to direct. You either had to be there or find someone to go for you so the person practicing there directing had someone to direct. I don't play an instrument and don't even read music but I got stuck filling in for her and had to go and attempt to play a bunch of pecussion instruments while some idiot tried to direct us. Could have been worse I guess. They could have wanted me to play the violin or something.

This thread reminds me of a line from the song Kodachrome, by Paul Simon:

*When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all...*

My entire high school experience was a waste of time with the exception of some lit classes, Spanish and a music class.

Most useless college classes (post- grad)? Career Counseling- the information I gleaned from that class could have been summed up in one lecture, and Cultural Diversity- Be mindful when counseling someone of a different cultural background than yours, that you don't impose your values on them. Well, duh!

Keyboarding had to be the most useless class ever for me. You can't learn to type when you already know how. P.E. and health made no sense either.

I would have to say the four years of religion classes i was forced to take in high school were useless. Stupid private schools.

I once had a geometry class that I would blow off monday thru thursday. Never scored lower than 90% on a test or final, but failed because my homework wasn't turned in. They would not advance me to Algebra II because geometry was required

Years ago, I placed out of Freshman Comp, my replacement was Anthropocentrism. To this day I am still trying to figure out what the Hell Anthropocentrism is. All I remember is an article that we had to read entitled "Save the Whales and Screw the Shrimp". Yeah, that class helped a whole lot.

typing class when youre faster/make less mistakes than the instructor

10 hours of French in college. Didn't pass a single test yet still passed the class, go figure I guess it was because I went to class everyday.

Grondar, I really do feel your pain. Really.
But that being said there are no useless classes. None. Period.
Musashi was a famous Japanese Samurai who wrote "From one thing know 10 000". or roughly that.
Each piece of knowledge you pick up, you can use at some point even if it's rudimentary German it may be the one thing that places you ahead of your competition.
And for the folks complaining about your gym classes, your body is as important as your mind. Even Stephen Hawking would agree I think...

well for me it has to be psychology of religion. i took the class expecting to learn about some general psychological theroies on religion for an example the thought process on how a person might become a fanatic. i was looking for that kinda of stuff.

the class was just a way for christians to say the psychology is a subset of religion specifically christianity. correct me if i am wrong but isn't psychology a science, or art, of how or why a person thinks. Religion is for morals and thoughts on the afterlife. i kept a open mind and stayed until the end of class but our final was to write a paper on how this class change our sprituality. so i wrote a very short paper saying that i am a atheist.

to clearify it was a psychology class not a religion class.

To me gym is just fucking retarded, but at least you got to play games ;)
So I'd have to say that keyboarding was the most pointless class... especially when you can type faster than the teacher :D

in Uni they made us take a basic english grammar and reading course. I was light years ahead of most of the people in the class. It was soooooo boring and covered stuff we all did in High School.