The unofficial course guide

For underclassmen, it's time to pick courses for next semester. With problems besetting the online Student Course Guide, 'Prince' Contributor Lindsey White decided to ask a few students what they were considering taking next year.

Joe Kochan '02, USG President

Unfortunately, you aren't going to have much of a story because all of the classes I am taking next semester are departmentals: CHE 415 / CHM 415: Polymers CHE 442: Design, Synthesis and Optimization of Chemical Processes CHE 347: Chemical Engineering Laboratory

And my rationale? They're all required for my degree. Sorry I'm so boring.

Spence Miller '02, Class of 2002 president-elect

I hope to take ELE 491 / ORF 491: High Tech Entrepreneurship. I am very interested in business, and in today's society, the high tech sector runs the world — whether it be from computers to palm pilots to cellular phones, technology is where it is at.

While I am not an engineer, the course is open to politics majors like myself and requires no engineering skills — a good thing for me. Also, I will take POL 430: Comparative Constitutionalism. I took Constitutional Interpretation last semester, and it is a great class with a great conservative professor. Now I want to compare our constitution, the constitution of the greatest country in the world, and see how other countries' governments compare. I probably will take WWS 303 / POL 345 for my statistics course so I can incorporate some original data into my thesis.

Emily Garin '02, Princeton University Debate Panel president

I'll be taking WWS 450 / POL 440: Theory and Practice of International Diplomacy and POL 430: Comparative Constitutionalism because they're both of general interest to me, I'm a politics major and need more departmentals and because they're both somewhat related to the area that my thesis will cover.

I'm also taking REL 261 / CHV 261: Christian Ethics and Modern Society, partially because I'm interested in taking a religion class not taught by nuns — which I already survived for 13 years — and partially because I need a fourth class that fits in my schedule.

The last class that I'm taking is WOM 322: Gender, Trauma and Memory from Professor Brison because I took Philosophy of Law from her last spring, and she was amazing. She's one of the friendliest professors I've had here and her lectures are always clear and interesting. The course also covers areas of specific interest to people concerned with human rights work — [it has] narrative accounts of violence and victimization — and with women's issues in that realm.

Catherine Farmer '03, Class of 2003 president

Next semester, I lead the exciting life of a junior year, fall semester ORF major. Unfortunately —or fortunately as some people may say — that does not leave me with much creativity for my course selection. Here's my course selection though: ORF 309: I'm an ORF major. I have to take it. ORF 311: See rationale for ORF 309. ORF 405: See rationale for ORF 311. ECO 317: See rationale for ORF 405. Plus, I am pursuing a certificate in finance. FRE 351: I suppose I need at least one course that doesn't have problem sets.

Eli Goldsmith '04, Class of 2004 president

ANT 201: Introduction to Anthropology — an introductory class that's limited enrollment, fulfills my EC and is supposed to be great. POL 220: American Politics — for a probable politics major, this is an introductory course that should form a basis for further study. COS 109: Computers in Our World — a classic QR for the math-phobic. SPA 107: Intermediate / Advanced Spanish — I am horrible at Spanish, but this will be the last Spanish I'll have to take. Woohoo!