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What was your favorite course of study? (yeah, it's biased -- do your best!)
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @03:39AM (3 children)
I'm definitely biased, but my favorite is Intro to Logic on both levels. As a student, I loved the way it formally covered the thoughts and insights I had on how to reason. I also liked the way that it connected set logic to stuff I had learned in mathematics. And then when I thought everything had been covered, the last week covered MVL (specifically null-based unknowns, like in SQL) and fuzzy logic.
As a professor, it is such a great feeling to watch a class go through it. Even though a good chunk of the class takes it as a Gen Ed, everyone seems to get something out of it at the end. For some, it is the realization that RAA and conditional proofs are valid forms of argument; others love the evolving history of Aristotelian AIEO syllogistic logic, through prepositional, symbolic, predicate, modal, HOL/MVL/fuzzy/dialtheism, and beyond; other love the link to mathematics; others like the link to electrical engineering; others like the link to computer science and engineering; others like the formality in a sea of otherwise "soft" classes they take as Gen Eds; some like the discussions of informal logic and named fallacies; and some even take it on purpose to go on to the advanced logic classes.
Done correctly, it really is the class with something for everyone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:24PM
Logic is pretty cool. Was funny to discover my girlfriend and I knew many of the same things, she from studying philosophy and I from math and physics. :) Not something you see every day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @02:28AM
Definitely one of my favorite classes way back in Uni. I was a microbiology major, but I took the comp-sci version not the philosophy version, and we wrote proofs in a programming language called MIZAR on an then-already-ancient MTS mainframe.
The weird thing is that they wait until 1st or 2nd year University to teach this stuff. I've met so many otherwise intelligent and educated people with no grasp of simple logic. It is so incredibly useful in "real life" that they really should be starting in 1st grade.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 04 2018, @08:26AM
Logic wasn't my favorite, it was the hardest class. But I got the most out of it. I'm so thankful that I took that one. Because I use it for so many things every day.