Cadavers bring learning to life for MCC students
Montserrat Camacho
Most students travel the expected route when talking about professional careers. However, a select few opt for more interesting experiences.
Many are now pursuing careers like bartending, disk jockeying, jewelry designing and mortuary science.
These careers not only seem to be the student’s passion but also have the potential to pay more than many common jobs.
Individual courses can be even more random and at the whim of the professors who create them.
Nowadays, some of the most out-there courses are being offered nationwide in colleges and universities.
“I would consider an unusual course anything unrelated to the basics, a class one is not accustomed to taking, one that teaches you about things that you haven’t touched base on through your entire schooling,” said MCC student Krista Retes.
Roberto DeLima, a student at Grand Canyon University, described an unusual course to be anything that was not common in all majors, like english, math and science courses.
Edmundo Yeomans, a student at ASU, said that the definition of what is an unusual course changes depending on the person who is asked.
“Everyone has different majors and a course that may seem normal for some can be really random and obscure to others,” Yeomans said.
Scott Russell, a professor at MCC, said, “I think that my Magic, Witchcraft, and Healing class would be considered to be an unusual one because of the topic.”
Russell described his course as a world religions class that basically deals with religions around the world that are not among the most popular ones, like Wicca.
“People that take my class are usually students that have taken a world religions course and who want to learn more about the smaller and less popular religions,” Russell said, adding that he gets five or six students who practice Wicca each semester.
“I think my death and dying class is an unusual one,” Retes said. “When people find out I’m taking that class I always get a reaction. I know it sounds kind of morbid, but it is a class where you learn about valuing life.”
Retes took the course because it sounded interesting and unusual.
“Most people are afraid of death. I would recommend this class to anyone so they can learn to treasure life, to look at death from different perspectives and to not live like a robot, but to live and love to the fullest,” Retes said.
“I’m a film major student and almost all of my courses are very unusual to most people,” Yeomans said.
“Right now I’d say that the most unusual course I’m taking is my Myth of Scarface course.”
“Most people think that the class is just about learning of the film “Scarface” and Al Pacino, I always have to explain to them that the class is all about learning the mythology that surrounds films of the gangster genre,” Yeomans said.
DeLima said, “I think that my coaching theory classes are unusual because not many students major in physical education and want to coach for the rest of their lives.”
DeLima added, he decided to take that course because he wants to learn how to be a good coach and how to handle players and treat them with respect.
Retes said, “I have found the more random courses I take, the most rewarding they are because they are often the professors’ personal passions, so they are more likely to throw their heart and soul into leading them.
