Investigate the professor, or whoever is actually teaching.
What I got out of my courses depended in some very significant ways more upon how they were taught and by whom, than upon the ostensible topic at hand.
I have great respect for educators who have sincere interest and a passion to convey it.
These are also the people who tend, one finds, to have a better handle on the "mechanics" that are important to and education. Writing, presenting, engaging in dialog and debate, respecting one's conversational partner -- even while endeavoring to enlightened them as to their mistakes and assumptions.
Such people also engage you in the work, so that it's actually interesting and enjoyable to do. It's a lot easier to learn things, including those "mechanics", when that is the case.
That said, do try to get some -- but not solely or even primarily -- grounding in the "real", workaday world. Schools matriculate too many students who have no idea what they face once they walk out the door.
What I got out of my courses depended in some very significant ways more upon how they were taught and by whom, than upon the ostensible topic at hand.
I have great respect for educators who have sincere interest and a passion to convey it.
These are also the people who tend, one finds, to have a better handle on the "mechanics" that are important to and education. Writing, presenting, engaging in dialog and debate, respecting one's conversational partner -- even while endeavoring to enlightened them as to their mistakes and assumptions.
Such people also engage you in the work, so that it's actually interesting and enjoyable to do. It's a lot easier to learn things, including those "mechanics", when that is the case.
That said, do try to get some -- but not solely or even primarily -- grounding in the "real", workaday world. Schools matriculate too many students who have no idea what they face once they walk out the door.