I already use Rate My Professors to help me choose a professor for each class I take. I’m coming up on the last elective of my general education track, though, and I can’t decide what class to take next semester. What I’d really like is a website where students rate how interesting, useful, etc. their elective classes were. A lot of people I know don’t like electives, but I frankly wish I could take more elective classes, and I think they’re a wonderful chance to step outside the box and learn something outside of my major. I’d hate to waste my last one on a less interesting class where I won’t learn as much new, relevant information.
Does anyone know of such a site?
While this looks better than RMP for what RMP does–and it does have some extra features–its features overview doesn’t mention anything like what I’m looking for.
What I’m looking for is a site where students talk about the class they took, itself–whether or not they found it interesting, if they learned a lot from it, what they learned, etc., independent of the teacher’s skill or method. At the very least, I’d like to see reviews from a certain class all in one page, instead of the way RMP’s search-by-course works: you enter a course name, get a list of profs that have reviews from students taking that course, then you open the prof’s page and search through pages and pages to find the course you’re interested in, where you may or may not find any mention of the merits of the course itself.
…And it doesn’t have my college.
This isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, but it might be useful just the same. Lots of colleges have LiveJournal communities. Go there and search for whatever-the-name-of-your-college-is as an interest; I’d be marginally surprised if your college doesn’t have a community. Make a LiveJournal account (it’s really easy!) and you can make a post inquiring about the specific classes you’re interested in.