RE: The most worthless college courses I personally took
I feel that these classes are for academic resuscitation; a way to boost your GPA when yoy are struggling.
My most useless class was a leadership class taken just last year. It was little to no reading and writing, mostly theoretical nonsense, and finally our leadership skills was never put to the test, so no one learned anything. If you were shy before, you were going to remain that way.
I also took chinese calligraphy many years ago which was just....lol. Damn teacher would get in our ear if we feel asleep or didn't write the character in the right order. Needless to say, I have never written a lick of chinese after that.
There was also cryptography. Don't let the name fool you, this was before cryptocurrency began. So instead of learning the cryptographic hash function used in Bitcoin (sha 256), we were learning outdated crypto methods used during World war 2, which was scrambling letters and making us figure it out. Absolutely worthless.
That's all I can think of.
one class that appeared useless when i signed up for it but was actually one of the most useful courses I ever studied in school was a speech class. I have never shied away from public speaking but I know a lot of people that are absolutely terrified of it. This course helped us to get our thoughts together and present them in a confident and concise manor. To this day it is one of the only classes that I took in my 7 years of college that I actually remember a lot of what we studied.