College Classes

A spacecraft from Earth enters the Crab Nebula and finds the last thing they were expecting: a spacecraft from another planet, exploring the same part of space. A standoff results because neither spaceship has the ability to destroy the other.

Should those degrees we spend tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars on should maybe focus less on forcing freshman to take sex ed and Bio 101 and instead provide us with courses on how to do our taxes?

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum claimed on Monday that most public universities in the University of California system do not offer American hist...

College, to me, is a place for exploration, a place to decide which of the many things that exist in the world are interesting to you. You don't need to decide what to do with your life at age 18. In my mind, it's one of the best reasons to go to college.

What really happens in college classes? Reddit member rivalxshowxtime seems to have an idea. The original photo is actually pretty old, taken at t...

For those who attend a school with an interim program, January means returning to school. Those of you who are still at home, basking in the laziness of a longer hiatus, may be wondering what exactly a J-Term entails.

We would much rather still be reading on the beach, reading at the library, reading in bed after waking up late... but summer always has to end, what can you do about it?

What exactly makes a class difficult? Is it a professor with indecipherable handwriting who mumbles through lectures and refuses to curve a test with...

Somehow you did everything right. After all of the late nights studying Worthless 101 and paper writing for Not Helpful 102, you have some free space ...

Do you wish you had been given the ability to design your own major in college? While there are colleges and universities that have rigorous curriculu...

From courses on Mad Men and Glee to iPad apps and the financial collapse, The Daily Beast rounds up the coolest classes on campus this fall. At Har...

E-books and e-readers seem to be here to stay for better or worse. The nature of education in the years to come is going to be determined by my technologically-savvy students.