Staff Editorial: Our Fall 2024 course recommendations

This week, WashU students are picking their courses for the Fall 2024 semester. While they may be last-minute, we hope that our Student Life editorial staff recommendations can help you make final scheduling decisions. Maybe it will even save you from the emergency course search after not getting your first or second choices in your 10 a.m. registration time (or maybe this is just a humanities/social science major issue…).  L32 Pol Sci 3326: Topics in Politics: Freedom and Resistance in African American Political Thought African American Political Thought is for the poli sci majors and minors who are tired of reading quantitative studies (me too) and/or anyone who is interested in political theory, racial justice, and social justice. In the class, you close-read different African American political thinkers, including my personal favorites, ​​W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B Wells, and discuss different texts every class. Each week, you do annotations of the readings and write a reflection. I look forward to every class and thoroughly enjoy every discussion. It is the only class I’ve taken at WashU where nearly everyone in the class will say hi when we see each other on campus. I’d recommend taking any of...