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Popular College Courses There's at least one on every campus: a class so popular, a professor so inspiring that there's a waiting list to get in. As students head back to class after winter break, NPR surveys some of the hottest courses on the nation's campuses.

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Popular College Courses

As students return from winter break, NPR surveys some of the hottest courses on campus.

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Harvard Law Professor Draws Crowds to Class

January 3, 2005 • In the first part of a series on popular college courses, NPR's Anthony Brooks sits in on a Harvard law history class that's in such demand that students must enter a lottery to attend.

Harvard Law Professor Draws Crowds to Class

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'Far Side' Entomology Class Has Students Abuzz

January 4, 2005 • Gary Larson's "The Far Side" cartoons delighted in placing bugs in hilariously human situations. A scientist at Oregon State University uses Larson's cartoons to help students learn -- and laugh -- about insects.

'Far Side' Entomology Class Has Students Abuzz

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Juilliard Students Learn to Avoid Stage Fright

January 5, 2005 • Our series on popular college courses continues with a class at the Juilliard School that teaches young musicians and artists how to avoid one of their biggest fears: choking under pressure during a performance. NPR's Robert Smith reports.

Juilliard Students Learn to Avoid Stage Fright

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Training 'Geeks' to Write Creatively

January 6, 2005 • At the Colorado School of Mines, one of the premier engineering schools in the country, some students are setting aside their calculators and putting on their creative-thinking caps. Professor Joanne Greenberg's fiction writing class offers technically oriented students a chance to explore their artistic side. Hear NPR's Jeff Brady.

Training 'Geeks' to Write Creatively

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Bringing Life to Physics Class

January 7, 2005 • A University of North Carolina professor is doing his best to shatter the myth that physics classes are difficult boring. In one example, Richard Superfine has students pretend to be a train to demonstrate magnetic levitation.

Bringing Life to Physics Class

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