Favorite electives - Brigham Young University-Idaho Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
So my favorite elective class that I have taken at BYU-Idaho is actually a sewing class that I took. It's just like the really basic one, and we sewed, I believe, a skirt, and pajama pants, and a button-up shirt, and a pillowcase, and I still use the pillowcase to this day, and I thought that it taught me a lot, and I really enjoyed the make of the machines, so I enjoyed the brand of them, so that was really nice because I had already had some prior knowledge on them, but also I just, I've really developed a love for sewing, and so finding a class that has something to do with something that you really truly love is a really good choice you should try and go for.
Video 2 Transcript
So one class that I love is Parenting by Brother Rarick, and honestly it is a class that will rock your world. Like everything you think you know about, maybe you are a parent, maybe you're married, maybe you're just dating, maybe you just want to learn how to be a better parent. This class just teaches you so much about how to see people as people and not as objects, and how to look outside of yourself to find a better way of going about teaching and living. It's honestly already changed my life and I'm only under halfway of the semester. It's an amazing class. Yeah, Parenting by Brother Rarick, Timothy Rarick.
Video 3 Transcript
One of my favorite electives that I took, or it is a required class for a communications major, but I took a public speaking class. That was really cool. I really enjoyed learning how to be a good public speaker and communicate ideas and topics clearly and how to engage an audience. I really enjoyed that class a lot. I felt like it taught me a lot of really useful skills, and I would recommend it to anyone.
Video 4 Transcript
If you like to sing at all, I would highly recommend joining one of the choirs. I believe that all of them are auditioned now, but I would highly recommend auditioning for choir because you will grow so much spiritually and vocally from all of the choir directors that are there now. They're all amazing and I have worked with all of them and I highly recommend. Choir is just a great opportunity to perform and to get to have this community and this family that you learn to sing with and to work with, and it's just a really, really great opportunity. And kind of on that thread also is theater. If you're able to do any kind of theater 101 class or acting 101 for an elective, I would highly recommend that as well because acting is going to be used for your entire life, whether you're an actor or not, in your job and in interacting with people and just anything in life actually involves acting, whether you realize it or not. If you have any space in your schedule, take a choir or an acting class. You will not regret it.
Video 5 Transcript
There is an adaptive recreational sports. That's a fun game, a fun one to go to. And then there's also like art classes or sculpting classes. That's a lot of fun. Any of the rec management classes. Rock climbing, there's cross-country ski, there's canyoneering, there's fly tying. A blast and a half. You make a lot, make a lot of good friends there too.
Video 6 Transcript
One of the things I loved the most at my time at BYU-Idaho was the ballroom dance classes. Those were so much fun. I got to meet so many new friends. I was fresh off my mission, a super awkward return missionary. I didn't know how to talk to girls at all, and I just felt okay being really awkward in front of everyone, and it was fine because nobody knew what they were doing, and none of us knew how to dance. We just knew we wanted to try, and it was just a fun, friendly environment. Definitely one of the things I miss most about my time at BYU-Idaho is the many friends I met through dance and ballroom, and it was just so much fun.
Video 7 Transcript
Bro, one of my favorite electives, um, any major can take it. It was called Intro to Film, Art, and Analysis. It was one of the easiest classes in the world. It was like, and it was three credits, I think. Yeah, it's basically a movie class. If you're really big into movies, um, you get to talk about movies, talk about like what makes them good. Yeah, and every Wednesday you get to go watch a movie, and I thought it was going to be like some junkie movies. Yeah, there were a few that were like, meh, but like you get to watch some pretty cool ones. One of them was Inception, um, Lord of the Rings, the first one. Yeah, yeah, so it's a pretty awesome class.
Video 8 Transcript
An awesome class that my wife's in right now. I don't have enough electives to take it. It's called family recreation and literally all you do all semester is play games, play games and activities and at the end of the semester you get a book full of all the activities that happened that you did, that your like teammates did, your classmates did and you get this whole book to take home to use in FHEs, to use in jobs, to use in church activities, to use in just party games. You know, there is so much for you to do and she comes home every day about with a new thing like a painted rock or origami or a cool game to try. So super cool. Definitely recommend family recreation.
Video 9 Transcript
One class I'm taking right now that it's for my major but a lot of people in my class are taking it as an elective is interpersonal theory and practice and it's such a useful class. It goes over communication skills and things like listening and emotions and perspective and it kind of broadens the way that you view things and you view people and you view the interactions that you have with them and I just think that it's incredibly useful no matter what major you're going into, what career path you want to do. It's all skills and knowledge, it's very applicable.
Video 10 Transcript
My favorite electives were in the Recreation Management Department, mountaineering with Steve Kugath, canyoneering with Steve Kugath, and cross-country skiing.
Video 11 Transcript
My favorite elective was coaching basketball theory class and the aerobics certification classes. Learning how to teach aerobics classes were the best.
Video 12 Transcript
So there is Wilderness First Aid, which is so cool. It's three credits and you basically just show up to class at the very end. You do this whole mock thing where you have people who are like in an airplane crash and you go out and you rescue them and it's really fun and it's typically the work from one credit class. And so then other classes that I've taken that are really fun would be a marriage skills class. That one isn't just marriage skills, but it teaches you a lot about communication and how to have effective communication with just the people around you and it's really enlightening and it's not very heavy workload at all. I also love social dance, I love country dance and there's quite a few other ones like drawing classes, but you'd have to email the professors to be able to get into those ones because they're typically limited for art students. Then there's also rock climbing, basic outdoor skills and yeah.
Video 13 Transcript
One of the best electives that I found on campus are the dance courses, especially the social dance classes like Dance 180 and all of those when you start building up with them. It's a one-credit class that actually only takes the three hours per credit that it says, and that is a class that has helped me and my friends that have taken it just stay sane without overwhelming. We still have something fun to look forward to without using up too much of our elective credits while doing it.
Video 14 Transcript
I really recommend that everybody takes the interpersonal communication class, and it is in the communication department, but you don't have to be a comm major to take it. And it was a really great class to just help with your overall communication with different communicating styles, and different people, and different types of people. And I did meet one of my best friends in that class a few years ago, and so it's just a really great class overall for anybody, whether you're in the comm department or not.
Video 15 Transcript
So one of my favorite electives that I took, I can't remember like the abbreviation but it's called library research and skills. It was a one credit class that I took from this very nice elderly woman and the stuff that she taught was actually very, I would say really interesting considering that I don't really know too much about a library and what I mean by that it's like like the best way to like find books and stuff like that and how to do good research at a library as well. It also wasn't that hard as well and she was really big about making personal connections in that class. So for example, like memorizing everyone's names, learning a fact or two about them, stuff like that. So it was a great easy one credit class that I really enjoyed.
Video 16 Transcript
My favorite elective that I took was a floral design class and I just took it for fun my freshman year and it ended up being something that I am now minoring in because I really really liked it but it's just such a fun class and you get to do so many fun things and make so many fun exciting projects and they also have a lot of really fun ways to serve others through the things that you make. So some of the assignments would be like make like a little arrangement and make a couple of them and go give them out around campus or making arrangements for senior centers in Rexburg and then getting to go deliver them. So it's a really fun class. I loved it. I love it so much. I'm still doing it but that is one that I would recommend taking.
Video 17 Transcript
So I always loved taking a choir class when I was there. I took one pretty much every semester, and I always took the one that didn't require you audition. It had a couple of different names while I was there. I think at the beginning it was University Choir, and then it switched to Women's Glee, but it was really nice to get the elective credits, but also just get to have a breath and just take a break from all of the studying and just go to a class that's really fun and doesn't, you know, require tests or anything like that, but still to get credit for it.
Video 18 Transcript
Collective was a helping relationships class where we learned how to facilitate good communication between people and how to help people through difficult times.
Video 19 Transcript
Hey guys, so my favorite elective at BYU-Idaho by far was intro to film because I was going to be a dentist and it opened up my mind to the possibility of doing film, being an actor, or just being involved with film as a profession. It was the first class where I did so well at it the professor actually asked me to be a TA and most of the classes like the professor would be like Jason you should go see the TA because you need extra help but that was the first class where I felt just like it fit with my natural abilities and the professor there was so encouraging. I wish I could remember his name it's been so long but he was just so encouraging and it just when he reached out for me to be a TA it just meant so much to me and he taught me so much about how to appreciate film the different genres and stuff and just kind of gave me that excitement for it so I'm very grateful for him.
Video 20 Transcript
My favorite elective that I took at BYU-Idaho was fly tying. I thought that was a great experience. I've never really been into fishing, but it was something that my wife and I got to do together. Another class that my wife and I took together was child development, and that was a great way to learn about what a baby is when they come out, what you got to do for them, and those little things that need to happen along the way to help the kids out as they develop and grow. I thought that was a very beneficial elective to take.
Video 21 Transcript
Okay, this class is a prerequisite psychology class, so anybody can take it, and it can be kind of difficult, and so take it with a tutor, but by Johan Delton, because he's amazing. It is called History and Systems of Psychology, and you learn how to see things from different perspectives. He's really good at defending each of these perspectives and showing you how each of them are valid, and how you can build your whole worldview around it, but it's also really cool to see how it kind of correlates along the timeline with, like, when Christ was on the earth and stuff, and leading up to the restoration, and just, like, the different worldviews that were popular at different times, and things that were similar and different to the gospel, and I don't know. It's just really cool, but it really opened my mind to, I don't know, being able to empathize with people, and I think that's a really Christ-like quality.
Video 22 Transcript
One of my favorite classes at BYUI was, elective classes, was Dance Beginning Dancer 101, if I remember right. It was such a fun class, you know. They teach you different classes, like different dances, from like swing to ballroom dance and different, you know, steps, and it was just a wonderful experience, you know. I get to know, like, really great friends. I really got to know different people that otherwise I wouldn't have. So, highly recommend the class because it opens you and, you know, to learn new skills and also to socialize a bit when you're just so focused on school and classes and work and homework. So, I would say those, that class is just really a great way to, you know, exercise all other skills that are important to develop as well.
Video 23 Transcript
What I enjoyed most about the electives is that you could learn some pretty high-tech stuff. For example, I was taking a video creation course where we were learning the nuts and bolts of Adobe Premiere, not just superficially, but we were digging in pretty much into the software. Another example, learning Pro Tools, having one class that actually gave us the certification for Pro Tools use by the end of the course, which was awesome. I've taken a few extra religion courses that I didn't need to take. Well, I mean, I still needed to take seven, but you can decide which ones you want to take after taking the four basic fundamentals. One that I loved was Christian history, which gave an almost year-by-year example, delving into what occurred in the history of the Christian church to, well, sometimes even eye-opening as to what occurred and why it occurred. So those were my favorite electives.
