Picking College Courses

Well, first you want to steer clear of courses in underwater basket weaving and the like, courses that don't teach anything useful or even interesting.  Figure each semester course soaks up $1250 of your college tuition.  You want to spend that kind of money on stuff you can use or stuff of general utility.  You can learn a lot about the course by checking the course textbook.  College bookstores have all the textbooks for all the courses in stock.  You can flip thru them and get a fair idea of what the course is about.
   No textbook?  That's a down check on that course.  A number of know it all professors don't assign a text book, they expect students to sort of inhale the course contents out of the air.  Which is hard.  In two college educations, I never learned to take useful notes.  With a textbook to study, and review before the test, I did all right.  Without a textbook, forget it, instant flunk out.