One of the most fun classes I took in college was in my first quarter. I had graduated high school in May and didn't have any particular plans for the summer, so I started college. I was attending the one in my hometown, anyway, so it wasn't like I had to travel or anything. Anyway, I took the requisite English Composition, but we had a visiting professor that summer. Instead of the same old, same old, we did a course in "The History of the English Language" which was just fascinating!! It was amazing to learn what an amalgam our language is!
We only ended up having to write three compositions that summer, and he made sure we didn't fill it up with what he called "Easter Vocabulary"; words we never used, but put in papers to make it sound fancy.