After not enjoying Applied Calculus, I took Modern Math, AKA Math For English Majors, to complete my math requirement.

It was a great class! Lots of useful, real-world math skills. It didn't use anything much more complicated than simple algebra, but we talked about the traveling salesman problem and ways to fairly split up an estate.

We also talked about election math, and how first past the post is objectively a terrible election system, and how there are several systems readily available that are mathematically more representative of the will of the people. I don't even know if the teacher had a specific political stance, or if she was just mathematically offended by our outdated democratic operating system.

Great class. Wish they would start teaching subjects like that in high school.