Presenting...

Now that I've (almost) successfully completed five semesters at BYU, it is high time to introduce the event we've all been waiting for. Welcome to the newly instituted Course Awards, hosted by none other than everyone's favorite Olympic figure skater, Johnny Weir!
   

The candidates for each award are painstaking considered by the Academy, and though many courses may deserve a win in several categories (Klein's class, for example, could sweep the Goods), each is allowed to take home only one trophy. 

And now, without any further ado...

The Good

Most Influential
Ilona Klein, Honors 303 (Voices and Legacy of the Shoah)

Most Empowering
Gretchen Belnap & Doug Bradford, Arabic 101 & 102 (First Year Arabic)

Most Intellectual
Ophir Yarden, Modern Near East 349 (Judaism, Zionism, and the State of Israel)

Makes Me Want to Change My Major to Something Highly Impractical
Andrew Skinner, Ancient Near East 336 (Ancient Near Eastern History)

Most Personally Lucrative
Eric Wilson, Microbiology & Molecular Biology 417 (Medical Parasitology)

The Bad 

Biggest Letdown

Hal Miller, Honors 261 (Evolutionary Psychology and the Arts)

Most Annoyingly Underqualified
Brother Masters, Religion 311 (New Testament)

Most Maddening
Random Staff Member, Chem 107 (Inorganic Chemistry Lab)

Most Hated
Professor I've Never Seen, Physics 108 (Electricity, Magnetism, & Optics Lab)

Biggest Waste of Everyone's Time (and Old People's Tithing Money)
Jellen/Wood, University 101 (required Freshman Introduction to Science seminar)

The Ugly

Have Directly Caused Mental Breakdowns (listed in order of increasing severity)
Modern Near East 347 (Arab and Islamic Civilization: The Palestinian Narrative)
Religion 311 (New Testament)
PDBio 495 (Advanced Undergraduate Research)
Physics 108 (Electricity, Magnetism, & Optics Lab)
Honors 205 (Philosophy of Medicine)