Would you take Food Science [experiment-based] or Beyond Foundation Physics?

Question

Module Registration opens soon, I need opinions please.

Here are the two modules, Food Science [biology] and Beyond Foundational Physics.

Food Science is basically a module about how food is related to their daily life in terms of health, safety, environmental impacts and potential careers, through experiments [100%].

Beyond Foundational Physics is an Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, General Relativity, Particle Physics and Cosmology, but it's more theory-based and there's an exam.

I'm more interested in the Physics, but it's quite likely we'll have to learn it at higher levels anyway, while with the bio we may not be able to.

I can only choose either! I would like a few opinions, please.

Answer 1

What year are you? High school? Underclassman in college? If so, I strongly recommend Food Science. It is a lot more fun and a lot more useful for your daily life.

If you are an upperclassman in college with a decent maths and physics background, or if you are an underclassman with solid (I mean *real* solid) background in maths, and if you are willing to spend a lot of time reading, then perhaps the physics class will be nice. In my opinion, the topics in "Beyond Foundational Physics" are not worth learning if you can not learn them thoroughly and deeply. From the course description you give, it sounds like it is just a simple overview of various "facts", probably without real explanation of why those facts are. When physics becomes rote memorization, it becomes completely useless: not understanding the "why" makes it impossible for you to apply the theory to a better understanding or appreciation of nature, and raw facts you tend to forget anyway after a year or two.