... were the most objectively difficult in terms of material. They were NT classes taught by a professor with a PhD in near Eastern religious studies from Duke. The objectively difficult part was that he would bring in things like alternate translations, meanings in Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic, broader historical context, etc. I LOVED it--I found it enriched my knowledge of the gospel and the Bible so much to see contextually what the scriptures were saying. I had a D&C professor who brought in much historical context as well, and I similarly enjoyed it.

The classes I hated (and actually got lower grades in) were my freshman BOM and one semester of D&C. Class time was almost exclusively touchy-feely seminary style stuff, and then tests would be gotcha questions (obscure references, passages, or weird interpretations they'd thrown out in class). I loathed it because I preferred an either/or approach: teach me doctrine, build my testimony, etc and grade the class that way, or make it more academically rigorous and give me some kind of insights I didn't have before. Don't ham-handedly try to do both (and not really succeed at either IMO).