Those are totally the best classes. I had (heh, had. more like chose) to do a report on Dark Angel, and I totally aced it. The comments were something like 'you really seem to know what you're talking about here, and know a lot about the show. Good research.' I thought that was great.
and man, why didn't i think of doing that for MY public speaking class. That would have made my speeches SO much easier to do.