Malarkey salesmen, all of them.
“And what about The History of Surfing,”?
Imagine the Final Exam
Who is credited with having invented the term “Hang Ten”
Who was the first Ho Daddy?
Why so few Afro-American Surfers?
When I was in school...the physics department offered a handful of 1 credit courses than lasted one third of the semester.
(The disadvantage was sometimes the cost of the text that was only good for one month.)
Any way, save for the all-but-totally useless "Beyonce" pimping, the rest could be worth a credit for a month's study.
I can't really see any benefit for the typical student wasting time in a padded-out, narrow-interest, cultural topic for an entire semester.
(* BA would be "Barista Arts")