I thought I was clear that while there were some proper “cross training” subjects and electives, many universities are puffing their majors with required or required elective “crap” courses, often to cynically increase tuition, and/or to get kickbacks from those who make student loans.
Culture and Identity
Queer Musicology
Ufology
The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender, and Media
How to Win a Beauty Pageant
What If Harry Potter Is Real?
Zombies in Popular Media
Medieval Mystics of Europe
The Joys of Garbage
Vampire Studies
Vampires: The Evolution of a Sexy Monster
History of Beyonce
Power Walking
Critical Theory & Social Justice
Demystifying the Hipster
Transgender and Race
Looking At Animals
Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music
Invented Languages: Klingon and Beyond
Rainbow Cowboys (and Girls): Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality in Westerns
Maple Syrup Tasting
Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology
Queering the Bible
How to Watch TV
Homophobia in the U.S. Society in the New Millennium
Gendered Politics of Food
Feminist Research Methods
Are We Still Fabulous?: Queer Identity in Contemporary Drama
Radical Sexuality: Of Color, Wildness and Fabulosity
Globalizing Gender and Sexuality
Truly, if someone thinks these classes are useful, fine. Just don’t use taxpayer money or student loans to pay for them.
Let the market decide. If you want to borrow money to go to a class that is a total waste of time, go ahead. But when you find out that it was a poor use of the funds, it's too late. Stupidity is no excuse.
I would recommend that the Boards of Regents for these universities forbid them from requiring such courses. Soon those classrooms will be empty and those "professors" will be fighting for the car-parking jobs. And we'll have fewer educated idiots running around college campuses.