Recall in the late 70’s, some gals going to college for a MRS degree.
South Park deserves a bit of study on campus. No complaints about that one. As far as the zombie apocalypse study, I don’t think it’s all that necessary - the zombies are after brains, after all...
Lazy teachers beget lazy students.
Stop supporting state schools that are depositories for useless subjects and unworthy teachers and students. They are “make work” institutions for underachieving glib teachers, and students deceived by the value of a college degree. I would bet that at least 20% of all classes would be cut for being trivial subjects, with a 20% cut in tuition and costs to the universities. Slightly larger classes with less professors would cut another 5-10 percent.
Add these to the list: any course tat has the word studies in it, like Woman Studies, Trans Studies.
Any course in these departments like Gender Studies. Woman Studies, Femenist Studies throw the entire university.
Add these to the list: any course tat has the word studies in it, like Woman Studies, Trans Studies.
Any course in these departments like Gender Studies. Woman Studies, Femenist Studies throw the entire university.
If you like to read, there’s always the Austen-Dickens seminar I took in Yale grad school. Five novels of Austen, twenty novels of Dickens, period and biographical background material, three term papers.
The Physics of Star Trek could be interesting.
Please tell me these are one credit easy A courses akin to a PE course?!
Oh... My.... Gawd. That is guaranteed to lower any student's intelligence.
The classic example, though it may be apocryphal, is “Underwater Basket Weaving”.
At Arizona State you can take a course in the “Lyrics of Taylor Swift”.
When I went to college there was one elective class per year. By my Senior year they added another one. So, there were five elective classes in four years. The theory was it helped with a well, rounded education. Take one class a year that got you out of your core education. Adding an elective only adds to the revenue for the school. You have to pay for this stuff, and if it doesn’t enhance your core education, don’t take the class.
Mississippi State University has a 1 unit novelty class for freshmen, less than 20 students, so everyone is guaranteed a small, fun class to round out their schedule. My daughter took philosophy of martial arts. Taught by an Olympic coach. My sweet, shy girl learned to break a board with a karate chop! What a confidence builder! Our son took a class in fermentation. He had so much fun in the food lab he got a job there, and a summer internship in a cheese factory. His lab work led to his major in microbiology and his job after college, in the egg industry. I’m not saying every novelty class pays off like that, but some are worthwhile to add in the mix.
Did you notice that at least two of these “courses of study” were at something called and experimental college? What the heck is that.
Could you imagine being stupid enough to take out loans for malarkey classes at an experimental college?
And remember, thanks to El Retardo’s college debt cancellation, YOU are paying for people to have taken these ridiculous useless courses.
#18 might be useful.
Quite frankly, these make a lot more sense than “pornography studies” “gender queer theory”, etc. I guess the “Game of Thrones” course is along those lines but the others are quite tame compared to some of the other garbage that have been “taught” for some time.
But they aren’t exactly good courses...waste of time and money...if there is anything you could study just as easily on your own time it would be those subjects. Just more evidence of the dwindling value of a college education.
I always wanted to make my own maple syrup
Gut courses are nothing new. 40 years ago I took a course at the University of Texas called The History of Rock Music. All 400 or so students in the class got an A (three credit hours). That is why we all took the course.