Doorways in the Sand, good book.
LOL, that was the name of it! I'll have to go back and reread it again.
Basketweaving - that was the course I was trying to remember.
Found part of a review from Amazon:
We meet him (the protagonist, Fred) as he drops into the third-floor office of his latest advisor---through the window of course. Fred has gone through many advisors in his twelve-year stint as an undergraduate--his late uncle's estate will only support him up to the moment when he is awarded a degree--but this particular advisor seems to have a grudge against him. He thinks he has Fred trapped in a schedule that will force him to graduate.
Fred manages to escape the dread specter of graduation one more time by signing up for field work in Australia, a literature course on troubadours, and two hours credit for advanced basket weaving.