Posted on 01/07/2007 6:56:22 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
The "dirty dozen" list of "America's Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses" is out — and Los Angeles-area institutions of higher learning have walked away with one-fourth of the ranked honors (or dishonors). Occidental College, an 1,800-student liberal arts school in Eagle Rock, is the only college on the list to collect not one but two citations for excellence at offering trendy theories of gender, skin color and white-male oppression at the expense of actual academic content.
UCLA didn't fare badly either, with one citation. And believe me, the competition was stiff. The Southern California colleges were competing against such nationally recognized PC heavyweights as Cornell, Amherst, the University of Michigan and, of course, Duke.
The list comes from the Young America's Foundation, a 40-year-old nonprofit funded by conservative individuals and foundations. Its No. 1 slot this year for bizarre class offerings went to Occidental, for a course called "The Phallus."
No, it's not a biology course. It's a survey, offered by Oxy's department of critical theory and social justice, of "feminist and queer takings-on of the phallus." Topics include "the relation between the phallus and the penis, the meaning of the phallus, phallologocentrism, the lesbian phallus, the Jewish phallus, the Latino phallus, and the relation of the phallus and fetishism."
You might wonder how a lesbian can have a phallus, or whether it's possible to say "phallologocentrism" three times without tripping on your tongue, but if so, it's likely that you won't be getting an "A" from Occidental professor Jeffrey Tobin, who is teaching the course this spring semester.
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I didn't even know it was a class; here I was, all these years, doing my own independent research! :)
Oh, God. With all the rain we're having here in the northeast, I'll be seeing that hidious thing all over my neighborhood. Uck!
Woah! What a post to wake up to!
LOL
My My, I can see you would never flunk that course!LOL
After all, if we're going to have a national phallic symbol, let's not be coy about it...
Can you imagine this department's staff meetings? Talk about a miserable assembly of the world's most perpetually pissed-off people . . .
If made to feminist standards it has a two cylinder engine and its a hybrid rated for 100 miles and the batteries are super expensive. Of course if you actually use it you only get about 5 miles to the gallon.
real classes are hard to teach.
BS classes mean nobody can question a professor's wacked out beliefs.
Then there's their course about the Clinton administration:
"The Rise and Phallus of the Roamin' (Sink) Emperor"
"I never knew King Kong was Jewish!"
Be careful.
The Islamonuts will be claiming that this rock is proof that they are telling the truth.
head in hands - long moooooaaaaaaaaaannn
Where I worked while in the Army in the 70's;
http://www.ccc.de/teufelsberg/
Yes, and their parents are brainless liberals, so it wasn't a surprise.
Would you let your kids enroll in such worthless classes?
When my kids pay their own way to college, they can take all the worthless courses they want. But not as long as I'm paying.
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