"From my understanding, this is a class that is teaching students to critically engage in topics of identity around sexuality, nationality, disability ... [issues] that are not only part of the larger public discourse, but that people are engaged in on many college campuses and within the broader society as well."
Don't forget to check out the slide show of these freaks we are elevating! Eleven imgages that clearly spell out this agenda.
Anything but solid knowledge is emphasized.
One of ths “slides”:
FemSex
No — it’s not a pornography site, but rather an independent study course at Carleton College that stands for “Female Sexuality.” The Carleton Gender and Sexuality department bills it on their Web site as “The class ... you’ve been waiting to take!”
Assigned homework readings range from “I’m not fat, I’m Latina” and “Myth of the black butt” to “How to have energy orgasms” and plenty of other titles that we can’t print here.
Eric Sieger, Director of Media & Public Relations at Carleton, said the class, which requires an instructor’s approval, is relatively new — and with an annual tuition of $40,000, FemSex costs about $4,500 to take.
“The course is basically a study in the history and culture of the female sexuality perspective,” Sieger said.
Another educational glimpse of a dumbed down course
(slide show):
Video Game Studies
If you need a break from math at MIT, “Introduction to Videogame Studies” might appeal to you.
“Students play and analyze videogames while reading current research and theory,” reads the course description, which says students are expected to beat the games too, “in consultation with the instructor.”
Annual tuition at MIT is almost $40,000, which works out to around $4,500 per class.
Source: AP/Electronic Arts
NO wonder the college graduates can’t get jobs.
What a waste!
Another slide:
(Keep in mind these are college courses for CREDIT!)
Tree Climbing
At Cornell University, you can fulfill your physical education requirement by taking tree climbing for $700.
“Students are excited,” said Professor Mark Holton, who teaches the class. “We have never offered a tree climbing class that has not filled to capacity. We learn how to climb into large trees — ones where you cannot reach the first branch. We also teach how to move around, go from tree to tree, and come back down safely using ropes and harnesses and various kinds of tree climbing tools.
Holton said Cornell requires physical education, and many students prefer his tree-climbing course to alternatives including bowling or skeet shooting.
“The highlight of our local class is an overnight in the trees,” he said. “We also go to Costa Rica for climbing in the jungle.”
Lookie here — The College that Obama attended has a course called Stupidity.
You might be stupid yourself to dish out nearly $5,000 for this oldie but goodie that has been taught a Los Angeles’ Occidental College for years. The course description is hard to beat, saying stupidity “makes itself felt in political life ranging from the presidency to Beavis and Butthead.”
“Stupidity is neither ignorance nor organicity,” the description reads — and if you can understand that, you probably won’t end up being dissected in the course.
It costs $39,000 a year to attend Occidental, or about $4,875 per class.
How about a course on STUPIDITY?
Yup, we have one for you!
Stupidity
You might be stupid yourself to dish out nearly $5,000 for this oldie but goodie that has been taught a Los Angeles’ Occidental College for years. The course description is hard to beat, saying stupidity “makes itself felt in political life ranging from the presidency to Beavis and Butthead.”
“Stupidity is neither ignorance nor organicity,” the description reads — and if you can understand that, you probably won’t end up being dissected in the course.
It costs $39,000 a year to attend Occidental, or about $4,875 per class.
If you have a burning passion for Zombie, then this is the course for you!
Zombies!
“What is it about the idea of a zombie that is so deeply unsettling,” asks a $638.25 course on offer in the English department at Ole Miss.
In the class, “The Living and the Un-Dead,” students will watch zombie films, read zombie books and write a zombie research paper — which could leave zonked out college kids pulling all-nighters feeling pretty sympathetic to the living dead.
Close these courses, expell any student who signed up for them, and increase the math and science faculty.
“heteronormative”.
Man somebody is going to eventually get his peepee wacked using a term that I am sure is considered a slur in the gay population.
This is Maddening—whatever happened to good old fashioned useful courses like basketweaving?
So...they're starting from the present and going back in time I see.
...stupidity "makes itself felt in political life ranging from the presidency to Beavis and Butthead."Now that The OneTM has ascended to the presidency, that description could be deemed racist.
BUMP
The maple syrup one looked legitimate. I mean, we could always use a few people who know how to make that stuff.
Otherwise, pretty nutty.
At my university you can take courses called “Chocolate Science” and “Beer and Wine in Western Culture.” There are also majors in Turfgrass Science and Meat Sciences.
Reminds me of junior high kids and one goof off asks incessant and inane questions to try to throw the teacher off topic (some fall for it) and get some laughs.
Want to try out this new course at Oberlin College? For a hefty $4,950 you'll get to examine why "only citizens ... 'get' to claim queerness, whereas undocumented immigrants are always presumed to be heteronormative." In other words, you'll study why people "always" assume that illegal immigrants are straight.
Gee, that's a new one, I didn't know people always assume 'only citizens are privileged to 'claim queerness'. Privileged, no less. And why do we care if people we meet know our gender preference, unless we're interested in a date? They're making a nice batch of stone soup out of this one. And now we're calling illegals 'undocumented immigrants'?
The Maple Syrup course could be useful. And the course on Stupidity is quite tongue in cheek, could be fun to watch. And, lol, to meet the right general elective, I could enjoy the Judge Judy class!
How can there be a discussion of oddball college courses without even one reference to The Evergreen State College?
That place *defines* oddball.