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20 Completely Ridiculous College Courses Being Offered At U.S. Universities

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Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economc Collapse blog,

Would you like to know what America's young people are actually learning while they are away at college?  It isn't pretty.  Yes, there are some very highly technical fields where students are being taught some very important skills, but for the most part U.S. college students are learning very little that they will actually use out in the real world when they graduate.  Some of the college courses listed below are funny, others are truly bizarre, others are just plain outrageous, but all of them are a waste of money.  If we are going to continue to have a system where we insist that our young people invest several years of their lives and tens of thousands of dollars getting a "college education", they might as well be learning some useful skills in the process.  This is especially true considering how much student loan debt many of our young people are piling up.  Sadly, the truth is that right now college education in the United States is a total joke.  I know - I spent eight years in the system.  Most college courses are so easy that they could be passed by the family dog, and many of these courses "study" some of the most absurd things imaginable.

Listed below are 20 completely ridiculous college courses being offered at U.S. universities.  The description following each course title either comes directly from the official course description or from a news story about the course...

1. "What If Harry Potter Is Real?" (Appalachian State University) - This course will engage students with questions about the very nature of history. Who decides what history is? Who decides how it is used or mis-used? How does this use or misuse affect us? How can the historical imagination inform literature and fantasy? How can fantasy reshape how we look at history? The Harry Potter novels and films are fertile ground for exploring all of these deeper questions. By looking at the actual geography of the novels, real and imagined historical events portrayed in the novels, the reactions of scholars in all the social sciences to the novels, and the world-wide frenzy inspired by them, students will examine issues of race, class, gender, time, place, the uses of space and movement, the role of multiculturalism in history as well as how to read a novel and how to read scholarly essays to get the most out of them.

2. "God, Sex, Chocolate: Desire and the Spiritual Path" (UC San Diego) - Who shapes our desire? Who suffers for it? Do we control our desire or does desire control us? When we yield to desire, do we become more fully ourselves or must we deny it to find an authentic identity beneath? How have religious & philosophical approaches dealt with the problem of desire?

3. "GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity" (The University Of Virginia) - In Graduate Arts & Sciences student Christa Romanosky's ongoing ENWR 1510 class, "GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity," students analyze how the musician pushes social boundaries with her work. For this introductory course to argumentative essay writing, Romanosky chose the Lady Gaga theme to establish an engaging framework for critical analysis.

4. "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame" (The University Of South Carolina) - Lady Gaga may not have much class but now there is a class on her. The University of South Carolina is offering a class called Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame.  Mathieu Deflem, the professor teaching the course describes it as aiming to “unravel some of the sociologically relevant dimensions of the fame of Lady Gaga with respect to her music, videos, fashion, and other artistic endeavours.”

5. "Philosophy And Star Trek" (Georgetown) - Star Trek is very philosophical. What better way, then, to learn philosophy, than to watch Star Trek, read philosophy, and hash it all out in class? That's the plan. This course is basically an introduction to certain topics in metaphysics and epistemology philosophy, centered around major philosophical questions that come up again and again in Star Trek. In conjunction with watching Star Trek, we will read excerpts from the writings of great philosophers, extract key concepts and arguments and then analyze those arguments.

6. "Invented Languages: Klingon and Beyond" (The University Of Texas) - Why would anyone want to learn Klingon? Who really speaks Esperanto, anyway? Could there ever be a language based entirely on musical scales? Using constructed/invented languages as a vehicle, we will try to answer these questions as we discuss current ideas about linguistic theory, especially ideas surrounding the interaction of language and society. For example, what is it about the structure of Klingon that makes it look so "alien"? What was it about early 20th century Europe that spawned so many so-called "universal" languages? Can a language be inherently sexist? We will consider constructed/invented languages from a variety of viewpoints, such as languages created as fictional plot-devices, for philosophical debates, to serve an international function, and languages created for private fun. We won't be learning any one language specifically, but we will be learning about the art, ideas, and goals behind invented languages using diverse sources from literature, the internet, films, video games, and other aspects of popular culture.

7. "The Science Of Superheroes" (UC Irvine) - Have you ever wondered if Superman could really bend steel bars? Would a “gamma ray” accident turn you into the Hulk? What is a “spidey-sense”? And just who did think of all these superheroes and their powers? In this seminar, we discuss the science (or lack of science) behind many of the most famous superheroes. Even more amazing, we will discuss what kind of superheroes might be imagined using our current scientific understanding.

8. "Learning From YouTube" (Pitzer College) - About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments.  Class lessons also are posted and students are encouraged to post videos. One class member, for instance, posted a 1:36-minute video of himself juggling.

9. "Arguing with Judge Judy" (UC Berkeley) - TV "Judge" shows have become extremely popular in the last 3-5 years. A fascinating aspect of these shows from a rhetorical point of view is the number of arguments made by the litigants that are utterly illogical, or perversions of standard logic, and yet are used over and over again. For example, when asked "Did you hit the plaintiff?" respondents often say, "If I woulda hit him, he'd be dead!" This reply avoids answering "yes" or "no" by presenting a perverted form of the logical strategy called "a fortiori" argument ["from the stronger"] in Latin. The seminar will be concerned with identifying such apparently popular logical fallacies on "Judge Judy" and "The People's Court" and discussing why such strategies are so widespread. It is NOT a course about law or "legal reasoning." Students who are interested in logic, argument, TV, and American popular culture will probably be interested in this course. I emphasize that it is NOT about the application of law or the operations of the court system in general.

10. "Elvis As Anthology" (The University Of Iowa) - The class, “Elvis as Anthology,” focuses on Presley’s relationship to African American history, social change, and aesthetics. It focuses not just on Elvis, but on other artists who inspired him and whom he inspired.

11. "The Feminist Critique Of Christianity" (The University Of Pennsylvania) - An overview of the past decades of feminist scholarship about Christian and post-Christian historians and theologians who offer a feminist perspective on traditional Christian theology and practice. This course is a critical overview of this material, presented with a summary of Christian biblical studies, history and theology, and with a special interest in constructive attempts at creating a spiritual tradition with women's experience at the center.

12. "Zombies In Popular Media" (Columbia College) - This course explores the history, significance, and representation of the zombie as a figure in horror and fantasy texts. Instruction follows an intense schedule, using critical theory and source media (literature, comics, and films) to spur discussion and exploration of the figure's many incarnations. Daily assignments focus on reflection and commentary, while final projects foster thoughtful connections between student disciplines and the figure of the zombie.

13. "Far Side Entomology" (Oregon State) - For the last 20 years, a scientist at Oregon State University has used Gary Larson's cartoons as a teaching tool. The result has been a generation of students learning — and laughing — about insects.

14. "Interrogating Gender: Centuries of Dramatic Cross-Dressing" (Swarthmore) - Do clothes make the man? Or the woman? Do men make better women? Or women better men? Is gender a costume we put on and take off? Are we really all always in drag? Does gender-bending lead to transcendence or chaos? These questions and their ramifications for liminalities of race, nationality and sexuality will be our focus in a course that examines dramatic works from The Bacchae to M. Butterfly.

15. "Oh, Look, a Chicken!" Embracing Distraction as a Way of Knowing (Belmont University) - Students must write papers using their personal research on the five senses. Entsminger reads aloud illustrated books The Simple People and Toby’s Toe to teach lessons about what to value by being alive. Students listen to music while doodling in class. Another project requires students to put themselves in situations where they will be distracted and write a reflection tracking how they got back to their original intent.

16. "The Textual Appeal of Tupac Shakur" (University of Washington) - The UW is not the first college with a class dedicated to Shakur -- classes on the rapper have been offered at the University of California Berkeley and Harvard -- but it is the first to relate Shakur's work to literature.

17. "Cyberporn And Society" (State University of New York at Buffalo) - With classwork like this, who needs to play? Undergraduates taking Cyberporn and Society at the State University of New York at Buffalo survey Internet porn sites.

18. "Sport For The Spectator" (The Ohio State University) - Develop an appreciation of sport as a spectacle, social event, recreational pursuit, business, and entertainment. Develop the ability to identify issues that affect the sport and spectator behavior.

19. "Getting Dressed" (Princeton) - Jenna Weissman Joselit looks over the roomful of freshmen in front of her and asks them to perform a warm-up exercise: Chart the major moments of your lives through clothes. "If you pop open your closet, can you recall your lives?" she posits on the first day of the freshman seminar "Getting Dressed."

20. "How To Watch Television" (Montclair) - This course, open to both broadcasting majors and non-majors, is about analyzing television in the ways and to the extent to which it needs to be understood by its audience. The aim is for students to critically evaluate the role and impact of television in their lives as well as in the life of the culture. The means to achieve this aim is an approach that combines media theory and criticism with media education.

Are you starting to understand why our college graduates can't function effectively when they graduate and go out into the real world?

All of this would be completely hilarious if not for the fact that we have millions of young people going into enormous amounts of debt to pay to go to these colleges.

In America today, college education has become a giant money making scam.  We have a system that absolutely throws money at our young people, but we never warn them about the consequences of all of these loans.  The following is an excerpt from an email that one reader sent me recently about the student loan industry...

For example, one woman told me that her and her husband sat down and thought of every possible expense they could when they were applying for parent/student loan for their daughter. When the approval came back, they were approved for 7k more than they asked for…how about ****! Of course at 7%, why not! Funny thing is they kept the 7k, because she’s in wealth management and said she could “easily” get more than 7% in the stock market……awesome! I have another example of a younger friend of mine who graduated law school from Vanderbilt with 210k in student loans. I asked if tuition was that much there. She said kind of, but they kept offering more than the actual tuition, so she took it and used it for a better lifestyle. Now 20% of her income goes to pay those loans, and it’s still not enough to touch one dollar of the principal…so all she is doing is paying interest, and building on principal…like a revers amortizing mortgage. To make it worse, she was able to save 25k, so she is going to buy a house somehow. Having explained to her that the best investment in the world is to pay off a high interest loan, she said I’m tired of waiting to have a life.

In a recent article entitled "The Student Loan Delinquency Rate In The United States Has Hit A Brand New Record High" I detailed how nightmarish our student loan debt bubble is becoming.  According to the Federal Reserve, the total amount of student loan debt has risen by 275 percent since 2003, and it just continues to soar.

A college education can be a wonderful thing, but right now we have got a system that is deeply, deeply broken.

So what do you think about our system of higher education?

 

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Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:51 | 3634791 Ruffcut
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Is that the MC2 of velocity of bullets hitting flesh?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:49 | 3634495 Citxmech
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To keep that from happening, I used to sign-up for 20+ units every semester, and after surveying the syllabus and the teacher's style - drop the shitty classes to get down to a reasonable course load.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:49 | 3634499 CVfriendship
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Weirdo professors are the next big undiscovered reality show stars. Mark my words. 

Please stay tuned after Duck Dynasty for Professors on/off Parole

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:08 | 3634583 BraveSirRobin
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The only degree my father has is a medical degree. No high school or college diploma, just a medical degree.

In his day, it was not required to have a degree to move on. You did not even have to have a medical degree to practice medicine, you just had to pass the board exam and work as an intern and a resident for so long before you could open your own practice. Medical school was there to help you pass the board exam. The internship and residencies were there to teach you practical skills you would need when you were independent.

He left high school at age 16, took some college courses in chemistry and biology, and then was in medical school by the age of 18. Why, because he did not want to waste his time in class and pay all that tuition before being able to earn a living. He was poor, and, frankly, could not afford the lost time, income, or extra expense of college.

He practiced medicine for 50 years. Now we have an "Education Industrial Complex" in this country. No one could ever do what my dad did. And what he did was not exceptional at the time. Only the rich kids ever bothered to finish college.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:15 | 3634628 BraveSirRobin
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Speaking of the educational industrial complex, these are all the tests my duaghter has had to take to get into college:

PSAT (twice), SAT (twice), ACT (twice), Adavance Placement (AP) Exams (5 subject areas), 2 SAT Subject tests (twice each).

And now, even if you get a maximum score of 5 on an AP exam, many colleges will not let you skip those courses in college, or else, have to take a higher level course in its place, ensuring they get a full 4 years of tuition and fees.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:25 | 3634670 tango
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In a way that's not exactly wrong.  My son was AP and was placed in classes with juniors.  It was a HUGE mistake.   He hated being the only freshman and the work was too hard despite hours of studying.  I look at it this way - your daughter is going to live past 100.  Why rush through what should be the best time of her life?  Take Care

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:39 | 3634738 Buckaroo Banzai
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"Why rush through what should be the best time of her life?"

BECAUSE IT IS COSTING A FUCKING FORTUNE

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:41 | 3634972 tarsubil
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It is almost like you don't want kids to become debt serfs.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 20:30 | 3635866 Parrotile
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I'd not be too certain on the living past 100 (years) point - there are a lot of "external factors" that are having a negative effect on lifespan in the West right now - sedentary employment (lack of employment is even worse, as you'd expect), pollution, increases in endocrine disorders (typically, but not exclusively type II diabetes). Be also aware of the steady increase of diagnosed cognitive disorders (diagnosed at ever younger ages it seems although the "Mediterranean Diet" does seem to provide some protection).

Of course, in a heavily nuclear-armed Planet (and one where those who have access to "The Big Red Button" may be more than a little unhinged), lifespan prediction has become a whole lot more speculative!

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 16:15 | 3635098 ebworthen
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Exactly.

They have started to obsolesce test scores, and even Freshmen and Junior level classes you get an "A" in don't count after 3 semesters.

Students are also promised that transfer courses from other colleges or classes they took in high school for college credit will count toward their degree.  Then in their Junior/Senior year are told, "Oh, sorry, those don't count" and have to stay in another semester or year.

All to make more $$$ for the departments, colleges (eg. "College of Science"), and the institution itself.

It is a complete racket.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:04 | 3635460 Miffed Microbio...
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What's worse, when you finally get a BS degree it's basically worthless today. My husband got his BS in computer science in 1981 and has worked for the same company for over 30 years. Today they wont even consider an applicant who doesn't have at least a masters or phd. I guess it's part of the weeding out process. I commented he must be happy to work with better educated people. For some reason he laughed himself sick over that. It appears education does not necessarily prepare one for the real world where productivity and efficiency are paramount. He gets a little frustrated babysitting petulant PhDs.

Miffed;-)

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:24 | 3635517 ebworthen
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I believe it!

I'd give you another +1 for "petulant PhD's" if I could.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:52 | 3635589 FreedomCostsaBu...
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Exactly!!! That happened to my son at WSU, those money-sucking doouche nozzles. They also tagged him at the last minute for a 'required' course he had to stay an extra semester for - "Cross Cultural Awareness." Naturally this just popped up two weeks prior to his last semester.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 19:23 | 3635653 Miffed Microbio...
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How embarassing. My husband got his degree at WSU and graduated in three years. He skipped most of the prerequisite classes and took the core classes in his major. Shaved off a year. I guess the universities caught on to that move.

Miffed;-)

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:03 | 3634828 ToNYC
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I like the way you think, but you go on to eliminate the space of "continuing education" and regular opportunities to share amoungst your betters and peers. Did you not notice the short pier you built? Go Dad, but try sharing your observations after HE got his MD and got it all done and today's college has nothing to do the general principle  of fostering learned community spaces. Now go sit down, son of doctor sans university.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:09 | 3634266 Henry Rearden
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Someone give me a loan, I want to go back to school! 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:12 | 3634282 orangegeek
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yep - industry is the same shit - certifications  for just about anything before you can get the job.

 

that's after you graduate.

 

education has moved well beyond what has utility (utilitas).

 

and the net benefit is tending more and more to jobs that require the use of one liners such as, "would you like fries with that"?

 

everyone is selling something - universities are no different.

 

 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:12 | 3634285 timbo_em
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No course about MMT or Keynesianism on that list? And what's wrong with a little Klingon?

Qapla'!

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:11 | 3634286 Let The Wurlitz...
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What are kids learning today?

Where is "Underwater Basket Weaving"?

 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:12 | 3634288 centerline
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OK, serious answer...

Some of these are complete crap.  A few might actually involve some real, critical thinking.  That, my friends, is in short fucking supply these days.  If it effectively challenges the status quo, I am okay with the packaging seeming goofy.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:33 | 3634419 Bastiat
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Yeah, exactly.  If you read past the titles some of them are good, the Judge Judy one, for instance.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:39 | 3634446 RockyRacoon
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Where do I sign up for the zombies course?  That could be quite useful in the future.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 20:34 | 3635877 Parrotile
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"Down Under" in Melbourne, that course would be useful right here, right now.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:12 | 3634290 killallthefiat
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You are the master.  Nice +1

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:12 | 3634291 Not My Real Name
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Um, you forgot one ...

The Joys of Keynesian Economics and Centrally Planned Economies (Princeton)

Prof: Paul Krugman

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:15 | 3634309 syntaxterror
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Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results (Univ. of Phoenix)

Prof: Paul Krugman

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:15 | 3634313 joak
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You are wrong, it's nr 12 lol

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:13 | 3634297 Pairadimes
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What? No class in autoerotic asphyxiation?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:21 | 3634348 knukles
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Been given a new politically correct title of "Choking the Chicken"

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:31 | 3634698 BidnessMan
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There's Something about Mary...

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:40 | 3634742 Buckaroo Banzai
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"Don't go out there with a loaded gun!!"

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:13 | 3634298 syntaxterror
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Only $50,000 per year of debt for this. Amazing bargain!

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:14 | 3634308 joak
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12 is about the Keynesians ?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:03 | 3634576 Pairadimes
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Actually, it turns out that numbers 1 through 20 are about the Keynesians.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:16 | 3634320 Zerozen
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Took a look at the list and breathed a sigh of relief that my alma mater isn't on there...Praise Jesus /sarc

I bet the porn course is all dudes and has a waitlist 2 miles long

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:24 | 3634666 Umh
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That could be a tough class if you have to watch all the different types...

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:26 | 3634679 tango
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I have to wonder about "homework" and "lab"

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:33 | 3634932 Zerozen
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The students take Cialis instead of Adderal to help them study.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:17 | 3634324 ToNYC
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Culling the Herd by crippling with debt. The new, improved way to Eat the Young. Pass the veal, will you?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:17 | 3634326 williambanzai7
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Krugmans, their practical health impact and how to have them surgically removed.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:18 | 3634327 Peter Pan
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Course 21: law degree although admittedly the loss is shouldered by society.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:19 | 3634330 SILVERGEDDON
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What - no POTB training ?

Should be a couple masters degrees in lying, cheating, back stabbing, war crimes, and sexual deviancy offered to round up the next generation of one percenters, you would think.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:19 | 3634333 q99x2
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Look for crap and you'll find it most anywhere.

Especially here in the financial sphere.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:20 | 3634338 ShrNfr
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I would reply in Elvish, but you do not have the proper fonts.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:23 | 3634359 insanelysane
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Like I tell my kids when they aren't listening to me: "Are you listening in English because I am speaking to you in English?"

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 20:26 | 3635853 August
Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:20 | 3634341 TWSceptic
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Anything to avoid actually raising the kids.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:20 | 3634343 insanelysane
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Invented Languages???  I'm about 100% sure that all languages were invented.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:24 | 3634363 knukles
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That should probably be considered in the School of Sophist Philosophy under the guise of "You didn't invent that language by yourself."

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:56 | 3634543 Boondocker
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Speaking Klingon pisses off the NSA... 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:21 | 3634347 Fake_nation
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Hahahaha. "Learning from YouTube"- that's what I do precisely because the only courses offered at school are ones like "Learning from YouTube".

Next: "Learning from Minecraft" at $10,000 a course. Better save for college, kiddies!:

http://www.fakenation.info/please/minecraft-more-makework-for-an-abandoned-generation

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:50 | 3634788 NotApplicable
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My absolute favorite YouTube channel is Vi Hart's and her amazing ability to mesmerize me with math.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:22 | 3634350 killallthefiat
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I willl be the only one to say this but....

Some of these courses might actually be worthwhile with the right instructor. 

#2: Most of the idiocracy does not even know why they want an iPad, hookups or electric cars.

#4:  Why is Lady Gaga famous.  Perhaps it could be the same as Bob Dylan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqvvOD4bdRs

#8: Since google owns youtube, a closer examination of what youtube offers is in order.  See #2

#11 Christianity has been good for all socioeconomic classes except for the bankers.  Ask women, minorities, slave, the unborn, and children.  Only in India and China do they not bat an eyelash at killing young females.  At least we THINK that is reprehensible in the west. 

#12 Clearly, ZH readers have nevers watched Night of the Living Dead or They Live.  This could be awesome

#20 See #2 and #8

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:26 | 3634380 centerline
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+1.  Like I said, the beef is in the content.  Some of these topics could really have some substance.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:22 | 3634352 dracos_ghost
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""What If Harry Potter Is Real?""

I would have thought this was Colorado since ganja is definitely involved with this one.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:25 | 3634377 knukles
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Now what kinda dumbfuck wiould ask that question? 
Come on, Harry, lets' go get laid.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:37 | 3634432 Bastiat
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Not so fast: I know someone who has "situs inversus."  Sounds like a Hogwarts spell to me.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:22 | 3634353 Rayfp65
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They reduced principle on people that coudn't afford the house they bought, so why wouldn't they eventually reduce principle on the education you couldn't afford? Makes sense to me, take as much as they'll give you!! You'll probably only have to pay back a portion.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:24 | 3634367 Kalevi
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I feel so cheated, math, chemistry, mechanics, electronics and all kinds of BS instead of this cool stuff.

But I paid my loans, wonder how that works out with these courses?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:47 | 3634486 IridiumRebel
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You a sucka den fool. Deez keeds gon get dey ride fo' free! 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:36 | 3634720 Kalevi
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Nope, they will say "Have a nice day" on mandarin for a yuan tip, which they will deposit to uncle sam.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:43 | 3634761 IridiumRebel
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well played, sir, well played......

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:25 | 3634371 kito
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How a red piller can cope in a blue pill world 101.. that is a course I need.............

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:04 | 3634830 NotApplicable
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Why that's Binge Drinking 101.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 16:44 | 3635206 francis_sawyer
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Take the Blue Pill... It's PASS/FAIL...

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 16:12 | 3635091 THX 1178
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#20 How to Watch Television.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:26 | 3634376 slightlyskeptical
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Most of these courses actually aren't as silly as the titles make them sound. I think the Star trek philosophy one is one that i would take. The very first one is basically "deconstructing misinformation". It is amazing it would be brought up in a negative way on this website. Perhaps the writers and editors are as shallow as the students who pick these courses because of the names?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:27 | 3634385 knukles
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Spelling and Grammar is very important, two.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:28 | 3634389 docmac324
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Jesus Fucking Christ, no wonder.

I could teach the Star Trek classes...

 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:34 | 3634941 knukles
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(loud snorting inhaling huffing sounds)

"We've not got enuf powder, Captain!"

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 17:54 | 3635433 Paveway IV
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There were lawyers on the Enterprise?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:30 | 3634395 They trynna cat...
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Dey leff out da Georgetown course dat examine da ebonical lyrics of "rap's philosopher king" Jay-Z.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/03/georgetown-university-offers-colleg...

In 100 years we went from Plato and Shakespeare to Tupac and Jay-Z.

"London, England, South of France
And all points between they know about your man
Konichiwa ladies when I'm out in Japan
I'm a Tokyo Giant like Ichiro, I am"

-Jay-Z, "All Around The World"

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:30 | 3634398 pragmatic hobo
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you know, college isn't a fucking job training center. It's a place where student pursue knowledge, learn to think on their own, and generally strive to find their identity. That course about harry potter may sound fish but it's probably a course where student gather to discuss things with guidance of professor, learn to ask question, etc.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:37 | 3634431 Dr. Engali
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Isn't a job training center? What in the fuck do you spend $100,000 if you don't want a job or career coming out? A place where they can learn to think on their own? Bullshit! All the fucking universities try to do is fill their heads with statist propoganda. Then they all come out crying because they are buried in debt with no job prospects.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:49 | 3634500 eclectic syncretist
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WHo the hell needs to go to one of these formerly prestigious but now shitholey colleges when you can learn all you need to know about life on youtube?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Htf_F6Nmtg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNCIfA6G5XE

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:55 | 3634536 kito
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Doc I partly agree with you. I do think that college should allow a student to utilize creativity, expose themselves to cultural issues and to think outside the box....its integral to forming a well rounded individual.....that being said...it shouldn't be the main focus of higher learning......especially in today's economy...a strong focus on coming out of school with practical knowledge is life or death for graduates...

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:06 | 3634582 Dr. Engali
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kito I agree with much of what you just said, but when I went to college I got  most of that exposure on campus through various groups  for free. I didn't waste my time taking courses that wouldn't benefit me on the way out, and I wasn't burdened by debt. Most of these kids today don't stand a freaking chance with the amount of debt they have for these kind of courses.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 16:48 | 3635219 francis_sawyer
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Are you guys sure you went to college?

~~~

Sounds to me like you went to a 60 hour 'EST' training seminar that lasted 4... oops... I mean "7" years...

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:13 | 3635483 kito
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i think it was college..........cant remember much though.................i remember beer..................

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:57 | 3634547 Citxmech
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I think there's a pretty big difference between trade schools, undergrad, and a post-graduate professional schools.  The GE in the bachelors requirements is not designed to help you do any particular job better - but to make you a more well-rounded person with a little more breadth and depth than a trade school grad would be.  The cost/benefit question is a different matter altogether I think.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:11 | 3634615 Dr. Engali
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Is it to make them more well-rounded or is it to collect more money in the form of tuitions?  My guess is it's the latter. 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:32 | 3634705 insanelysane
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I am with you 100% doc!  I have a degree in engineering but my jobs kept moving south of the border thanks to NAFTA.  I taught myself computer programming and that is the field I work in, although those jobs had been heading to India.  

Anyway, we've had a bunch of discussions in the office and you could teach a kid to be a programmer within a year and if you want to round them out 2 years tops.  Four year college is just a money grab.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:27 | 3634769 Citxmech
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Well - honestly, it's probably both.  No doubt, colleges need to keep the $$$ flowing in to pay all those administrators the big bucks.  But being a graduate of a technical school program, as well as a post-grad professional program - I can say that while the strict, hands-on, "git-r-done" focus of the technical school was wonderful - all it did was prepare us to be worker bees.  It was not going to help you get into a management position.  The post-grad program was honestly pretty much the same - although it presupposed the breadth and depth that undergrad is supposed to engender - so expecting more is perhaps unfair.

I feel like I got more than my money's worth out of my general education however.  Sure, I got stuck in a few shitty classes - but there were some really stellar ones too.  In undergrad, I got a chance to teach break-out sessions, did research for a professor, helped put together a course reader - where else could I have done anything like that?.  Like anything else in life - you only get out of your education, what you put into it.   Beyond preparing me for any particular career, taking classes in a diversity of subjects helped chart a path to living a much more satisfying life.  Some examples would be my communications class where we read Jerry Mander's "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" and explored Marshal McCluen's critique of media/advertising as a highly refined form of propaganda; my public speaking class; my survey class of psychology contrasting Freud, Jung, Skinner, and Maslow; my classes in Philosophy, Epistemology, and critical thinking; as well as classes I took in art and music.

For me, the big shame was I had to wait until I was out of high school to get content like that.

 

 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:05 | 3634586 BidnessMan
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You are absolutely right.  Most college is not a job training center.  And is an absolutely worthless way to waste 4 years not learning anything of practical value. 

Get a lot of resumes with typos from young people who spent 4-6 years at a college wasting time on crap like Sociology, Women's Studies, Afro-American Studies, Psychology, Economics, Art, etc. etc.  Really spent their time on video games, beer, drugs, listening to music, and screwing, but then get all pissy when we are not remotely interested in hiring them.  And now I am supposed to pay for their unemployment.

Looking forward to the big Reset. 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:37 | 3634401 Dr. Engali
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How in hell do they expect employer to take them seriously when their resume says " Majored in Lady GaGa" on it. Do these kids have freaking parents? Where are the damn guidance counselors on this?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:45 | 3634476 IridiumRebel
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The state is their parent like that statist cunt from MSDNC postulated with the lisp.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:39 | 3634739 Georgiabelle
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When my daughter was accepted to her dream school, a VERY expensive private university, we made it crystal clear to her that we would be monitoring her course selections and would absolutely not pay for any "fluff" classes or any courses focused on race, class, gender, or any other grievance-oriented topic matter. She went in with a lot of AP credits from high school and with careful planning was able to get her BA (double major and a minor) in three years, including summer school. At over $1000 per credit there was no way we were going to give her free rein on course selection. Every university has dozens of ridiculous filler courses as well as many that sound OK until you read the syllabus and realize that it is yet another thinly veiled political indoctrination class.  

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:35 | 3634422 jmcadg
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17. Breeding ground for Goldman Sachs employees.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:35 | 3634426 Confundido
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You missed "Econometrics"!

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:35 | 3634427 Nue
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Cyberporn and Society, Going to be alot sticky term papers in that class.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:35 | 3634429 magpie
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I'll take Zombies in Popular media for 666 Dollars Alex, and Harry Potter is real.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:37 | 3634435 bugs_
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Battering Ram Ramming

Catapult Operation and Maintenance

Oakum Based Castle Defense

Microsoft Project Seige Planning Plugin

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:39 | 3634451 Telemakhos
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I'm surprised to see no mention of the University of Florida's honors (!) course in "21st Century Skills in Starcraft":

21st Century Skills in Starcraft is an 8 week entirely online course that uses the popular real time strategy (RTS) game Starcraft to teach valuable 21st Century Skills through a hands-on approach.

This course includes required weekly game play, viewing and analysis of recorded matches, written assignments which emphasize analysis and synthesis of real/game-world concepts, and collaboration with other students

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:47 | 3634774 Buckaroo Banzai
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You know what? That one actually sounds like it has real-world applications. And you know it will be free of any political indoctrination.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:41 | 3634454 Mi Naem
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Aside from many of the silly sounding class titles shown above, college isn't necessarily supposed to be a white collar trade school.  It is supposed to, among other things, provide the substance with which an educated person learns to think, research, make decisions, implement a strategy,.... 

Unfortunately, these abstractions have been twisted by cultural Marxists for a process of dis-information, revolutionary indoctrination, and hyper-sensitization to PC obedience. 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:42 | 3634460 bluskyes
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It's no wonder the loans for these courses are backed by the government. Who the hell in their right mind would loan an unemployed 18 year old $100,000 for anything - let alone one of these courses.

I seem to remember having to get a co-signer on my first mortgage, when I was 21 - even though I had 25% cash to put down. Just becasue I had never purchased anything using credit before.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:43 | 3634467 The Invisible Foot
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You forgot a PhD in eCONomics.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:43 | 3634469 IridiumRebel
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You know the cyberporn one is popular, but probably populated by a bunch of dudes. The lone chick in the class should carry mace.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:18 | 3635496 mkkby
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She doesn't need to.  She's 400 pounds and looks like one of those dudes.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:45 | 3634477 PiltdownMan
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Try management courses at any business school. Almost an automatic A and you don't have to do anything. 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:46 | 3634483 amadeusb4
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Ridiculous because life is all about skilling up so that you can help reduce the cost of "skilled" labor as much as possible until the day that you die.

 

 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:47 | 3634488 Acidtest Dummy
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The university near here has become so expensive that they've opened a recruiting office in Bejing. The Chinese students all have Bank of China credit cards with which they are repatriating dollar inflation. It is a win win.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:51 | 3634510 KingdomKum
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no lie,  in 1973 at Penn State I got 3 credits for a PE class titled "Bait Casting"  -  

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:41 | 3634746 F.A. Hayek
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I heard about that - it was taught by Joe Paterno.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:07 | 3634843 NotApplicable
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Pretty fly for a white guy.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:53 | 3634519 jumbo maverick
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In the old days the carnival would come to town and the sheep would line up at the midway to pay their money for the chance to knock down all three milk bottles with the softball.

Now universities have become the new MIdway. The sheep flock there and not only fork over all the money in their pocket they also go deep into debt trying to win that big prize of a degree.

Most of the time that degree is just like the 4 foot tall stuffed dog. Once you got it what do you do with it?

And your pockets are still empty.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:54 | 3634527 Jack Burton
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I'de like to see a course entitled "The anatomy of Scarlett Johansson".

Now there is a field of study a man could appreciate and profit from!

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:54 | 3634529 Zen Bernanke
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Progressive education at its finest.  Idiots need degrees too.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:55 | 3634530 Joebloinvestor
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Parents, never wonder where your money went when your kid is still living with you.

Maybe you can catch them on an episode of "Campus Police".

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:57 | 3634532 El Tuco
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Where the fuck were the parents while their kids were growing up? Where were they when the kids needed some guidance and wisdom when deciding what to do with their lives? 18 year olds are not that smart as to decide wtf to do? More often their sucess is a result of an engaged parent.

Well like they say you get what you sow

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:56 | 3634537 ebworthen
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Higher Education = Higher Affirmation

A continuation of the "feel good, no one wins first place, everyone get's a ribbon" dumbing down of learning in K-12.

Teach to the test, give you the grade you feel you deserve, prop your self-esteem - and you'll BUY MORE STUFF ON CREDIT.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:56 | 3634540 bloostar
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I just clicked on the Judge Judy one and there's a linked course called 'screening sex'. With orwithout Judy I've no idea...

http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/courses2.php?page_id=1087&p=176

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:58 | 3634545 Cacete de Ouro
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Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:57 | 3634548 uncle_vito
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My kids talked me into paying fir their college education just as I did my dad and my dad did my grandfather.   Set me back about $200k.   Little bastards.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:58 | 3634552 Billy Shears
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Slow news day, Uh, Tyler?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:00 | 3634555 lizzy36
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Never mind the students...how many of these classes are being taught by tenured professors making $150,000 a year?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:06 | 3634591 ebworthen
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All of them, and the President's of said Universities/Colleges are making $250,000 - $750,000 a year and living in mansions paid for by the taxpayers, with catered meals and said mansion cleaned and maintained by the Facilities crews of the instituttion.

Don't forget the coaches of those all important academic pursuits of Basketball and Football making $750,000-$1,500,000 per year.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:02 | 3634567 Lordflin
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These classes, by the main, are philosophical in nature... not necessarily a bad thing per sae... Were it not for the fact that the underlying assumptions are never mentioned... merely conclusions based on those assumptions... namely, that any of this drivel has any real relevance...

To put this another way... society, and by association education, has been reduced to the lowest common denominator... the brain dead idiot who is incapable of seeing, let alone acknowleging, a world outside the one existing between his... and to be pc... her ears... Hence the emphasis on what is referred to here as imagination... forgetting that imagination actually has an intellectual component...

 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:03 | 3634573 nakki
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Glad to see Columbia College make the list (yes college as in Chicago not university as in New York). When I attended back in the 80's and was studying for a degree in advertising and media management we had a prerequisite class called "promoting pop and rock concerts" . We would go to different clubs in the area and talk to the managers, and for this I was paying tuition. 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:03 | 3634575 Richard Head
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I hear "Introduction to Congress" at Harvard is awesome.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:05 | 3634585 danpar
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If students are so stupid to take these courses; they deserve their faith.

 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:08 | 3634599 Joe A
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The only thing they really need to learn is how to flip burgers or how to stand in the line for unemployment benefits.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:14 | 3634627 Inthemix96
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You think thats stupid my American friends?

Over here in the 'Comunistic Peoples Republic Of Londanistan', we have a famous footballer, your soccer, called 'David Beckham'.

Google this simple minded idiot and find out how thick some multiple millionaires can be, we have college and university courses on this individual.

No, unfortunatley, I am not making this spine chilling shit up, google it, its quite obviously after recent revelations your friend.

Idiot mother fuckers following and learning about autistic fuckers who can kick a pig skin.

Is the defination of full retard.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:33 | 3634708 Joe A
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His wife is even more stupid. I never understood the publics' fascination for these celebrity football couples.

Never understood the Spice Girls either: "I'll tell you want I want, what I really, really want".
Oh yeah? I'll tell you what you NEED, what you really, really NEED.

When the Spice Girls hit the scene I knew that it was going to be downhill for Western civilization from there.
Then came Big Brother (not to be confused with Obama), Sex and the City, Idols, etc.

It actually started with the "Friends". If I had friends like that, I would kill them all.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:10 | 3634856 NotApplicable
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Well, actually it started long before that. While maybe not the first, The Monkees are the first of my time.

Nothing like a manufactured, psy-op boy band to get the kids all in an uproar.

Sun, 06/09/2013 - 19:19 | 3640370 dvfco
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There is some college administrator out there right now thinking, "Look at that moron Joe A. - he doesn't understand The Spice Girls.  Hmm, I think I'll offer that next semester as a level 200 class "The Spice Girls and Society" and let some of my tenured friends teach the class when they aren't on sabbatical in Fiji studying culture. I bet I could get at least 100 kids whose parents don't give a shit what course their kids take so long as they get a A to take the class!"

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:18 | 3634635 CheapBastard
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Hey, don't knock it. My nephew is finishing his  Italian History from 1800 to 1945 degree and only borrowed $74k. His minor is dubious though,  Pasta History in  Anceint Times.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:21 | 3634648 Spastica Rex
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If you want to be a linguist, invented languages are part of the curriculum. There are professional liguists, you know. Not that I know any.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:27 | 3635525 FreedomCostsaBu...
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Do you know Colonel Angus? Supposedly he's quite the linguist....

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:23 | 3634659 the grateful un...
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if you're going to pay 50000 dollars for something, (and spend five to ten years engaged in the pursuit) it only seems logical that you are going to get heavily marketed.

Course 1; How Colleges use marketing to extend a typical four year education into five or six years.

Course 2: Students have no access to professors doing research for government and corporate grants. The Grad student circus, where these trained animals who actually teach the class, jump through hoops which annoints them as "employable" after they graduate.

Course 3; Professors which blackball a student who actually knows something about the subject and attempts to refer to their ignorance.

Course 4; Professors who read their student essays to get ideas for their papers. You get a C, they get tenure.

Course 5; Pre-med students taking required Liberal Arts courses, who have to get an A in order to practise medicine. You go to love these kids, they're going to be your doctor some day. They'll be very rich and every patient they help gets an A.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:23 | 3634661 Nom de Guerre
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"So you went to Big State U?  That's great!  So did I!  What was your major?"

{Sigh}  "Well, if you really must know, I majored in Applied Feminist Deconstruction Theory of the Partriarchal, Oppressor-male Rape-system in Post Modern Societies."

"That's...uh...neat.  So, how much does a barrista at Starbucks make nowadays, anyway? Oh, and can you put a little extra whipped cream on the latte?  Thanks."

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:26 | 3634676 Bastiat
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". . . . .and your attitude needs some work."

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:26 | 3634677 dojufitz
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How to suck big titties and watch tv at the same time.....

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:36 | 3634719 insanelysane
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Tape a mirror to their chest just below the neck.

Next question.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:29 | 3634687 Flakmeister
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Yawn.....

Cherry picking a few dubious courses out of tens of thousands smacks of yet another back handed attempt to discredit science and education or in other words, simple pandering to the anti-intellectual segment of society (in other words more than a few posters at ZH).....

 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:41 | 3634747 Dr. Engali
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I noticed it grabbed your hyper-intellectual attention. Thank you for posting a well reasoned argument on why today's youth should be saddled with debt for courses such as these.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:15 | 3634875 Flakmeister
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You did not read too closely to what I said...

These courses are a tiny minority, besides who the fuck are you to tell anyone what they should learn or not learn... Talk about Big Brother...

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:55 | 3634908 Dr. Engali
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I'm not telling them what they should or should not take, that is their choice. Quite frankly I don't give a shit if they want to waste their time and money on courses like these. I do care when they start screaming that they can't find a job and complain about their debt. Once they want to pass it off on me it becomes an issue.

You still have not answered the question, which is typical for you,  on why they should be forced to be saddled with debt for junk courses like these. The whole point of the article is that there is a lot of fluff that won't benefit the kids when they get out of school, however they will be paying for it most of their adult lives.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 19:22 | 3635652 Flakmeister
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They did it of their own free will... What the fuck do you want from me???

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:15 | 3634876 NotApplicable
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LOL, like any of us NEED to discredit "education." It's doing a fine job on it's own, thank you very much.

As I always tell people, college is where stupid kids go to get a piece of paper that says it doesn't matter. As for the not stupid people who go? Well, they got ripped off, as the debt slaves that surround them have inflated the cost, sucking the value right out of the experience.

You may now return to your channeling of MDB.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:18 | 3634887 Flakmeister
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Ah... the Boetian makes my point for me...

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:20 | 3634893 Flakmeister
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Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:31 | 3634696 brettd
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Shouldn't colleges be on the hook financially for taking loaned money from clients and delivering sub-standard products?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:31 | 3634699 rtalcott
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These are great for the business...they are all high margin...it cost real money to teach science and engineering (equipment, labs etc)...I'd be offering the same if I was running the biz...

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:31 | 3634700 eaglerock
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I tried to get in to the "How to Watch Television" class but they wouldn't let me because I flunked the prerequisite course "How to use a Remote Control".

 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:32 | 3634703 Walt D.
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You forgot Economics.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:38 | 3634732 TNTARG
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We're far behind.

We're still teaching Philosophy.

And... No, those courses are not armless. There's a purpose backing it up.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:39 | 3634736 jvetter713
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You could only come up with 20?  I'm pretty sure I could come up with in excess of 500 classes ranging from 100 to 400 level classes which could all be renamed "Underwater Basketweaving"

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:41 | 3634748 rsnoble
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My fav college course was eat young pussy and then fuck her friend behind her back.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:42 | 3634757 rsnoble
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A lesson well learned as now it's eat old pussy and fuck her friend behind her back.

Of course I still look for the young ass that I can swipe a credit card thru their buttcrack.

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