<p>"Think you've heard it all about out-of-touch academics? Here are some new courses that you don't see at most schools, from the politically charged to fun classes about pop culture." Philosophy of Star Trek? Radical Thought from Karl Marx to George Bush? ...</p>
<p>Oddball</a> 101: The 11 Wackiest College Courses of Fall 2009 - FOXNews.com</p>
<p>I don’t see what’s wacky about Radical Thought from Karl Marx to George Bush (other than the argument over whether Bush actually is radical, I suppose). A class about radicle thought seems like it could be a fairly standard philosophy, government, or even history class. </p>
<p>In fact, I think many of these classes aren’t that out there/just have provocative titles. And some need to be taken in context – while video game studies COULD be really dumb, my bet is at MIT you learn a lot about programming or how a game is constructed. In general, I think lists like these tend to look at the classes really shallowly.</p>
<p>And tree climbing sounds awesome!</p>
<p>I didn’t think these were that crazy, either. Harry Potter may not be a literary masterpiece (depending on what camp you’re on), but you’d be stupid to say it wasn’t a huge factor on our generation. Why not study it?</p>
<p>Arguing with Judge Judy?! I love it. I wish I could take that.</p>
<p>The only one there that sounded remotely interesting was tree climbing. </p>
<p>We have a few Harry Potter classes and female sexuality classes, they’re not that special. The rest sound boring, not that creative.</p>
<p>WHAT?! Some of these courses cost $4,000?</p>
<p>I’d hardly trust FOX to have a clue about pedagogy. Someday these over-exploitive, surface-skimming bozos will wake up and comprehend that critical thinking is fostered through the form of inquiry, not the content. Perhaps FOX should attend Oxidental and explore Stupidity 101, since they so often resemble that remark.</p>
<p>^^most of them do :|</p>
<p>“Female Sexuality-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.”
LOL.</p>
<p>Well, with tuition at around $20,000 to $40,000, yes, those classes cost that much.</p>
<p>philosophy of star trek? omg why can’t i go to georgetown</p>
<p>I’m sad that my college’s “Psychology of South Park” class didn’t make it. :< Unfortunately it’s limited to freshman living in a specific dorm anyway.</p>
<p>I would so take the tree climbing class. :B</p>
<p>I took a class about zombies. It’s really not that weird.</p>
<p>Lafayette has a class on “jewish humor”</p>
<p>There is a class at my college that analyzes the book “Twilight.” When I first saw it on the courses list I was like huh? It’s not even deep enough to be analyzed! At the very least get something like Harry Potter, which is readable and more meaningful…</p>
<p>Twilight says more about gender roles, sexuality, marriage, etc than Harry Potter says about anything, and I happen to think that Twilight is the worst thing to happen to YA fiction.</p>
<p>That being said, I don’t find these courses to be odd in anyway.</p>
<p>“Philosophy of Star Trek”</p>
<p>I do not care if it is 4k. WANT WANT WANT WANNTTT!!!</p>
<p>we have “black masculinity”</p>
<p>My college has had a Harry Potter class for four years now that sounds pretty similar to the one listed, and it was one of my favorite classes I’ve taken, we had a lot of good discussions.</p>
<p>“I don’t see what’s wacky about Radical Thought from Karl Marx to George Bush (other than the argument over whether Bush actually is radical, I suppose).”</p>
<p>No, it’s wacky because W isn’t capable of thought. Certainly not serious, original thought.</p>
<p>I want to do TREE CLIMBING!</p>
<p>And they get to go to Costa Rica to climb trees?!</p>
<p>JEALOUS.</p>