<p>We have Religions of Star Trek at my school. :)</p>
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<p>berkeley, and they won the college starleague so it must have helped.</p>
<p>“Originally, I had a much more caustic response to this piece of ignorance. But I realize I’m not going to change anyone’s mind, as no one is going to change mine. Peace.”</p>
<p>Yeah, I was very flippant about it but when you think about the great original and influential political theorists, there aren’t many actual politicians that would be on the list in the first place. If you want modern philosophers and political theorists of the caliber of Marx, Locke, Mill, Hobbes it wouldn’t be Bush or Clinton or Reagan or any Kennedy.</p>
<p>" i dont understand why tree climbing is on the list when its a PE class, not an academic class. "</p>
<p>It’s a pretty legit course because I’m pretty sure Cornell has a PE requirement, freshman year at least.
Correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
<p>As a Biomathematics major in the 1970’s I had few breaks. The best was in my junior year, when my Fall elective was “Interesting and Edible Meats”; the companion course in the Spring was “Interesting and Edible Plants”. Met a lot of girls!</p>
<p>I made myself read Twilight for an English project so that I could get the project done and make fun of it later. Not fun at all.</p>
<p>Anyways, these classes actually sound kind of interesting. Tree climbing would be interesting.</p>
<p>“Does anyone else find it funny how people who haven’t even read the entire first chapter of Twilight bash it the hardest? : )”</p>
<p>“Because it it’s written so poorly, they can’t stomach it to make it through the first chapter. Not really that funny.”</p>
<p>any idiot with half a brain could see she’s not a terrifically brilliant writer. it’s an entertainment book, not a philosophy book, & it makes for a great beach-side read. her target audience is the average teenager, what are u expecting? but i love the books because she sure knows how to stuck u in to that story, & if u gave the book half a chance i could guarantee most of the twilight-bashers out there would love it 
[this is coming from some one who can’t even freaking stand bella, btw.]</p>
<p>There’s one at a comm. college around here in LA called the “History of Furniture.” I laughed for about 6 minutes after reading that!! LOL</p>
<p>The Kenosha-- none of those texts are Game Theory texts. This is, in fact, about video games. That doesn’t mean it’s not academic, but it is about video games.</p>
<p>Oh, and Twilight’s target audience is 10-14 year old girls who are oversexualized.</p>
<p>yea, tree climbing is a pretty legit course. Im friends with a girl who taught it last year, and I talk to the guy they quote in the article (mark holton) on a regular basis. The tree climbing part of class it not really what you would expect. Instead of going branch by branch, they throw ropes over a sturdy high branch and climb the rope using a type of harness system.</p>
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<p>LOL!!! That’s awesome!</p>
<p>There’s a college here that’s going to have an Introduction To Ghost Hunting evening class this year! But it’s like $70 and is only going to last a couple of classes so that kinda sucks.</p>
<p>This article is tabloid journalism of the worst sort–uninformed, jingoistic, sensationalistic. I’m disappointed that College Confidential chose to acknowledge it, let alone feature it. You should be ashamed, Dave Berry!</p>
<p>It <em>is</em> sensationalistic. For example, the very first class, “Queer Mobilities” is paired with a picture of the Citadel subsection of the Leather Contingent from the SF Pride parade this year. The image has very little to do with the subject matter of the course and is clearly chosen just to be provacative. A more appropriate picture would be of queer immigrants, for example.</p>
<p>This Boston Globe article points out that some colleges are souping up their course names to attact more students: </p>
<p>[Colleges</a> find juicy course titles swell enrollment - The Boston Globe](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/09/08/colleges_find_juicy_course_titles_swell_enrollment/?s_campaign=8315]Colleges”>http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/09/08/colleges_find_juicy_course_titles_swell_enrollment/?s_campaign=8315)</p>
<p>The courses themselves may not be so wacky but their monikers are handy marketing tools.</p>
<p>“Sacred Hoops, Sneaker Pimps, and Hoop Dreams: Race, Gender, and Consumerism in 20th Century American Basketball.”</p>
<p>NEED THIS CLASS</p>
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<p>I totally agree with kmccrindle here. </p>
<p>Dave_Berry, what was your point in posting this?</p>
<p>These courses sound fun! Tree Climbing and Harry Potter in particular. At my school the funniest-sounding course they have is “Plant-People Relations.” Made me do a double-take.</p>
<p>Nothing can compare to field equipment operation aka tractor driving at UC Davis.</p>
<p>I think it’s legit to put Tree Climbing on there when Physical Education (2 courses) is required at Cornell. Btw although Tree Climbing was by far the cheapest course on the list (it’s PE, let’s hope so), FOX overexaggerated: $235 for the regular course at school, $700 if you want to go to Costa Rica. Still working on my parents…</p>
<p>Stupidy. LOL We take that class every time we turn on MTV or VH1</p>