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Top 10 odd college courses
These are real courses offered by colleges and universities in the USA according to MSN Encarta.
http://encarta.msn.com/college_artic....html?GT1=6190 10) Art of Walking (Centre College - Danville, Kentucky) -- Students not only read literature by noted perambulators like Kant and Nietzsche, but go for neighborhood strolls with their professor and his dog. 09) Death and the 19th Century (Purdue University) -- Every poem and novel in the course deals with the 19th-century conception of mortality and the world beyond. 08) The Art of Sin and the Sin of Art (Rhode Island School of Design) -- Contemplates the relationship between sin and the art world. The course catalog invites you to "lust with the saints and burn with the sinners." 07) American Degenerates (Brown University) -- Students discuss how early British-American writers embraced the grotesque, monstrous, "not our kind" status bestowed on them by the mother country and reflected their zeal for cultural and physical degeneracy in their literature. 06) The Road Movie (Barnard College) -- Studies Easy Rider and Thelma and Louise, while also discussing the genre's literary precursors, like On the Road and The Odyssey. 05) Comparative History of Organized Crime (Williams College) -- Compares the work of goodfellas from the United States, Italy, Japan, and Russia. 04) The Horror Film in Context (Bowdoin College) -- Students read Freud and Poe and watch Hitchcock and Craven, all while discussing the horror genre's treatment of gender, class, and family. 03) The American Vacation (University of Iowa) -- This course pays particular attention to how American families' varying backgrounds shape their vacation experiences. 02) Daytime Serials: Family and Social Roles (University of Wisconsin) -- Students analyze the plots, themes, and characters of daytime soaps and discuss their impact on modern life. 01) Philosophy and Star Trek (Georgetown University) -- Students discuss the nature of time travel, the ability of computers to think and feel, and other philosophical dilemmas facing the crew of the Starship Enterprise. H-D
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I'd take Death & the 19th Century and American Degenerates
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isnt there colleges that teach the elfish used by tolkien
scary
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man, i'd love to take that.... actually, that and any courses specifically on Tolkien. I love his stuff!
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id love to speak that language it would be soo cool
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my sister takes a course called Feminism in Pornography. they study porn and discuss how the woman is potrayed in the porn. they have to buy porn magazines too.
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<~~ man, that sounds like that would be a horrible class lol. what school? i'm transfering! the closest thing we got here, as far as i know, is a psych class called "Sex, Gender, and Self"
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some of these courses would be interesting to take but really they're a big, fat waste of money and the chances of any sort of career at the end of thema are minimal. in australia and i kid you not one university offers a bachelor of business majoring in beer brewing!
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SWEET! I wanna take that class. I also know of a class at University of Las Vegas called somthing like "Sex, Entertainment, and the Arts" or something and they take field trips to strip clubs.
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that's why you get über-smart and get hella scholarships!
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I think they all sound facinating, I don't think anything that talks about the human condition is stupid or a waste of time...just hit the bong and go to class..Rock On...lol
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so the tax-payer foots the bill? lol
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heck yes!
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All that crazy crap I had to do in high school with learning this and that, Has never yet been applied in the real world....
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