I have one that tops those. The University of South Florida used to offer an elective names "Introduction To Horror Films" back in the 70s. It was very popular.

Not as wild and shocking, but I took Intro to Rock Music to satisfy the arts requirement at my school

/The "professor" was a 28 year old hippie.

Freshman seminar called "Roman Death"

2. Myth and Science Fiction: Star Wars, The Matrix, and Lord of the Rings

I don't see what's so strange about this one. Or a lot of the others, either. Most of them are just subversive ways of cramming real knowledge into their heads. The best part is, it's doubtful that most of them have textbooks that you have to buy.

Looks more like a list of required classes to be a successful Farker.

I took Philosophy 111 at Central Connecticut State University, looking for that gen ed requirement. I didn't realize that is was the philosophy of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Simpsons.
The class was fun, and slightly informative.

I see your "Rock Music" and raise you the "Life and Music of Jimi Hendrix" as a 3 credit art requirement. Went to that class with the munchies a lot.

Same professor offered a Frank Zappa class.

I've got a book called
'The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'Oh! of Humor'

Can I get credit?

This one and 'The Gospel According to The Simpsons' are both good.

Heh, Far Side. Nice.

i can't fathom why people would pay for these classes.

Can I get school credit for all the years I've spent homeschooling myself on porn?

Had an honors colloquium course called "The Other in Speculative Fiction," where we basically got to sit around and discuss the "other" in science-fiction books (Galaxy Quest, 2001, Matrix, Them!, Blade Runner) and books (Handmaid's Tail, Flowers for Algernon, Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?)

My current roomie is in 2 course I hate him for:

1 - no classes or assignments all term except a 2 week trip to Texas to tour various environment-related facilities, and submit a 20 page report.

2 - 15% of his grade for another class is to learn how to juggle.

WTF

Regarding No. 14, I prefer the course :"Underwater Fire Prevention"

Mugato: 2. Myth and Science Fiction: Star Wars, The Matrix, and Lord of the Rings

I don't see what's so strange about this one. Or a lot of the others, either. Most of them are just subversive ways of cramming real knowledge into their heads. The best part is, it's doubtful that most of them have textbooks that you have to buy.

It's not even that it's subversive, but it's taking the lessons out of the dusty historical examples and placing them in contemporary contexts. Studying modern art (and not as a genre per se, I mean recently created art) or contemporary literature isn't "strange" so why would studying themes in other mediums like film, the internet, etc. be considered strange?

mfaby: I've got a book called
'The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'Oh! of Humor'

Can I get credit?

This one and 'The Gospel According to The Simpsons' are both good.

The Simpsons and Philosophy was one of the textbooks for my phil 111 class.
I need to find those books, since I didn't sell back many of them

We had a class at Emory on The Music of the Beatles taught by...get this...Dr. John Lennon. I am completely serious.

Oh, and I also took a course called "The Gangster" last year.

\it's a film class
\\very fun and very easy

There used to be an optional class at Montana State University called, "Statistics and the appropriation of their use for algebraic and geometric activities." As a 3-point math class.

It dealt with the probability of cards and dice and the effective abilities of such items used in the creation of reality simulation.

It was a class for developing Role-Playing Games. Most of the people who took it treated it like a serious class and wound up getting As in their statistics classes.


/Really wished I was there at that time...

Redundancy in headline.
Every picture of Lynda Carter is hot.

AirForceVet: I have one that tops those. The University of South Florida used to offer an elective names "Introduction To Horror Films" back in the 70s. It was very popular.

That's not weird at all, I'd almost expect any decent film department to have a course like that.

This topic seems to match up with the thread a few down about how old people aren't retiring and how new grads don't know jackshiat.

i took a class called "Dracula" at uva. sure it sounds stupid but it was really a class about the origins and reasons behind folklore. class names are nothing but advertising.

Karma Chameleon: Looks more like a list of required classes to be a successful Farker.

How to win one internet?
Judging troll post on a scale of 1-10?

Georgetown has a course on Harry Potter and International Relations. I've heard the textbook is amusing.

Link to the textbook (new window)

Oh, coolest weird class I've seen? "Vampires and other liminal beings" Taught by my favorite prof in the universe. I wasn't able to take it but one of my buddies wrote his final paper on Zombi 2 (the zombie vs. shark movie).

"I have a university degree and don't understand why I can't find a job."

JoeyKnish: Redundancy in headline.
Every picture of Lynda Carter is hot.

i took bowling, comics and stress management

steveGswine:

You shut your whore mouth. I had a huge crush on her when I was a little boy. Destroying my boyhood fantasy like that was totally uncalled for.

"Cyberporn and Society"

Certainly not ASININE subby ...

AirForceVet: I have one that tops those. The University of South Florida used to offer an elective names "Introduction To Horror Films" back in the 70s. It was very popular.

Technically, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein: the Modern Prometheus" is science fiction, not horror. In fact, it is among the first sci-fi novels, if not the very first, depending whom you ask. Partial credit to the course because the old film Frankenstein was indeed presented as horror.

brewssuds: "I have a university degree and don't understand why I can't find a job."

not every class has to relate to your major and if you HAVE to fill a prereq. why not take something fun?

I took a class called DotA Skills Practicum. DotA here is Defense of the Ancients, a Warcraft 3 map. Sadly, the class was full of people who took it faaaaar too seriously, and put me off the game almost entirely.

Not a course, but the California Academy of Sciences had an entire wing dedicated to the entomology of The Far Side.

sarcastrophe: steveGswine:

You shut your whore mouth. I had a huge crush on her when I was a little boy. Destroying my boyhood fantasy like that was totally uncalled for.

gadian: brewssuds: "I have a university degree and don't understand why I can't find a job."

not every class has to relate to your major and if you HAVE to fill a prereq. why not take something fun?

You're obviously not in Engineering.

/My "fun" course was History 301 - Technology and Society
//It was pretty cool

this is why peple shouldnt go to collage you dont leran anything thier.

gadian: brewssuds: "I have a university degree and don't understand why I can't find a job."

not every class has to relate to your major and if you HAVE to fill a prereq. why not take something fun?

Also, college, especially liberal arts colleges, are more about training you how to think critically and intelligently, rather than imparting technical knowledge.

We had one at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University that was about Comic books, like comic books in pop culture or something. Of course it was right when i was graduating so i couldn't take it.

brewssuds: gadian: brewssuds: "I have a university degree and don't understand why I can't find a job."

not every class has to relate to your major and if you HAVE to fill a prereq. why not take something fun?

You're obviously not in Engineering.

/My "fun" course was History 301 - Technology and Society
//It was pretty cool

I was at one point. Then i decided there was no way i was going to try and cram six years into 4 and decided to get a degree AND have a social life. Current boyfriend didn't make the same choice, so he's made up for it for being farking lazy and has been in school 7 years. Has retaken calc 3 four times because he's so burned out on it all.

I took a course my senior year of college (currently in grad school) called Computer Mediated Communication but about 1/2 of the course was taught/conducted in Second Life. I don't remember a whole lot from that class that wasn't second nature to me having grown up online... but I do remember flying around a replica of The Royal Mile in Edinburgh and shouting/dancing inside of a bar in Dublin trying to talk to someone who spoke Spanish. Weird.

They are teaching a Harry Potter course this semester in the English dept. and there's been a History of Video Games course that's made the rounds several times... I'm sure there are others.

a shout out to my buds at UCI!
//ics 85

DoctorWorm21045: I took a class called DotA Skills Practicum. DotA here is Defense of the Ancients, a Warcraft 3 map. Sadly, the class was full of people who took it faaaaar too seriously, and put me off the game almost entirely.

ROC or TFT? I've noticed the people who play that game formulaically tend to suck arse and be a bunch of whiny biatches.

Back at my uni in Australia, we had "pornography, art and politics". It was mainly about censorship, politics and the history of it, but we still watched Deep Throat in class.

I see Columbia College (Chicago) is mentioned in the article. A cousin of mine went there and had a film class on animated shorts. Bonus: It met on Saturday mornings.

There was a course at my school title "Psychology and the Internet and the pros and cons of anonymity".

Wouldn't be surprised if they used Fark as a case example.

brewssuds: gadian: brewssuds: "I have a university degree and don't understand why I can't find a job."

not every class has to relate to your major and if you HAVE to fill a prereq. why not take something fun?

You're obviously not in Engineering.

/My "fun" course was History 301 - Technology and Society
//It was pretty cool

Got that right. I'm in Chem Engineering and I don't get any damn 'fun' courses.

Hmmm., in college, I had to take a course that required that I attend a movie double feature each week. We also had to read and go to class three days each week. Beer night was fun! You could take a date. BDU's were cool, you could fit a 12 pack in the pockets.

1) Hearts and Minds (new window).
2) The Green Berets. (new window)

Etc. Discussion. Etc...

Every Weds. for a whole trimester, polar ends of the American spectrum.