For parents, this may help you decide to pay or not to pay for egregious tuition fees.  For students, this may be a help and an incentive to determine what college or university to attend.  For government bureaucrats in the education department, this will give you a list of courses to throw more taxpayer money at.  For college and university curriculum planners, this may give you some ideas for new courses.  For alumni who are giving money to their Alma Mater, this may give you pause for thought, and for alumni, it may make you sad to know what you missed by going to college when hard “solid” subjects were taught.  It should be duly noted, that the bulk of these subjects do not favor traditional American culture and values, and do favor the occult and various self indulgent behaviors.

The list of colleges and universities is alphabetized to make it easy to look up your particular choice or interest.  Oberlin College gets the prize which is a Dufus Award!

Stupid Courses Taught In Colleges & Universities

A’s

Alfred University  –  Maple Syrup: the Real Thing

Alfred University  –  It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Alfred University  –  The Good, The Bad, And The Revolting

Alfred University  –  Tightwaddery, Or The Good Life On A Dollar A Day

Amherst  –  Taking Marx Seriously

Appalachian State University  –  What If Harry Potter Is Real?

Arizona State University  –  Age of Piracy

B’s

Barnard College –  The Road Movie

Bates College  –  Goldberg’s Canon: Making Whoopi (learning about Whoopi Goldberg)

Belmont University  –  Oh Look, a chicken!  Embracing Distraction as a Way of Knowing.

Bowdoin College  –  The Horror Film In Context

Brown University  –  On Being Bored

Brown University  –  American Degenerates

C’s

Cal-Tech  –  The Amazing World Of Bubbles

Carleton College  –  Fem Sex

Centre College  –  The Art Of Walking

Columbia College  –  Zombies In Popular Media

Cornell University  –  Introduction to Wines

Cornell University  –  Ghostbusters

Cornell University  –  Tree Climbing

Cornell University  –  Sex, Rugs, Salt & coal

Cornell  –  Cyberfeminism

D’s 

Duke University  –  Campus Culture And Drinking

G’s

Georgetown University  –  Philosophy And Star Trek

Georgia State University  –  Kanye Versus Everbody

J’s 

Johns Hopkins  –  Mail Order Brides?  Understanding the Phillippines

in Southeast Asian Context

M’s 

MIT  –  Street-Fighting Mathematics

MIT  –  The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

MIT  –  Games And Civic Engagement

MIT  –  American Pro Wrestling

MIT  –  American Soap Operas

MIT  –  How To Learn (Almost) Anything

MIT  –  Daylighting  (How To Use The Sun To Light Up Things

Montclair  –  How To Watch Television

Mount Holyoke College  –  Whiteness:  The Other Side of Racism

O’s 

Oberlin College  –  How To Win A Beauty Pageant: Race, Gender, Culture, and U.S. National Identity

Oberlin Experimental College  –  Nuthin’ But A ‘G’ Thang

Oberlin Experimental College  –  Introduction To Turntableism

Oberlin Experimental College  –  The Art Of Warcraft: A Closer Look At The Virtual World Phenomenon

Oberlin Experimental College  –  Knitting For Noobs

Oberlin Experimental College  –  Through The Darkness Of Future-Past:  An Exploration Of  David Lynch’s Twin Peaks

Oberlin Experimental College  –  Video Game History:  Rise Of A New Medium

Oberlin Experimental College  –  Chosen:  Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Oberlin Experimental College  –  The Office:  Awesome, Awkward, & Addicting

Oberlin Experimental College  –  Calvin & Hobbes

Oberlin Experimental College  –  From Ban To Bar:  The History, Politics & Taste Of Chocolate

Occidental College  –  Stupidity

Occidental College  –  The Phallus (For the uninformed look up the definition of this word)

Ohio State University  –  Sport For The Spectator

Ohio State University  –  Harry Potter Literature

Ole Miss  –  It’s News To Me:  The Role Of Media In Your Life

Ole Miss  –  Those Sexy Victorians

Ole Miss  –  The Living and UnDead: An Inquiry Into Zombies In Cinema and Literature

Oneonta College  –  European Witchcraft

Oregon State  –  Far Side Entomology

Oregon State University  –  Philosophy of Phish

P’s 

Pitzer College  –  Tattoos, Piercing, and Body Adornment

Pitzer College  –  Learning from You Tube

Princeton  –  Getting Dressed

Q’s 

Queens University Belfast  –  The Jedi Knights

R’s 

Reed College  –  Underwater Basket Weaving

Rhode Island School Of Design  –  Dirty Pictures

Rhode Island School Of Design    –  The Art Of Sin, And The Sin Of Art

Rutgers University-New Brunsick  –  Women’s and Gender Studies: Women, Culture, and Society: Pop Culture Politics

Rutgers University  –  Beyoncé’

S’s 

Skidmore College  –  The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender, and Media

Stanford University  –  Virtual People

State University of New York at Buffalo  –  Cyberporn And Society

Swarthmore College  –  Interrogating Gender: Centuries of Dramatic Cross-Dressing

Swarthmore College  –  Nonviolent Responses To Terrorism

T’s 

Temple University  –  UFO’s In American Society

Tufts University  –  Demystifying the Hipster

Tufts University  –  The Future Is Lost:  TV Series As Cultural Phenomena

U’s

University of British Columbia Vancouver  –  Game of Thrones

University Of California Berkeley  –  The Strategy Of Starcraft

University Of California Berkeley  –  The Simpsons And Philosophy

University of California Berkeley  –  Arguing With Judge Judy

University of California Irvine:  The Science of Superheroes

University Of California Los Angeles  –  Queer Musicology

University Of California Los Angeles  –  History Of Electronic Dance Music

University Of California Los Angeles  –  The Beatles

University of California San Diego  –  God, Sex, Chocolate: Desire and the Spiritual Path

University of California San Francisco  –  Aortion:  Quality Care and Public Health Implications

University of California Santa Clara  –  Muppet Magic:  Jim Henson’s Art

University Of California Santa Clara  –  The Joy of Garbage

University Of Indiana  –  Star Trek And Religion

University of Iowa  –  The American Vacati

University of Iowa  –  Elvis As anthology

University of Pennsylvania  –  Wasting Time On The Internet

University Of Pennsylvania  –  The Feminist Critique of Christianity

University of Pennsylvania  –  The Adultery Novel In and Out of Russia

University of Rochester  –  Alien Sex

University Of Sioux Falls  –  Finding Dates Worth Keeping

University of South Carolina  –  Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame

University of Texas  –  Invented Languages: Klingon and Beyond

University of Virginia  –  GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity

University of Washington  –  The Textual Appeal of Tupac Shakur

University of Washington  –  Border Crossings, Borderlands:  Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Immigration

University Of West Virginia  –  Whitewater Skills

University of Wisconsin  –  The Vampire in Literature and Cinema

University of Wisconsin  –  Elvish, The Language of “Lord of the Rings”

University of Wisconsin  –  Daytime Serials:  Family and Social Role

W’s

Whitman College  –  Mad Men

Williams College  –  Comparative History of Organized Crime

– Pen

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