TOP 12 BIZARRE COLLEGE COURSES
By Michelle Malkin
December 23, 2005
Do you know what your undergrad is learning? The Young America's Foundation gives parents a helpful guide with its "Dirty Dozen" list of weirdest courses in America's institutions of higher (sic) learning, including:
* Occidental College's "The Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie: Race and Popular Culture in the United States," in which students explore ways in which "scientific racism has been put to use in the making of Barbie."
* Occidental College also offers a course in Stupidity, which compares the American presidency to Beavis and Butthead.
* Johns Hopkins' "rock 'n' roll" class about ancient Egypt offered a slide show of Egyptian women "vomiting on each other."
• In "The Psychology of the Lesbian Experience," students at the University of California at Los Angeles review "various aspects of lesbian experience," including "the impact of heterosexism/stigma."
• Of Harvard's "Marxist Concepts of Racism," Mr. Mattera said, "Karl Marx didn't say much on racism or sexism, but leave it to a left-wing professor to come up with something."
* Alfred University’s Nip, Tuck, Perm, Pierce, and Tattoo: Adventures with Embodied Culture, mostly made up of women, encourages students to think about the meaning behind “teeth whitening, tanning, shaving, and hair dyeing.” Special projects include visiting a tattoo-and-piercing studio and watching Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bodybuilding film, Pumping Iron.
Other classes named to the list included Amherst College's "Taking Marx Seriously: Should Marx be given yet another chance?"; Brown University's "Black Lavender: A Study of Black Gay and Lesbian Plays"; and the University of Michigan's "Topics of Literary Studies: Ancient Greek/Modern Gay Sexuality."
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