I got an A in Phallus 101
THE "DIRTY DOZEN" list of "America's Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses" is out — and Los Angeles-area institutions of higher learning have walked away with one-fourth of the ranked honors (or dishonors). Occidental College, an 1,800-student liberal arts school in Eagle Rock, is the only college on the list to collect not one but two citations for excellence at offering trendy theories of gender, skin color and white-male oppression at the expense of actual academic content.
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The list comes from the Young America's Foundation, a 40-year-old nonprofit funded by conservative individuals and foundations. Its No. 1 slot this year for bizarre class offerings went to Occidental, for a course called "The Phallus."
This is a for-credit college course where they discuss "the meaning of the phallus". You know, even Freud admitted that, sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar... Sometimes it's just too damn hard to mock stuff like this, because the truth really is stranger than fiction. Go read the article and see what passes for classes in college these days...
I mean, I felt kinda bad when I was in college and I took a class called "History of Film". It was a full three credit course that met once a week for a three hour stretch - we would have ~ 45 minutes of classroom teaching, watch a 2 hour movie, then discuss for the remainder of the time. We had four papers over the course of the semester, no tests. It was, hands-down, the easiest course I took in college with the possible exceptions of Basic Programming (yes, I went to school some time in the Dark Ages) or Intro to French (I was fluent at the time).
But I never took a class on "The Art of the Guido" or whatever feelgood BS passes for higher "learning" today...
That is all.
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No need to be a dick about it, Jay.
Dude, you totally gave me the shaft on that one!
Maybe it's for the kids that are hard up?
Well, maybe the media will soften up on this story after it's done.
And these Occupy whatever types want me to pay for their dicking around in college, taking classes like this one?
Hell, no.
UMaine had an "Ethics" course requirement as a general ed. Like many of these General Eds that had nothing to do with my field of study I more-or-less picked an "Existentialism" course out of the book mostly because I'd heard the term, but had no idea what it meant.
Then spent the the semester reading and discussing Anarchist and antisocial writings...you know so I could learn "Ethics".
It was overall a total waste of time, but I didn't feel bad, the school demanded I take a course like this to round out my education, and the fact that the class was such Bravo Sierra, I think was one of those great life learning experiences.
You learned it too. Somebody who is constantly talking about their diploma(s) can very easily be a total idiot if they chose the right degree or the worst courses.
Oh and if they talk about their LAW degree...just remember that's the same lofty degree held by Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Barney Frank, and many other people who need help tying their shoes.
And these fountains of knowledge and wisdom wonder why their funding keeps getting cut.
I like to read comic books and fantasy novels, but I can't do it on company time. Welcome to the real world, kids.
Don't be too hard on the students, Jay. It may be a safe course, depending its thrust . Courses like these may peter out over time, if it gives you the willies now. Perhaps someone conned'em into it, as long as they don't blow it, I am sure they will still be pro-state, if they go to the head of the class.
Someone stop me please, though I am having a ball.
Sorry.
Sigh. I just graduated with a B.A. in music (yes, I have job plans, yes, I'll pay my own loans), and the classes I had to take...
There was, for example, the class in which we had to make sock puppets and use them to act out idiotic scenarios for four. weeks. straight. We were graded on how "attuned" we were to the "artistic mindset"--i.e., there were no specific requirements on paper because if we were real artists , we'd "know instinctively" how to complete the assignment. (Example assignment: be artistic in a medium that isn't yours.) German wasn't required (very useful for musicians), French wasn't required, but a class involving sock puppets? Required.
Then there was the Humanities class in which we learned not to use cardinal directional terms (north, south, etc) because they are "ethnocentric". Required.
Likewise, never to be forgotten are the two semesters of Geography (Required). Did you know that Kim Jong-Il is really a very nice person, as evidenced solely by the fact that he is referred to as "Dear Leader"? Or that Hugo Chavez and his government are "models of levelheaded democracy"?
Yeah, me neither.
I suppose I should be grateful I never had to take "Phallus 101"...might have been a real cock-up of a class...
I think your shooting your wad a bit prematurely here Jay. A cock can be more than just one thing.
Either way it can wear a jimmy hat.
Come on Jay, underwater basket weaving and knitting was tough.
Occupy must have MAJORED in dicking around...
WV- Whanzes And they got their Whanzes slapped on a routine basis... :-)
"Mr. Richard Crainium, you're being paged to the white courtesy phone? Mr. Richard Crainium, to the white courtesy phone!"
Cel phones killed the classic phone prank, but your post brought that one to mind.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Eons ago when I got out after five years of uncle sugar in VN, I went back to school and had to sit through a bunch of anti war commies preach Marx in socialism class. Was tough to get a passing grade trying to not clock half the class.
There were a coupla of us vets in there and by the end of the semester we had a lot of the kids on our side.
Think I got a C, good enough.
wv; cocysca
Not goin' there.
Something to add to the fire...
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2011/10/yes_were_broke_but_leave_the_d.html
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