Wacko College Courses

The good old days in collge

I am listing below a few examples of some of the wacko courses being taught at our universities these days. When you think about it, it really is disgusting, not just from the trash that is labeled as education, but also from the point of view of the money that is devoted to these courses, to say nothing of the money paid in tuition to take them. I am thinking of making this a recurring feature of the blog.

We begin with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Campus Reform is running an article on a professor there named  Dwayne Dixon, who is listed as an Asian and Middle East Studies professor. It seems he is also associated with a group called the Redneck Revolt, which is reportedly associated with the far-left John Brown Gun Club. Redneck Revolt has reportedly printed material celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk.

According to his university profile, Dixon has taught courses including “Japanese Popular Culture” and “Breakdancers, Vocaloids, and Gamers: East Asian Youth Cultures,” according to Campus Reform. Clearly, no college education is complete without taking the above courses.

"Uhhhhh......yeaaah."

Dixon was put on suspension over his alleged association with the group, but has just been reinstated.

In addition to Dixon's courses, Campus Reform has also reported on a course offered at UNC this year entitled "Queer LatinX Environmentalisms". The course is offered by the Women's and Gender Studies Department.

I wonder if Bill Belichick would have taken the head coaching job at UNC if he knew all this. Judging by the performance of his football team, I suspect some of his players may be taking these courses to supplement their basketweaving classes.

"WTF"

Speaking of Women's and Gender Studies, I am linking the current course catalog for that department at the University of California at Berkeley here. I think the description of most of these courses speaks for itself. Unfortunately, I see no course entitled, "What is a woman?"

In researching this post, I know I can always count on the University of California at Santa Cruz, America's Wackiest University, to supply an abundance of low-hanging fruit. There are two departments at UCSC of special note, the Community Studies Department, which trains young leftists to become activists, and the History of Consciousness Department, of which Angela Davis is a professor emerita. 

Here is the current course catalog from Community Studies.

Here is the website for the History of Consciousness Dept, from which you can link to their course offerings. It goes without saying that a course requirement is that students must stay awake during class, which may not be easy.

"History of Consciousness is an interdisciplinary graduate program centered in the Humanities, with links to the Social Sciences, the Arts and the Sciences. It is concerned with forms of expression and social action as they are manifested in specific historical, cultural, and political contexts. The program stresses flexibility and originality; interest is focused on problems rather than disciplines. HistCon students are prepared to teach in various specific fields, with an emphasis on questions that span a number of different approaches.

History of Consciousness fosters problem-driven research vital to new forms of knowledge and intelligibility and to meet the challenges of imagining new modes of scholarship for the arts, social sciences, and humanities. The department emphasizes a variety of topics in its seminars and research pursuits. These areas of research include studies at the intersection of race, sexuality, and gender; global capitalism and cultural processes; psychoanalytic and semiotic theories of the image; science and technology studies; theories and histories of religion; social movements; and literary studies and poetics. Seminars are regularly offered in these and other areas of ongoing faculty research."

And to cap off our madcap review, we go to none other than America's most "prestigious" university, Harvard. They've been in the news a lot lately as a hotbed of anti-Semitism. You may recall that their former presiden, Caludine Gay, had to resign last year when she couldn't tell a House subcommittee whether calling for the genocide of Jews was against Harvard's code of conduct (it depended on the context).

Anyway, it has just been reported that Harvard is bringing in a visiting professor (from Tufts University). This learned scholar is a drag queen from Pakistan named Kareem Khubchandani, aka LaWhore Vagistan, who will be teaching the following two courses:

RUPaulitics, Race, and Desire

I am not making this up.

There is so much more, but so little time.