Very Telling Information About The Current State Of Top Notch Universities.

Imagine spending thousands of dollars on your kid's college tuition and see them take courses such as these.

Is this some new right wing meme you're workshopping here?

Or these:

Here are some examples of ridiculous college courses12:

Brown University: “Global Macho: Race, Gender, and Action Movies”

Wesleyan University: “Critical Queer Studies”

Princeton University: “Isn’t It Romantic?”

Rutgers University: “Politicizing Beyoncé”

Bryn Mawr College: “Queens, Nuns, and Other Deviants in the Early Modern Iberian World”

Georgetown University: “Dogs and Theology”

Stanford University: “History of Ignorance”

Temple University: Introduction to Beekeeping

More?

The guy whose YouTube Op linked to is some RWNJ, based on what Googling him told me.

OP, the only thing that's "telling" here is your sad attempt to convince us you're *not* a right-wing troll. The "current state" at Penn with its Wasting Time on the Internet class is neither current nor at all an accurate depiction of a class that does, in fact, have a point.

What exactly is wrong with the courses listed R3, and why are we supposed to mock them? Is it just based on the titles' sounding pop-culturish and untraditional? Is contemporary culture somehow off limits for critical study?

Or maybe OP thinks that a course titled “Politicizing Beyoncé” is just all "yay, we're listening to Beyoncé!"

Having Victor Davis Hanson as a proponent does not exactly lend credibility.

These universities are churning out morons completely incapable of dealing with the real world.

OP is jealous of anyone that can write a term paper.

[quote] OP, the only thing that's "telling" here is your sad attempt to convince us you're *not* a right-wing troll

Fool, take a look at my posting history. I'm no fucking right wing troll, you deranged hysteric.

Have you no critical thinking skills??

This asshole teaches at Hillsdale College, darling of the right-wing evangelicals. Haven't you ever heard of it?

This YouTube is bullshit, but hey -- if you didn't figure that out on your own, maybe you should check that your own colleges taught you something.

I don't care where he teaches. What he's saying has been proven valid for quite a while. Major universities are graduating people who those of my era would have considered dimwits.

[quote] I don't care where he teaches. What he's saying has been proven valid for quite a while.

You are utterly stupid and reveal your own lack of reasoning skills right here.

[quote]I don't care where he teaches.

Well, you should.

R10 is scared of anyone who can write a sentence.

Stealth replacement theory thread

Weak tea. Weak sperm OP

Strong Koot Energy. Old Koots have been screaming and hollering about the kids and their damn fancy larning for centuries. Can't stop, won't stop.

Don't those kids know they should only be learning computer programming, farmwork (NOT bees, dammit), and the Good Book! Anything else is crazy!

I took History of Rock Music soon after it was introduced at UT-Austin and it wasn’t a blow-off class. It was a huge survey class because it filled up every semester but the professor included music theory and the history of music going back into the 1800s, weaving it together into a narrative that told the story about rock music. It was scholarly and really fascinating.

OP, stick with Trump University. These other colleges you're dragging are really beyond your intelligence.

r3/r4 are only surprising to people who never attended college.

The right wing dream of turning universities into glorified technical schools continues unabated.

[quote]Having Victor Davis Hanson as a proponent does not exactly lend credibility.

Hanson has real credentials (a PhD in Classics from Stanford) and even into the 90s was an actual scholar whose work on Classical Greek military/political history was reasonably well received. In 1998 he co-wrote a book with John Heath (*Who Killed Homer?*), arguing that declines in the number students studying ancient Greek and Roman culture were due to the professors' interests in economic/class factors, gender, queer theory, and other newfangled approaches—or maybe I shouldn't say "arguing," because they never tried to demonstrate this thesis with data from those professors' enrollments or the like. They just assumed it and launched into over-the-top polemic—this, from writers claiming to uphold Western values of intellectual rigor! Since then it's all been downhill, intellectually, for old Victor Davis Hanson. His white-hot animus against the Mexicans who work on his family's raisin farm is bizarre.

All will be righted now that Barron is starting " College" ( wink,wink).