Crazy college courses

Karlee Weinmann over at The Fiscal Times is having some fun (click here) with "10 Crazy College Classes that Cost Big Bucks."  These are real college classes.  Example:  "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame," University of South Carolina ($1,200 in-state tuition, $3,150 out-of-state).

More seriously, she says:

But students today often aren’t very interested in those more traditional offerings, says Mark Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory who wrote The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30). Instead they buy into – and contribute to – what Bauerlein calls “the progressive dumbification of the college curriculum.”