Not all courses at MIT are about space exploration or engineering. One offering at MIT focuses on the fun side of robotics. Students can take a course in building robots with Lego. This course can be taken as part of an MIT course load. For students not enrolled full-time at MIT, there are courses available on a special student basis, costing $650 per unit. Although this is a six-unit seminar, MIT's minimum cost for special students is $5,850 for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame
Considering how much Lady Gaga has been in the public eye for her outlandish behavior, there's little wonder why she's made her way into a number of college discussions. For a mere $1,200 ($3,150 for out-of-state students), you can learn all about the social issues related to Lady Gaga's career at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. Those studying at the University of Virgina also have the opportunity to learn about Gaga in a course titled, "GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender and Identity."
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My undergraduate institution had a course named "Women, Money, Sex, and Power." It was actually a Women's Studies course on women and the economy. I didn't take it, but the title sure caught my eye.
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ReplyDeleteOh forgodsake. In other news, Modern Language Association conference papers are masturbatory [give some outrageous titles here], college professors often wear teeny little glasses [show some other fashion tics here], and research stars don't teach enough [insert year-long travel itinerary of Judith Butler here].
ReplyDeleteMaybe a new story idea every now and then?!
One of our campuses offers a course on the Beatles. And one of my transfer students failed it. Pray tell, how do you fail this course?
ReplyDeleteMaybe the student plagiarized a paper about how Paul died before Magical Mystery Tour?
DeleteOne of our campuses offers a course on the Beatles. And one of my transfer students failed it. Pray tell, how do you fail this course?
ReplyDeleteI have taught a course that is almost exactly like one of those listed in the article. It was great fun to teach, especially since it was an honors course with better students than the normal drones I teach.
ReplyDeleteGaga makes the perfect example, but of course she is not the online who started from scratch and made up her way to the top story as there's a lot of them.
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