Top 20 Bizarre Courses Offered In US Universities

Colleges and Universities across the world are given the responsibility of introducing degree programs in their curriculum that would help students to find job opportunities in their respective fields of study. Not all colleges are following them. Certain educational institutions in the U.S. are offering courses that are comical, strange, and outrageous. Such courses are just plainly a waste of money, and do no good in enhancing one's understanding and skills or improving job prospects.

Here is a list of top absurd college courses being offered in the country:

Appalachian State University has converted the most popular children's fiction novel into a course titled, "What If Harry Potter Is Real?" Over the course period, it questions students on - Who decides what history is? Who decides how it is used or mis-used? How does this use or misuse affect us? How can the historical imagination inform literature and fantasy? How can fantasy reshape how we look at history?

The course inspired by the Harry Potter novels and films analyses the issues of race, class, gender, time, place, the uses of space and movement and the role of multiculturalism in history. Upon completion of the program, students will have learnt how to read a novel and how to read scholarly essays.

'God, Sex, Chocolate: Desire and the Spiritual Path' by UC San Diego focuses on who shapes our desire, who suffers for it, do we control our desire or does desire control us and how have religious & philosophical approaches dealt with the problem of desire.

The University Of Virginia's 'GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity' interests avid music lovers. The course examines how the musician pushes social boundaries with her work. Lecturer Christa Romanosky's, has chosen the Lady Gaga theme to develop an engaging framework for critical analysis and argumentative essay writing.

One of the University Of South Carolina's courses is also based on 'Lady Gaga.'

Mathieu Deflem, the professor teaching the course "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame" aims to "unravel some of the sociologically relevant dimensions of the fame of Lady Gaga with respect to her music, videos, fashion, and other artistic endeavours."

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