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It’s registration week again, and for all the liberal arts majors looking for yet another substance-less “interesting”-sounding class to clear that 12-point “full time student” hurdle, or a weighed down science major seeking an escape, Bwog has done the favor of combing through the mammoth Directory of Classes- er, well, we only really cared about the titles. Henceforth we present the sequel to the September Blue and White‘s “Alternative Registration“- Spring 2007’s most curious course headings.
I. The Pre-Core Curriculum
- Spring 2007 Earth and Environmental Sciences V1053
PLANET EARTH - Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar BC1150
ON THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN NATURE - Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar BC1172
CHILDHOOD IN WONDERLAND - Spring 2007 Architecture A4651
THE ORDINARY - Spring 2007 School of International & Public Affairs U0001
CONCENTRATION - Spring 2007 Science W3920
IGNORANCE
(Notes: SENIORS ONLY MAY REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS)
II. The Faculty of Flowery Flatulence
- Spring 2007 Anthropology G6085
THING THEORY - Spring 2007 Electrical Engineering E4815
RANDOM SIGNALS & NOISE - Spring 2007 Electrical Engineering E6717
INFORMATION THEORY - Spring 2007 English W3690
DEEP SEA THOUGHT - Spring 2007 Philosophy G9525
SEMINAR ON VAGUENESS
III. In the Area of the Accidentally Approved
- Spring 2007 American Studies G4120
COMICS MARCHING INTO THE CANON - Spring 2007 Comparative Literature: Italian V3660
MAFIA MOVIES - Spring 2007 Film BC3215
AUTEUR STUDY: CLINT EASTWOOD - Spring 2007 French W3552
WOMEN & SEX ON STAGE
IV. The Department of Homeland Security
- Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar BC1256
CHAOS - Spring 2007 Anthropology V3924
ANTHROPOLOGY & DISASTER - Spring 2007 Architecture A4526
CRISIS ARCHITECTURE - Spring 2007 School of the Arts R6010
EXPLODING TEXT - Spring 2007 Earth and Environmental Sciences W3018
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION - Spring 2007 Ethnicity and Race, Center for Study of W3950
RAPE/WAR/TRAUMA - Spring 2007 Religion V3495
LIFE AFTER DEATH
V. Victims of the Word Limit
- Spring 2007 Anthropology 83945
ETHNOG PROB IN ETHNIC - Spring 2007 Anthropology V3974
LOST WORLD/SEC SPACES:MOD/CHLD - Spring 2007 Cellular Molecular Biophysics G4011
RESP COND-RES/REL PLCY ISS-DIS - Spring 2007 Political Science G8609
“CONST & DEM/AGE OF GLOBAL”T
VI. Filed Under Frankenstein
- Spring 2007 Architecture A4596
12 DIALOGICAL/POETIC STRATEGES - Spring 2007 Anthropology V3978
DIALOGIC IMAGINATION IN OPERA - Spring 2007 Environmental Health Sciences P8365
NUCLEAR MEDICINE APPLICATIONS - Spring 2007 History W2900
THE HISTORY LAB
VII. Realm of the Real World
- Spring 2007 Music V2314
EAR-TRAINING I - Spring 2007 Dance BC3000
FROM PAGE TO DANCE STAGE - Spring 2007 Art History BC3985
INTRO TO CONNOISSEURSHIP - Spring 2007 Comp. Lit. and Society BC3120
POETICS OF THE MOUTH - Spring 2007 History: East Asian G8100
RULING INNER ASIA FROM BEIJING - Spring 2007 Art History W3904
AZTEC ART & SACRIFICE
-Chris Szabla
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@information theory information theory made the internet possible, among other things. probably the most significant & applicable field of the 20th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory
@you're my hero “can it, squirt” is my official new put-down of the day.
@gah This almost pathological self-deprecation on the part of humanities students is getting old and was never really funny.
@geez how would you know? seriously, how? maybe can it, squirt.
@One of my pet peeves is when people use hyphens instead of dashes. Come on, Bwog…
@Violeta for shame, they didn’t post the monster class:
Spring 2007 East Asian W3338 section 001
CULTRL HIST-JAPANESE MONSTERS
@dan well, nose training? just don’t think about it.
@Clearly this: Spring 2007 Cellular Molecular Biophysics G4011
RESP COND-RES/REL PLCY ISS-DIS
is the best….
Can someone please translate? SEAS?
@google still works http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/gsas/ac_programs/rcr-crse.htm
responsible conduct of research and related policy issues
@also also that’s med school, not SEAS.
@... I love how all the dumb sounding ones are at Barnard
@curious Does anyone actually know what the Deep Sea Thought class is?
@hahaha i find that seniors note hilarious
@pms Ignorance is gonna be great! Best Neuro class ever! Could it have been named ‘Ignorance in Neuroscience’? NO! Too many words! Stuart Firestein hates words!
@well some people who study in a particular department are obviously not going to find them as amusing and will feel the need to point it out. I think these are pretty funny though, especially since they’re categorized, rather than just weird titles.
@shira sorry, I don’t understand why “ear training I” is funny…
@explique the point is to take the classes mostly out of context and display only their titles for humorous effect. I think. so ear training is funny because obviously you need ears to hear. I guess it works better for the others
@i find it hilarious that you guys think those EE classes are amusing.
@i find it hilarious that a SEAS kid is trying to make a joke.
@ehh you don’t think “random signals & noise” sounds like, uh, nothing? or that “information theory” sounds somewhat like a redudantly titled philosophy course?
@a cc student the joke was actually great.