What are the most ridiculous uni courses you've seen?

I'm sure we've all come across some pretty laughable, pointless and just plain absurd university courses in our time. What are some of the most crazy you've seen?

Some of the weirdest ones I've seen are The Music Of The Beatles at Liverpool University, Fire Studies (Pyromaniacs apply now!) and Glass studies.

Another weird-sounding one was Holocaust Studies. Must be the most depressing lecture theatre in history :s-smilie:

As a side-note does anybody know someone who has taken a subject like this or even taken one themselves? If so, what is that person like/class like?

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Reply 1

Panda Vinnie

Yale University offers a course in "Christian Theology and Harry Potter", where students explore ways in which the Harry Potter novels espouse a Christian theological worldview; with readings from theological texts as well as the series.

I didn't actually believe it when I first heard about it, especially because it's Yale...but yeh, it's legit.

Reply 2

xoxAngel_Kxox

Original post by BabushkaMan

Some of the weirdest ones I've seen are The Music Of The Beatles at Liverpool University, Fire Studies (Pyromaniacs apply now!) and Glass studies.

Liverpool Hope, actually :biggrin:

And it's a good course, it's a Masters, not an undergrad degree, and I think it's silly to complain about Masters courses as they're not paid for, or subsidised, by the taxpayer :biggrin:

Reply 3

outoftownstrange

A couple from America:

http://www.centre.edu/web/news/2008/walking.html

http://www2.colum.edu/course_descriptions/52-2725J.html

Also heard of courses on David Beckham, sandwich making and Klingon.

Reply 4

Alt__x

Golf management
Pop music

Reply 5

sr90

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Waste management with dance, third world development with pop music and dance with equine studies.

What the actual ****?

Reply 6

username129099

I'm pretty sure Birmingham had Golf Course Management when I went to their open day.

The David Beckham one was a 1/3 of a year of the degree at Sunderland I think, and was on his influence on sport.

Reply 7

AmericanPsycho

Original post by Panda Vinnie

I cannot even begin to contemplate what our world would be like if the University of Yale did not offer "Christian Theology and Harry Potter" as a degree.

The madness and chaos.

It is just unfathomable.

Reply 8

GodspeedGehenna

Oh look, it's this thread again.

The Holocaust Studies course is at Manchester (although I think it's joint honors). I'd love to do it, I loved studying the Holocaust in Humanities at school, and I went to the Auswitch camps last summer and the tour guide was so inspiring, she knew everything!

Reply 11

WelshBluebird

Original post by forrestgump19

Also heard of courses on David Beckham.

I really wish people would stop being so mis-informed.
It was not a course on David Beckham. It was ONE module as part of a sociology / media degree focussing on superstars and the like, using him as an example.

Reply 12

Lintu93

BA International Football Business Management.
Or BA Airline and Airport Management.

Both at Bucks New University.

:confused:

Reply 13

Kt.b

Adventure at Chichester University.

In reply to the golf management at Birmingham, I know of people who do it and it has one of the highest graduate employment rates as it is applying business studies to a particular area. Think it may have been 100% or something like that?

Homeopathy... LOL.

Psychology. It's not even a real science.

:ninja:

Reply 16

GodspeedGehenna

Original post by Fusilero

Psychology. It's not even a real science.

:ninja:

I see you trollin'

Reply 17

OMG TOOTHBRUSH

physics. I mean wtf is the point?

Reply 18

j.alexanderh

I think the Complementary Health one at Middlesex is the worst. You are getting a degree in a subject which has been repeatedly shown to be ineffective. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/complementary_health/index.aspx

They were pulled up on offering the course, and a member of the faculty stated: 'It's perplexing that anyone could consider Ayurveda non-scientific'.