Now that we’ve all procrastinated this semester’s assignments by browsing next semester’s courses, it is my honor to present to you the MOST …
…difficult readings to carry home from the bookstore
COLT1420Y: Gigantic Fictions
…incongruous pop music references
ENGL0201G: Killing them Softly: Satire and Stereotype in African-American Literature
AMCV0190E: It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Zombie and Apocalypse Narratives in American Pop Culture
…unintentionally sexual
ENGL0201DD: Feeling Queerly
…unnecessary quotation marks AND parenthesis
ENGL1190A: “The Arrangement of Words”: Liberating Fiction(s)
…likely to have emerged from the same DNA
ENGL2561C: Intellectuals and the Public Sphere
ENGL1140B: The Public Intellectual
…portmanteau-istic
AMCV0190C: American (Mass)culinities: Sexuality, Race and Aesthetics
…eclectic content joined by alliterative form
AMCV1903R: Big Business, the Bomb, and Smokey Bear: Cold War Origins of Today’s Environmental Movement
…ambitious
AMCV1904M: Erasing the Urban Deficit
JUDS1980K: Biblical History: What Really Happened?
…enthusiastic
ARCH1715: Building Big! Supersized Architectural and Engineering Structures from Antiquity
…meta
MCM1700R: The Art of Curating
…vague
MCM1700S: Narrative and Immersion
SOC0010: Perspectives on Society
…likely to also be the name of a self-help book
SOC0300D: Who Am I?
…all-encompassing
BIOL0190H: Plants, Food, and People
PHIL0991A: Seminar on Ethics, Education, and Fiction
UNIV1520: The Shaping of Worldviews
ARCH0680: Water, Culture and Power
…heretical
RELS0210: Celluloid Jesus
…epic
CLAS1120B: Epic Poetry from Homer to Lucan
…likely to evoke dread of the future
CLPS1480B: Cognitive Aging and Dementia
ECON0110: Principles of Economics
…oddly specific
CLPS1530: 3D Shape Perception
HIAA 1550B: Topics in the Early History of Printmaking: Festival and Carnival
…deep
GEOL0160: Volcanoes, Windows into the Deep Earth
…extensively titled (this is an amazing class by the way, don’t let the title scare you)
PHYS0100: Flat Earth to Quantum Uncertainty: On the Nature and Meaning of Scientific Explanation
…hopefully not euphemistically about the same topic
NEUR1940G: Drugs and the Brain
NEUR1940D: Higher Cortical Function
…reminiscent of science fiction (remember that Disney Channel movie?) / animistic / you’ve just got it the wrong way around
AMCV2651: The Responsive Museum
ARCH1720: How Houses Build People
…reminiscent of a Magic Schoolbus episode
PHYS0112: Alien Worlds: The Search for and Properties of Extra-Solar Planets
…Brunonian
ENGL2560E: Liberalism
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My advice? To get through the above courses, you might need to muster up …
CLPS1720: Human Resilience
Celluloid Jesus is a reference to animation cels, not biological cells. It’s about Jesus in film. Not actually heretical. (I am by heritage a Jew and by belief an atheist)