Our friends at CollegeDegree.com have put together a really great list of quite bizarre college courses.我们的朋友在collegedegree.com都放在一起真是一个伟大的名单相当离奇大学课程。 Yale has its fair share of these, especially through the residential college seminar program, though none got recognized for the list here.耶鲁大学有其公平地分享这些，尤其是通过住宅学院的研讨课程，但没有得到认可名单这里。

Devising exciting course names is a careful art, from the one-word pleasers (I shopped a mathy philosophy course on the basis of its name alone, “Infinity,” this past term) to the tongue-twisting alliteration masters.制定过程中令人振奋的名字，是要审慎艺术，从一个字pleasers （一买一mathy哲学课在此基础上它的名字，就有"无限大" ，这在过去任期） ，以舌扭韵的主人。 This list has some pretty good ones and you’d be well advised to check out these courses if given the chance .这个名单有一些不错的，放活你一定会应查阅了这些课程，如果获得机会。 The full list of 25 strangest college courses is available at the全部名单， 25个奇怪的大学课程，可于 CollegeDegree site collegedegree网站 , but here are a few of my excerpted picks, in no particular order: ，但在这里，是我的一些摘录选秀权，在没有特别命令：

Art of Walking 艺术散步 : Kentucky’s Centre College is stoked about its new class the Art of Walking, which plans to discover how Immanuel Kant’s writings can reveal “a new way [of understanding] a pleasure apparently foreign to aesthetics but very much at home in human nature: the pleasure of walking,” according to author and professor Ken Keffer. ：肯塔基州的中心，大学是火上浇油其新阶级的艺术，散步，该公司计划以发现如何康德的著作可以透露， "一条新的途径[谅解]赏心悦目，显然外国美学，但十分在家中，在人类性质：快乐的散步， "根据作者和教授肯keffer 。 Maybe the course should also grant credit to health and fitness degrees?也许，当然也应给予信贷健康和健身度？

The Adultery Novel In and Out of Russia 通奸小说进出俄罗斯 : University of Pennsylvania’s Slavics Department holds that no topic is too taboo for the classroom. ：宾夕法尼亚大学的slavics署认为，没有课题是太忌讳，为课堂上。 Students will learn about the “sociological descriptions of modernity, Marxist examinations of family as a social and economic institution [and] Freudian/ Psychoanalytic interpretations of family life and transgressive sexuality,” among other topics.学生将学习有关"描述社会学的现代性，马克思主义考试的家庭作为一个社会和经济制度[和]弗洛伊德/精神分析解释的家庭生活，以及海侵性问题， "除其他议题。

The Science of Harry Potter 科学的哈利波特 : Don’t tell me that Harry Potter isn’t all magic? ：千万不要告诉我说，哈利波特，是不是所有的魔法？ Maryland’s马里兰 Frostburg University frostburg大学 provides this honors seminar, which is actually a physics class that investigates the supposed magic of Harry Potter.提供这一殊荣的研讨会，其实是一个物理课堂负责调查假定神奇的哈利波特。

Maple Syrup: The Real Thing 枫糖浆：真实的东西 : Alfred University makes this list twice with its now famous course, Maple Syrup: The Real Thing. ：阿尔弗雷德大学，使这个名单上两次与它著名的，当然，枫糖浆：真实的东西。 The course description reads, “the method of producing maple syrup is one of the things in our society that has endured even in today’s culture of constant change,” which is why it deserves an entire semester of attention and dissection.课程说明写着， "这个方法制作枫糖浆就是其中的事情，在我们的社会经历了，即使在今天的文化不断变动的， "这就是为什么它值得一整学期的关注和剖析。 Students mustn’t worry though, as the course comes with a neat disclaimer: “No prior experience expected.”学生必须不担心，但由于过程中带有一个整洁声明说： "没有现成的经验，预计" 。

Whiteness: The Other Side of Racism 美白：对方的种族主义 : Associate professor Sandy Lawrence teaches this course at Mount Holyoke College wants her students to “to be aware that while racism disadvantages people of color, it provides benefits to whites. ：副教授沙质劳伦斯教这门课程摩holyoke学院希望她的学生，以"必须意识到，而种族主义缺点的人的颜色，它提供的好处，以白人。 By examining the other side of racism–whiteness–we can see the advantages in education, heath care, and employment that white people continually accrue.” Lawrence’s ultimate and noble goal is to help her students combat racism, but I think we already knew that whites are the prime beneficiaries of what our country has to offer.通过检查对方的种族主义-白-我们可以看到优势，在教育，卫生保健，就业，白人不断累积到"劳伦斯的终极和崇高的目标是帮助她的学生，打击种族主义，但我想我们已经知道白人是首要的受益者是什么，我们国家提供。

Philosophy and Star Trek 哲学和星际迷航 : Georgetown University in Washington DC, claims that “Star Trek is very philosophical. ：乔治敦大学，在华盛顿，并声称"星际迷航富有哲理性。 What better way, then, to learn philosophy, than to watch Star Trek, read philosophy, and hash it all out in class?” I ask you, what better way?还有什么更好的方法，那么，学习哲学，而不是观赏的星际旅行，阅读哲学，散列，它都出在课堂上吗？ "我问你，有什么更好的办法呢？ Well, we hate to say this, but The Art of Walking might be one answer. [Sam’s note–the list also features “Star Trek and Religion”]那么，我们不愿说这一点，但艺术的散步可能是一个答案。 [萨姆的注意-名单上还具有"星际迷航与宗教" ]

As for the science of Harry Potter, I read至于科学的哈利波特，我看 The Science of Harry Potter 科学的哈利波特 while at the MIT coop a couple summers ago.而在麻省理工学院COOP的一对夫妇，萨默斯前。 Fun reading (buying through that link gives me a few cents! Written by the science editor of London’s Daily Telegraph .) although the book probably needs to be updated for the last 5 years of wizarding “science.” Yale–my residential college, in fact!–is offering a seminar this spring about Harry Potter and theology.有趣读（买通过这种联系，让我几美分！撰写的科学编辑伦敦的每日电讯报 ） ，虽然这本书大概需要更新，在过去五年的魔法"科学"耶鲁-我的住宅学院，在事实！ -提供了一个研讨会，在今年春天对哈利波特和神学。 Some pretty good material out there, apparently–I snuck a peak at the course’s reading list at the bookstore.一些不错的物质存在，显然我是snuck高峰过程中的读名单上的书店。

Anyhow, the list is great, I highly recommend you check it out, the link is again无论如何，该名单是伟大的，我强烈推荐你了解一下它的，这个连接再次 here 这里 . 。