Our friends at CollegeDegree.com have put together a really great list of quite bizarre college courses.我們的朋友在collegedegree.com都放在一起真是一個偉大的名單相當奇怪的大學課程。 Yale has its fair share of these, especially through the residential college seminar program, though none got recognized for the list here.耶魯大學有其公平地分享這些，尤其是通過住宅高校研討會計劃，雖然沒有得到認可的名單在這裡。

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.令人興奮的制訂過程中的名字是一個審慎的藝術，從一個字pleasers （我購物的一mathy哲學課的基礎上它的名字，僅“至無限遠， ”這在過去的任期）舌扭韻的主人。 This list has some pretty good ones and you’d be well advised to check out these courses if given the chance .這份名單有一些不錯的，你願意應查閱了這些課程，如果給予機會。 The full list of 25 strangest college courses is available at the完整名單25奇怪的大學課程，可於 CollegeDegree site collegedegree網站 , but here are a few of my excerpted picks, in no particular order: ，但這裡有一些我的摘錄推薦，在沒有特定的順序：

Art of Walking 藝術散步 : 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，學院是巴基斯坦人有關其新一類的藝術，散步，該公司計劃如何發現康德的著作可以透露， “一條新的途徑[理解]很高興，顯然外國美學，但十分在家裡，在人類性質：高興地散步， “根據作者和教授肯keffer 。 Maybe the course should also grant credit to health and fitness degrees?也許，當然也應給予信貸的健康和健美程度？

The Adultery Novel In and Out of Russia 通姦小說在進出俄羅斯 : University of Pennsylvania’s Slavics Department holds that no topic is too taboo for the classroom. ：美國賓州大學的slavics署認為，沒有課題是太禁忌，為課堂。 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.學生將學習有關“社會學的描述，現代性，馬克思主義的考試，家庭作為一個社會和經濟機構[和]弗洛伊德/精神分析的解釋，家庭生活和侵性傾向， ”除其他議題。

The Science of Harry Potter 科學哈利波特 : Don’t tell me that Harry Potter isn’t all magic? ：不要告訴我，哈利波特是不是所有的魔術呢？ Maryland’s馬里蘭大學的 Frostburg University frostburg大學 provides this honors seminar, which is actually a physics class that investigates the supposed magic of Harry Potter.提供此榮譽的研討會，這其實是一個物理類調查，假定魔術般的哈利波特。

Maple Syrup: The Real Thing 楓糖漿：真正的事 : Alfred University makes this list twice with its now famous course, Maple Syrup: The Real Thing. ：阿爾弗雷德大學，使這個清單兩次與現在著名的當然，楓糖漿：真正的事。 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.過程描述的內容， “生產方法，楓糖漿就是其中的事情，在我們的社會已經歷了，甚至在今天的文化的不斷變化， ”這就是為什麼它值得一整個學期的關注和剖析。 Students mustn’t worry though, as the course comes with a neat disclaimer: “No prior experience expected.”學生必須不要擔心，因為過程中帶有一個乾淨免責聲明： “沒有以前的經驗，預計” 。

Whiteness: The Other Side of Racism 美白：對方的種族主義 : 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. ：副教授沙質勞倫斯任教，這當然在蒙特霍利約克大學希望她的學生，以“要知道，而種族主義的缺點人民的顏色，它提供的好處，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.通過檢查對方的種族主義-白-我們可以看到的優勢，在教育，衛生保健，就業和白人人民不斷累積。 “勞倫斯的最終和崇高的目標是要幫助她的學生，打擊種族主義，但我認為我們已經知道白人是主要受益者是什麼我們的國家已經提供。

Philosophy and Star Trek 哲學和星艦奇航記 : Georgetown University in Washington DC, claims that “Star Trek is very philosophical. ：喬治敦大學在華盛頓特區，並聲稱“星艦奇航是很哲學。 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?什麼更好的方法，那麼，學習哲學，比觀賞星艦奇航記，讀哲學，哈希，它都在課堂上呢？ “我想請問您，什麼更好的方法？ 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”]那麼，我們不願說這一點，但藝術的散步可能是一個答案。 [薩姆的注意-名單還具有“星艦奇航記和宗教” ]

As for the science of Harry Potter, I read至於科學的哈利波特，我讀 The Science of Harry Potter 科學哈利波特 while at the MIT coop a couple summers ago.而在麻省理工學院COOP的一對夫婦薩默斯前。 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.有趣的讀（買通過這種聯繫，讓我幾美分！撰寫的科學編輯，倫敦的每日電訊報 ） ，雖然這本書可能需要更新，為過去5年中的魔法“科學”耶魯-我的住宅學院，在事實！ -提供了一個研討會，今年春季關於Harry Potter和神學。 Some pretty good material out there, apparently–I snuck a peak at the course’s reading list at the bookstore.一些不錯的材料在那裡，顯然我snuck高峰的過程中的閱讀名單上的書店。

Anyhow, the list is great, I highly recommend you check it out, the link is again無論如何，名單是偉大，我強烈建議您瞧瞧吧，又是連結 here 這裡 . 。