Quiz: Is this a real college course or something we just made up?
LatestCollege has always been a magical time, when you can shed the shackles of a high school curriculum and pursue an education of your choosing. Goodbye, algebra and history. Hello, introduction to string theory and modern art.
But lately it seems colleges are offering an even more diverse range of courses. So diverse that it’s becoming hard to tell the joke classes from the real ones.
Ahead of the spring semester, we put together a list of real classes you can take, and ones that don’t exist (for now). Can you tell the difference?
Here’s where you can take the none-fake classes:
University of California, Irvine
Rensselaer Polytechnic University
Danielle Wiener-Bronner is a news reporter.
Fidel Martinez is an editor at Fusion.net. He’s also a Texas native and a lifelong El Tri fan.