I was talking to Destry just now about a common topic in the Ramer/Abramoff/Cames/Grigelevich (whew!) household: Amherst college course titles.
Becky has frequently posited that course titles follow the format: [actual subject] and the [noun] (i.e. Lacan and the Word and the Body and the Law and Women in Asia from 1801-1899). Following Strizzle's suggestion that I teach Ecology and the Penis someday, I was inspired to create a whole curriculum. Feel free to add your own! The more obscure the better:
Proust and the Lost Time: A survey of gay nightlife in Auteuil from 1900-1905
Conservation and General Mills in Mexico from 1945-1953
Foreign Policy and the Lithuanian Judiciary
Babar and the French Colonial Imagination: Domesticity as Subversion
Signage and Punctuation: Slow Blind Child
Evolution and the Balls <- this would actually be super interesting (check out papers by AP Moller and AH Harcourt from the 80s and 90s for an excellent discussion on primate testes-to-body size ratios as a function of sexual dimorphism and promiscuity)
Back the the books!
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