Get a load of these bizarre (and expensive) college courses

With student loan debt soaring at historic highs, you'd think college students would invest their precious dollars in courses which could effectively prepare them for a future career -- from doctors and lawyers to engineers and chemists.

But as this list demonstrates, some college "education" prepares students to be Starbucks baristas for the rest of their lives:

1. Sociology of Fame and Lady Gaga -- University of South Carolina

2. Wordplay: A Wry Plod from Babel to Scrabble -- Princeton

3. “Oh, Look, a Chicken!” Embracing Distraction as a Way of Knowing -- Belmont University

4. Things That Go Bump in the Night -- Hampshire College

5. Theory and History of Video Games -- Swarthmore

6. Fly Fishing -- Montana State

7. Physics for Future Presidents -- UC Berkeley

8. Zombies in Popular Media -- Columbia College Chicago

9. Cyborg Anthropology -- Lewis & Clark College

10. Popular Flops: Bad Movies -- Tufts University

11. Philosophy and The Wire -- Georgetown University

12. Tightwaddery: The Good Life on a Dollar a Day -- Alfred University

13. Biology of Jurassic Park -- Hood College

14. Joy of Garbage -- Santa Clara University

15. Disney Features: Then and Now -- UCLA

16. How to Watch Television -- Montclair State

17. Invented Languages: Klingon and Beyond -- University of Texas at Austin

18. The Phallus -- Occidental College

19. The Textual Appeal of Tupac Shakur -- University of Washington

20. The American Vacation -- University of Iowa

21. California Culture -- San Francisco State

22. Goldberg's Cannon: Makin' Whoopi -- Bates College

Mental Floss has more info on each of these unique courses

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