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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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