Just over two years ago, Harvard gave us the Program in General Education; with titles that are borderline absurd, the courses keep on giving. Post-shopping week, exercise your sense of whimsy and play with some of the coursebook’s most esteemed offerings. If you thought taking Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 16: Real-Life Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery) would help you prepare for your future in finance, imagine how Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 16: ORGY Statistics: Your Chance for SEX (or Misery) could help you move up the corporate ladder (and down on your boss).
Words extracted from the actual Gen Ed courses that follow:
Beyond
Citizen
Bible
Avant-Garde
God
Gender
Evolutionary
Yiddish
Sex
Chants
Fat
Prophet
Real-Life
Revolution
Theism
Happiness
God
United States
Permitted
Orgy
Gregorian
Sacred-Secular
Russian
Brontosaurus
Unity
Big Bang
Koreas
Race
Example:
Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 16: ORGY Statistics: Your Chance for SEX (or Misery)
Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 32: ______ and Reaction: The Rise and Fall of the _______ ________
Culture and Belief 12: For the Love of ____ and His ______: Religion, Literature, and the Arts in Muslim Cultures
Culture and Belief 13: The Contested ______: The ______ Dance
Culture and Belief 24: _______ _______
Culture and Belief 43: The World of ______
Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 14: _____ Chance
Ethical Reasoning 15: “If There is No ______, All is _______:” _____ and Moral Reasoning
Science of Living Systems 18: _______ Biology: _______, Survival, and the _____ of Species
Science of the Physical Universe 22: The ____ of Science: From the _____ to the _______ and _______
Societies of the World 27: The Two ______
United States in the World 26: Sex and the ______: _____, _______, and Belonging in the _______
