Courses They Should Actually Be Teaching In College

Dec. 24, 2012

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Surviving Your Twenties Without Doing Irreparable Damage to Your Body or Your Dignity (Whatever Comes First)
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Making New Friends, Non-Creeper Style
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The Art of Powering Through 1,497 Unread Emails After Getting Back From That Vacation You Took Precisely to Avoid the Cesspool That Is Your Inbox
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50 Non-Reddit-Sourced Ways to Exude Coolness Given Your Dwindling Pop Culture Prowess
Coping Skills: When Reality TV Is The Closest To Reality You Get
Emerging Household Trends: Repopulating the Empty Nest
Intro to Civic Participation: Perennial Under-informed Voting (If You Even Make It to the Polls) and Jury Duty Avoidance Tactics

Zen Basics: Teaching Your Parents How to Use Technology Without Imploding
Proper, Adult-like News Consumption When All You Want to Do is Read BarStoolSports, ThoughtCatalog, or PerezHilton
The Art Of Wasting Precious Time On The Interwebz
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Post-Limewire Age Music Acquisition for Dummies
Explaining AOL, MySpace, GeoCities, Friendster, and Xanga to Today’s Youth

Acclimation 101: When Nothing Surprises You Anymore
Suppressing Shame and Schadenfreude So No One Notices It (Or So You Think)
Data Skills: Managing the Unnecessary Overabundance of Choice in Practically Every Aspect of Modern Life
Personal Finance Fluency By Way Of Cheesy Self-Help Blogs & Books
Advanced List-making: When You’ve Lost the Ability to Form Cohesive Paragraphs of Interconnected Thoughts

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[...] Ran across this little list today… interesting and well developed list. While I personally wouldn’t need all of the courses, some of these could easily be adapted and developed into collegiate curriculums and most likely go over very well. Although based on some other interesting course titles and descriptions I know some people have classes similar. [...]
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Reblogged this on The Last Year In Crimson & Blue and commented:
I could not agree more with this entire thing. Wish I’d thought of it first!

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