From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Collision courses

If you need a class that'll get your pulse racing -- or at least won't make you crash -- check out these subjects.

August 30 2006

As dedicated as most colleges and universities are to expanding students' minds and giving them a fuller understanding of the world around them, the majority of the courses they offer are, let's face it, flat-out freakin' boring. Does anybody really like to study macroeconomics? Seventeenth-century literary theory? Or, horror of horrors, statistics? However, South Florida's institutions of higher learning offer at least a few courses the titles of which alone pique our interest. Some of the following may simply be extra-curricular classes students take to lighten their course loads, but we're tempted to go back to school just to enroll in them.

University of Miami

DAN1021: Stretching and body work

This course has no prerequisite and does not require note-taking. But you will do plenty of stretching.

PHI110: Critical thinking

Basically, this course is about arguing.

ART262: Intro to the wheel

The pottery wheel, that is. The class is currently full. Prerequisite: The movie Ghost.

Florida Atlantic University

WWP107: Women, war and peace-building

What could be better than learning about women, war and peace?

Florida International University

POT4309: Sex, power and politics

Guest speakers could include Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson and Rudolph Giuliani.

Nova Southeastern University

CRJU3100: Juvenile delinquency

Warning: Students will receive no credit for time served in juvenile detention.

HUMN1000G: Shelley's Frankenstein

Bring your own parts.

HUMN4310: The vampire

This class is for people who read Anne Rice, watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer and listen to Say Hi To Your Mom's new vampire-themed CD. Dress code: Turtlenecks.

Lynn University

CRJ405: Terrorism

Suicide bombers receive 72 virgins and an automatic A.

ENG203: Studies in drama

This class has nothing to do with HBO's Entourage.

Barry University

COM412: Persuasion

This class is a prerequisite to COM413: Persistence.

Palm Beach Community College

SYG2361: Death and dying

No, this is not a how-to course.

HUS0806: Suicide prevention

Prerequisite: Death and dying.

HUS0063: Multiple-personality miracle

The class is full and includes only one student.