From one university that questions God's masculinity to another that offers a Certificate in Transgender Studies, check out our picks for the top 10 craziest classes at universities across the country! 
 
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What’s wrong with teaching students that a whole group of people are evil based on their race? According to the University of Kansas, nothing! This <a href="https://catalog.ku.edu/search/?P=HUM%20365" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course</a> “charts the rise of the ‘angry white male’” and evaluates “recent manifestations of male anger.”

Angry White Male Studies

<a href="https://catalog.swarthmore.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=7&amp;coid=8805" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Swarthmore</a> College questions God’s masculinity, claiming God is a female… Yes, this is an actual course!

Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology

This <a href="https://catalog.wsu.edu/General/Courses/BySearch/fat_studies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">class</a> claims “weight-based oppression” is now a social justice issue… Wacky, right? This is what you are wasting your hard earned money on!?

Fat Studies

<a href="https://bulletin.sfsu.edu/courses/wgs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SFSU</a> says San Francisco is well-known as a city where “anything goes.” Therefore, they offer this class for students to explore “sexual freedom and gender identity demonstrations and declarations in San Francisco in relation to race and ethnicity.”

Sex, Race, Lies, and Love in San Francisco

This <a href="https://catalog.colostate.edu/general-catalog/colleges/liberal-arts/ethnic-studies/#coursestext" target="_blank" rel="noopener">class</a> says it will look at “historical and contemporary analysis of Two-Spirit/Queer Indigenous scholarly interventions, social movements, and cultural expression.” Huh?

Queer Indigenous Studies

Yes, it’s true! This college <a href="https://class-descriptions.northwestern.edu/4820/WCAS/AF_AM_ST/39740" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course</a> actually examines whiteness in four ways: “as the racialization of white populations; as the formation of white supremacy; as the cultural institution of the White Gaze; and as the regime of White Democracy.”

Unsettling Whiteness

Have you ever wondered what <a href="https://myplan.uw.edu/course/#/courses/GWSS230" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticisms</a> feminists have of the “gendered and racialized marginalization and subordination that often mark democratic politics?” We haven’t, but now you can find out!

Feminism and Democracy in Transnational Perspective

Now you can earn a Certificate in Transgender Studies by learning about transgender history and activism at this <a href="https://catalog.sou.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=15&amp;poid=4124" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university</a>!

Trans Histories, Trans Futures

This <a href="https://courses.newschool.edu/courses/GECO6297/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">class</a> features discussions on “social reproduction, the care economy, the gender wage gap, and occupational segregation and gender and globalization.” Sounds fun!

Feminist Economics

Can you believe the University of Mississippi offers a <a href="https://catalog.olemiss.edu/liberal-arts/philosophy-religion/rel-366" target="_blank" rel="noopener">class</a> that “examines sexuality in the biblical corpus, analyzes the biblical writer’s construction of gender, and explores feminist-critical and masculinist-critical readings of biblical texts?”

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