The 1907-1908 Wesleyan University Maps to Education listings were released this week, giving students a glimpse at the course offerings for the next academic year. Notable changes include the decision by the music department to include more courses focusing on Sousa-bashing, jazz-scoffing-at, and the-general-field-of-study-known- as-“ethnomusicology”-mocking.

The English department has also shocked students by announcing that some courses may include works by still-living white men. Commented Johnson Fotheringay ’08, “What’s next, a study of the emotionally-overwrought scrawlings of the female species?” A list of notable new courses follows.

ARCH101. Don’t Worry About Breaking That Sarcophagus. Oh Yeah, You Can Give Those Golden Torcs to Your Wife

ASTR232. Pluto Is Most Inexorably a Planet

ASTR303. The Flatness of the Earth: Is the Matter Really Put to Rest?

BIO300. What the Piltsdown Man Means for Our Studies

COL121. Creating Primary Source Documents to Be Studied in the Future

E&ES230/RELI258. Why would God Create the Giraffe? Seriously, It’s So Weird!

ECON272/AFAM101. Slavery’s Over. So Now What Are We Supposed to Do?

FILM101. Introductory and Graduate Studies in “Train Pulling Into a Station”

JEWS200. Blood Libel and You

MUSC103. Harmony That Is Not Evil

MUSC220. The Horrors of Wagner

PHED189. Dueling for Fitness and Health

PHED202. The Negro Leagues

PSYC101. Freud: Fraud or Friend?

RELI101. The Bible as Inexorable Fact

RELI310. The Jew: Whatever Shall We Do About Him?

SOC131. This New Henry Ford Automobile Shan’t Change Youth Culture

WMST104. Making Sure the Mince Pie is Still Hot When the Mister Comes Home

WMST203. Birthing: Is 12 Years Old Too Soon?