If you wake up in the morning and you look out your dorm window, you might just catch a student running anxiously to an 8:50 a.m. class with their Pi iced coffee spilling all over their canvas messenger bag. Chances are that they are running to one of the quirky classes listed below.
With that classic liberal arts charm, Wesleyan’s eye-catching class titles are the type of thing to leave your family members confused and flustered at the Thanksgiving table. You’ve spent a week navigating the sea of clickbait titles on WesMaps, let’s see if you’ve managed to remember all of them with a quiz!
Is this a real class? Or one that I made up?
1. Video Game and Anime Music Since the Year 2000
- This is a real class offered at Wesleyan.
- This is not a real class at Wesleyan.
2. Gogol and His Legacy: Witches, Con Men, and Runaway Noses
- This is a real class offered at Wesleyan.
- This is not a real class at Wesleyan.
3. Beast Mode: The Modern Hyper-Fixation on Physical Fitness
- This is a real class offered at Wesleyan.
- This is not a real class at Wesleyan.
4. What is Religion? Cults, Cosmic Orders, and The First Amendment
- This is a real class offered at Wesleyan.
- This is not a real class at Wesleyan.
5. From Nick Wilde to Sonic: The Psychology of Attraction to Cartoon Protagonists
- This is a real class offered at Wesleyan.
- This is not a real class at Wesleyan.
6. The Biology of Sex
- This is a real class offered at Wesleyan.
- This is not a real class at Wesleyan.
7. Eating Others: Diving Deep Into the Mind of a Cannibal
- This is a real class offered at Wesleyan.
- This is not a real class at Wesleyan.
8. Cross, Book, Boner: Queerness in Major World Religions
- This is a real class offered at Wesleyan.
- This is not a real class at Wesleyan.
9. Italian/Middletown: Podcasting Middletown’s Italian Treasures
- This is a real class offered at Wesleyan.
- This is not a real class at Wesleyan.
10. Table Tennis
- This is a real class offered at Wesleyan.
- This is not a real class at Wesleyan.
11. Wesleyan and War: The Hidden Histories of the NESCAC Rivalries
- This is a real class offered at Wesleyan.
- This is not a real class at Wesleyan.
12. Singing to Your Instruments
- This is a real class offered at Wesleyan.
- This is not a real class at Wesleyan.
Answer Key:
1. a, 2. a, 3. b, 4. a, 5. b, 6. a, 7. b, 8. b, 9. a, 10. a, 11. b, 12. a
Shoutout to former Ampersand Editor Sylvia Maxwell for the original article idea!
Eleanora Freeman can be reached at eafreeman@wesleyan.edu.
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