Finals will be over soon, and we’ve all registered for fall classes. You’re still obsessively combing through Albert for that last perfect class to fit your schedule? Well, discover the world of the Gallatin Interdisciplinary Seminar. We’re sure that these classes are jam packed with great and applicable information, but their titles are just so silly. Some of this fall’s offerings include: ”Feeling, in Theory,” “On Freud’s Couch: Psychoanalysis Narrative and Memory,” “Thinking About Seeing,” and “Doing Things With Words: Arts and Politics Across Cultures.” 

NYU Local decided to help the Gallatin administration out on their summer homework and come up with some ideas for next spring’s interdisciplinary seminars. We wish that these were all real.

1. Farting As Storytelling
2. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Foes: The Importance of Self Defense in Kindergarten Classes
3. Are Thumbs Necessary For Grabbing?
4. WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING: THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES AND IMPLICATIONS OF CAPITAL-NORMATIVE LINGUISTICS
5. Tiny Jackets: Napoleonic Influence On Fashion and Culture
6. Hey I Just Met You and This is Crazy: Romanticism of Whirlwind Relationships in Art and Poetics
7. Tacos, In Concept
8. 4 8 15 16 23 42: Math patterns found in LOST
9. R. abbrevs. necess.?
10. 99 Problems: Categories and Exemptions
11. Bullshit As A Way Of Life
12. OMG: Invocation of Deities in Conversational Situations
13. Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-knees-knees: nonsense expression in classic and contemporary rock music
14. Thinking About Seeing About Hearing About Feeling About Tasting About Smelling About Thinking: Sensory Overload in the 21st Century
15. WHAT IF THERE WERE NO MORE HYPOTHETICAL SITUATIONS?: speculation as a career field
16. What the What?: Liz Lemon, Leslie Knope and the Fourth Wave Feminist
17. Pics Or It Didn’t Happen: Epistemology in the Internet Era
18. NO YOLO: Resurrection, Reincarnation and Born Again Religions
19. The Geometry of The Illuminati’s Isosceles Triangles
20. White Devil Sophistry: Urban Dictionary and the meaning of “I’m On One”
21. From Rosencrantz to Rodrigo: A Study of Shakespeare’s Least Dynamic Characters
22. Lack of Discomfort At Sex Scenes In Movies Watched With Parents
23. Becoming Barbie & Just Like (GI) Joe: How Children Conform To Social Norms
24. Piece of Cake: Confectionery History and the Bourgeoisie
25. Preparation Ache: Eating Pathologies, Pharmaceuticals, and the Suffering Consumer
26. Human After All: The Efficient Markets Hypothesis and the Decline of “Robot Future” Narratives in Hollywood Films
27. “How Did I Get Here?” A seminar on the Talking Heads and the isolationist movement of the late 1980s.
28. The Game of Life
29. No One Man Should Have All That Flour: hip-hop and kitchen-centric gender roles
30. Haters Gonna Hate: Bullying as an art of expression
31. Reality TV Studies: The Art of Table Flipping and Collaborative Drama
32. R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Strategies to Communicate Exactly What You’re Asking For
33. Tits or GTFO: Fetishization of Breasts Throughout History
34. From Meow Mix to Cheezeburger: Cats in Popular Culture
35. Probing the Unknown: Extraterrestrial Encounters as Eroticism
36. Illuminati Symbolism in Contemporary Rap
37. 42: Discovering the Meaning of Life
38. Culinary Multiculture In the 21st Century: The Dorito Taco and Beyond
39. Snark, Snark, Snark
40. Post Postmodernism: USPS, Polyester Uniforms and the Death of Snail Mail
41. Armchairs
42. Foursquare and Seven Years Ago: Political Rhetoric in Social Media
43. LSP: What It Means For Us And Society
44. Margarine & Identity: Kashrut in a Modern Context
45. Strawberry Festival: How Do They Get That Cake So Big?
46. What Is A Question?
47. Fashion As A Lens Of Brilliance
48. Psychoanalyzing the Boss: Freudian Narratives In The Music of Rick Ross
49. What Are Poor People?
50. Bed, Bath and Beyond: Defining Beyond