Advanced Studies

I remember college courses like Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Statistics, and a bunch of math courses for my major in that subject. I did take a ‘fun’ course called ‘Introduction to Wine and Wine Making’, which at UC Davis was actually a fairly serious and scientific class, since there is a world renown Viticulture and Enology Department on the campus. Oddly enough I remember quite a bit of what I learned in that course, much more than from something like Stochastic Processes. I took a course called that and now I don’t even know what they are. But I’ve done daily ‘lab work’ on enology for the last 40 years.

Wine is a pretty tame subject compared to what a school in what I thought was the culturally conservative state of Utah is offering: a course called “Film 300O Porn” at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Here is what the course description says:

“We will watch pornographic films together and discuss the sexualization of race, class, and gender and as an experimental, radical art form,” the description states.

Remember my recent blog about the Supreme Court Justice who said of pornography “I know it when I see it”? Apparently ‘seeing it’ is now part of a liberal arts curriculum.

I’m sure glad I’m not a parent getting ready to send a kid off to college with courses like this considered part of higher education. Of course there is the obligatory “race, class, gender” angle, and I suppose there will probably be a whole chapter on white male misogyny.

Quality education does not come cheap: Westminster College tuition is $38,830 per year, and if you want a place to sleep and eat add another $10,000. All so you can study men and women and the other 20-40 sexes and genders, and learn what goes where for each of them. A whole new take on the ‘pop’ quiz…

If that sounds expensive, relax. You can get a student loan, and then wait for the current administration to forgive most of it because you can’t get a job that pays anything. The demand for porn experts is pretty small and the pay isn’t much, but the perks make up for it.