> Since the 1960s, the Young America's Foundation has decried what it
> considers leftist radicalism on college campuses. Last month, it released
> this academic year's "Dirty Dozen" - college courses it found to be "the
> most bizarre and troubling instances of leftist activism supplanting
> traditional scholarship."
>
>

>
> 1. "The Phallus"
>
> Occidental College. A seminar in critical theory and social justice, this
> class examines Sigmund Freud, phallologocentrism and the lesbian phallus.
>
> 2. "Queer Musicology"
>
> UCLA. This course welcomes students from all disciplines to study what it
> calls an "unruly discourse" on the subject, understood through the works of
> Cole Porter, Pussy Tourette and John Cage.
>
> 3. "Taking Marx Seriously"
>
> Amherst College. This advanced seminar for 15 students examines whether Karl
> Marx still matters despite the countless interpretations and applications of
> his ideas, or whether the world has entered a post-Marxist era.
>
> 4. "Adultery Novel"
>
> University of Pennsylvania. Falling in the newly named "gender, culture and
> society" major, this course examines novels and films of adultery such as
> "Madame Bovary" and "The Graduate" through Marxist, Freudian and feminist
> lenses.
>
> 5. "Blackness"
>
> Occidental College. Critical race theory and the idea of "post-blackness"
> are among the topics covered in this seminar course examining racial
> identity. A course on whiteness is a prerequisite.
>
> 6. "Border Crossings, Borderlands: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on
> Immigration"
>
> University of Washington. This women studies department offering takes a new
> look at recent immigration debates in the U.S., integrating questions of
> race and gender while also looking at the role of the war on terror.
>
> 7. "Whiteness: The Other Side of Racism"
>
> Mount Holyoke College. The educational studies department offers this
> first-year, writing-intensive seminar asking whether whiteness is "an
> identity, an ideology, a racialized social system," and how it relates to
> racism.
>
> 8. "Native American Feminisms"
>
> University of Michigan. The women's studies and American culture departments
> offer this course on contemporary Native American feminism, including its
> development and its relation to struggles for land.
>
> 9. "'Mail Order Brides?' Understanding the Philippines in Southeast Asian
> Context"
>
> Johns Hopkins University. This history course - cross-listed with
> anthropology, political science and studies of women, gender and sexuality -
> is limited to 35 students and asks for an anthropology course as a
> prerequisite.
>
> 10. "Cyberfeminism"
>
> Cornell University. Cornell's art history department offers this seminar
> looking at art produced under the influence of feminism, post-feminism and
> the Internet.
>
> 11. "American Dreams/American Realities"
>
> Duke University. Part of Duke's Hart Leadership Program that prepares
> students for public service, this history course looks at American myths,
> from "city on the hill" to "foreign devil," in shaping American history.
>
> 12. "Nonviolent Responses to Terrorism"
>
> Swarthmore College. Swarthmore's "peace and conflict studies" program offers
> this course that "will deconstruct 'terrorism' " and "study the dynamics of
> cultural marginalization" while seeking alternatives to violence.