Weird Classes You Can Actually Take

          Recently there have been courses on college campuses that have really odd subjects but still count for credit. For example at University of Texas at Austin you can take, Invented Languages: Klingon and Beyond. This is the course description. You don’t have to be a sci-fi nerd to appreciate the subject matter in this course at the U of Texas focusing on the reasons, rules and social realities of created languages. Then there is this gem at the University of California at Irvine, The Science of Superheroes: While it might sound like fun and games, this course takes superheroes as a means to teach students real lessons about physics. After scratching my head for a while I wondered how those classes would work out. It could be just a really good trick to get students excited about a subject they might not other wise be interested in.
          This could turn out to be an exciting tool to get people interested in history and bring it life for them in the classroom. So under the subject of history, some universities offer these classes. At Oneonta College, European Witchcraft: While so-called witches are still around today, you can learn about the origins of what people thought were witches and the often extreme and illogical measures they took to get rid of them. This one is for the Pirates of the Caribbean fans, Age of Piracy, at Arizona State; Johnny Depp’s kooky but sexy Jack Sparrow has gotten many students interested in learning more about the pirating arts, and this course offers them the chance to take a look at the much less appealing, real-life lives of pirates. Classes like these could spark an interest in history and the covering of fun popular subjects could be just the thing the museum profession needs to get more people in the door. If a student is doing a history paper and actually has fun doing it, they may look into history as a career.
            These classes may sound weird and dumb but if there is actual learning taking place then why not embrace it and hope it produces more historians. 
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2009/10/100-hilarious-college-courses-that-really-exist/

As a side note there was an article about how Thor's hammer is actually real science. http://www.wired.com/2014/11/can-hulk-lift-thors-hammer/   
How many people now the name of Thor's hammer?