Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Apr 26 19:27:39 UTC 2010


At 3:23 PM -0400 4/26/10, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
>Until it lost its accreditation as a science credit course and thus
>its modus vivendi, a popular elective in the Yale Women's, Gender and
>Sexuality Studies Program course officially named "Biology of Gender
>and Human Sexuality" was offered every year under the unofficial
>moniker of "Porn in the Morn".
>

For anyone curious about the details of why a course taught by a
faculty member in the medical school's Dept. of Therapeutic Radiology
lost (or rather is projected to lose) its science credit against the
instructor's wishes, some of the details are in this story:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/scitech-news/2009/04/22/next-year-no-more-porn/

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