Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Dave Wilton]

I would guess "Darkness at Noon" is art history, due to the slide
presentations characteristic of the course,  a.k.a. "Art in the Dark."

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>>From a recent P. J. O'Rourke essay:

http://weeklystandard.com/articles/plague-%E2%80%98a%E2%80%99-students

" We sit once more packed into the vast, dreary confines of a freshman
survey course-"Rocks for Jocks," "Nuts and Sluts," "Darkness at Noon." "

I recognize "Rocks for Jocks" as a derisive name for Geology 101 in the
form of a crip course which would be an easy elective "A".  But I don't
get the other references.  Context would seem to indicate that they,
too, are crip courses.  What are they?


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