Ah, the end of 2006 is upon us - finally - and we have much to look forward to in 2007, including all the new course offerings professors in our esteemed institutions plan to provide in an attempt to further lead our kids away from reality and truth. The Young America Foundation has provided a top listing of all the courses deemed the oddest and most plagued with political correctness being offered to students around the country.

The Washington Times reviewed the list and had some clever remarks.

As if we needed another reason to lament the state of the world in the last week of 2006, the Young America’s Foundation has issued its annual rankings on the 12 most outrageous course offerings at some of the country’s leading colleges and universities.

Being a family newspaper, we can’t exactly tell you which course earned YAF’s top spot, but parents of high school juniors and seniors might want to steer their children away from Occidental College in Los Angeles. The school’s Women’s Studies/Gender Studies department offers a range of nauseating leftist claptrap, but the best (or worst) of the bunch covers “phallologocentrism.”

I had to look that word up, but you know the word phallus - go from there. My favorite course offering comes from Amherst.

But what would a ranking of the worst courses in America be without an ode to Karl Marx? YAF gives its third slot to Amherst College’s “Taking Marx Seriously: ‘Should Marx be given another chance?’ ” Allow us to save Amherst students a semester’s worth of time: No, he shouldn’t. Next.

Another of my favorites that made the (dis)honorable mentions:

UC-Berkeley’s Sex Change City: Theorizing History in Genderqueer San Francisco explores “implications of U.S. imperialism and colonization for the construction of gender in 19th-century San Francisco’s multicultural, multiracial, and multiethnic” community. The course also covers “contemporary transgender, queer, genderqueer, and post-queer cultural production and politics” and “the regulation of gender-variant practices in public space by San Francisco’s Anglo-European elites.”

What job exactly does this prepare you for?

You can find the whole list at YAF.