College classes are supposed to be serious. Right? You’re supposed to learn how synapses fire in the brain or Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. But before you tie your brain in a knot, trying to figure out what this all means, colleges want to cut you some slack. 

Many of the country’s institutions of higher learning are straying from the same old humdrum college classes and offering some bizarre ones that might even make you want to be there at 8 am.

For example, Indiana University-Bloomington offers a Star Trek and Religion class while Georgetown has a Philosophy and Star Trek class. These courses will let you “live long and prosper.” Well actually, maybe they won’t prepare you for the real world, but you’d be all set if you lived on the Starship Enterprise.

If being a Trekkie isn’t your thing and you are more into rock ‘n’ roll (but your parents made you go to college), there are some college classes designed for you!  You may want to try your hand at Brown University’s Bob Dylan course or the University of South California’s “The Beatles Albums: A Critical Appraisal.”

Not into the ’60s and think the times they are a changin’? Well maybe UCLA’s “Cultural History of Rap” or UC-Riverside’s “Rap, Hip-Hop and Popular Culture” will get you pumpin’.

See yourself more as a sports star than a rock star? At Carnegie Mellon University, you can take “American Golf: Aristocratic Pastime or the People’s Game?” to get you into the swing of things.

But college isn’t supposed to be all fun and games…Well actually, maybe it is! Learning after all, is supposed to be fun.