#26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $100: Located twelve miles outside of it, Villanova offers a course on the "History of" this Pennsylvania city Philadelphia |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $200: Vassar offers "Cold War America", a history course "from 1945 until the fall of" this European landmark "in 1989" the Berlin Wall |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $300: Rice boasts that its "20th Century American Presidents" course covers the span of Theodore Roosevelt to this 42nd president (Bill) Clinton |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $400: At Brown, the history course "Conspiracy?" includes this 1692 event dramatized by Arthur Miller in "The Crucible" the Salem Witch Trials |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $500: "The Wealth of Nations" & "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" are two texts assigned for a Duke seminar on this economist Adam Smith |
#8959, aired 2023-10-26 | TAKE THE "A" TRAINING $1000: At Barnard College, courses in this field include "The Rise of Civilization" & "The Origins of Human Society" anthropology |
#8416, aired 2021-06-07 | BRING IT "ON" $200: In the mid-1990s CALCampus became one of the first schools to offer real-time college courses this way online |
#8203, aired 2020-04-15 | UNIQUE COLLEGE COURSES $200: Sweet! Alfred University in New York offered a course on this pancake topper maple syrup |
#8203, aired 2020-04-15 | UNIQUE COLLEGE COURSES $400: I scream, you scream, we all scream for the ice cream short course at this school, home of the Nittany Lions Penn State |
#8203, aired 2020-04-15 | UNIQUE COLLEGE COURSES $600: You can take a course on artificial intelligence at this school along the Charles River; go Engineers! MIT |
#8203, aired 2020-04-15 | UNIQUE COLLEGE COURSES $800: History courses at Kent State include ones on espionage, the holocaust & this Italian city, the birthplace of the renaissance Florence |
#8203, aired 2020-04-15 | UNIQUE COLLEGE COURSES $1000: One of the topics covered in a Major League Baseball course at Arizona State is this player who broke the color barrier in 1947 Jackie Robinson |
#8196, aired 2020-04-06 | COLLEGE ETYMOLOGY $800: Often applied to courses, it's from the Latin for "before" & "need" a prerequisite |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: 2 basic types of college courses are the seminar & this, basically the professor speaking to a large group lecture |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | COLLEGE COURSES $200: San Diego State got into linguistic theory in "Invented Languages": this "Star Trek" one "and Beyond" Klingon |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | COLLEGE COURSES $400: "Tactical Oceanography" is offered at this school in Maryland & probably not too many other places the U.S. Naval Academy |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | COLLEGE COURSES $600: RISD, short for this school, had a course on a li'l somethin' we all might want to know--"the meaning of life" the Rhode Island School of Design |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | COLLEGE COURSES $800: Oral Roberts University's "The Pauline" these isn't about some lady's letters but about important Bible books epistles |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | COLLEGE COURSES $1000: Examining how her music affected progressive social change, this state U. of N.J. got into "Politicizing Beyonce" Rutgers |
#7230, aired 2016-02-05 | COLLEGE MATH $200: If it takes 120 credits to graduate & you've got 96, number of 3-credit courses you'll need for that sheepskin 8 (24 ÷ 3) |
#6878, aired 2014-07-09 | POP CULTURE COLLEGE COURSES $200: You could boldly go to PHIL-180, "Philosophy and Star Trek", at this Catholic university in D.C. Georgetown |
#6878, aired 2014-07-09 | POP CULTURE COLLEGE COURSES $400: Columbia College Chicago dealt with these creatures "in Popular Media"; some say they're the new vampires zombies |
#6878, aired 2014-07-09 | POP CULTURE COLLEGE COURSES $600: M.I.T. offered "Topics in Comparative Media: American Pro" this; I'll break a folding chair on your head if you mess up! Wrestling |
#6878, aired 2014-07-09 | POP CULTURE COLLEGE COURSES $800: Northwestern took on "Consumerism and Social Change in" this AMC drama "America, 1960-1965" Mad Men |
#6878, aired 2014-07-09 | POP CULTURE COLLEGE COURSES $1000: But I would not feel so all alone at Connecticut College; everybody must know English 213B was on this singer Bob Dylan |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | COLLEGE COURSES $200: Not surprisingly, at Gettysburg College, the History 340 courses include the Civil War & one on this president Lincoln |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | COLLEGE COURSES $400: At the U. of Iowa, electives for this major include "Introduction to Clinical" & "Introduction to Cognitive" this Psychology |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | COLLEGE COURSES $600: A Wisconsin course on this in lit & cinema includes viewing "Nosferatu" & reading "The Historian" vampires |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | COLLEGE COURSES $1000: In the Oregon State course ENT 300, "Plagues, Pests & Politics", ENT stands for this field of study entomology |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | COLLEGE COURSES $3,600 (Daily Double): At Princeton, English 311, "The Medieval Period", is followed by English 312, the works of this poet Chaucer |
#5849, aired 2010-02-04 | COLLEGIATE RHYME TIME $800: A bureau for the clothes of a teacher of college courses professor dresser |
#5461, aired 2008-05-12 | COLLEGE COURSES $200: Study this language at Bennington & you may take the class on "Svevo & Tozzi"--2 20th century authors Italian |
#5461, aired 2008-05-12 | COLLEGE COURSES $400: Major in this -ology at Colgate & you'll take "Human Condition" or "Learning and Cognition" before you're a senior psychology |
#5461, aired 2008-05-12 | COLLEGE COURSES $600: For some fun at Willamette University, you can take a course on this; foils, masks & protective jackets are provided fencing |
#5461, aired 2008-05-12 | COLLEGE COURSES $800: It's a synonym for "avarice" & the name of a first-year economics seminar at Swarthmore greed |
#5461, aired 2008-05-12 | COLLEGE COURSES $1000: Now ear this:
This famous school at Lincoln Center features courses on "ear training" Juilliard |
#5224, aired 2007-05-03 | COLLEGIATE LEXICON $200: From the Latin for "write over", it's your official college record, with grades & courses taken transcript |
#5223, aired 2007-05-02 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $800: At Juilliard, not drama but this other "d"ivision requires students to take courses in anatomy & partnering dance |
#4871, aired 2005-11-14 | COLLEGE COURSES $200: At Texas A&M civil engineering majors can take a course called advanced design in this "reinforced" paving material concrete |
#4871, aired 2005-11-14 | COLLEGE COURSES $400: The University of Nebraska at Omaha offers an English course devoted to this "Canterbury Tales" author Chaucer |
#4871, aired 2005-11-14 | COLLEGE COURSES $600: At N.Y.'s Vassar global feminism & postmodern feminism are 2 of the courses offered in this program women's studies |
#4871, aired 2005-11-14 | COLLEGE COURSES $800: Here at N.C. State you can find a course on "The Life and Letters of" this apostle from Tarsus Paul |
#4871, aired 2005-11-14 | COLLEGE COURSES $1000: Biology majors at Humboldt might take mammalogy, herpetology or this, the study of fish ichthyology |
#4187, aired 2002-11-12 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $2000: This "Cat's Cradle" author said of his time at Cornell, "I was enrolled exclusively in courses I had no talent for" Kurt Vonnegut |
#3574, aired 2000-03-02 | THIS & THAT $200: In 1997 this politician got in trouble over his courses at Georgia's Kennesaw State & Reinhardt College Newt Gingrich |
#2944, aired 1997-05-22 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $500: From the Latin for "racecourse", it's the entire aggregate of courses offered by a college Curriculum |
#1688, aired 1991-12-25 | U.S. NAVY $300: Command & strategy courses are taught at the Naval War College in this Rhode Island summer resort Newport |
#802, aired 1988-02-16 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: A land-grant college must, by the Morrill Act of 1862, offer courses in the mechanical arts & this agriculture |
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