A python script that generates course numbers and course descriptions for a fictional liberal arts program. The course titles range from fantastical to quasi-plausible, and makes one wonder which ones are actual courses in universities.

This project is an investigation into how jargon in critical theory papers can make their ideas unapproachable to the general public.

See it live here. It’ll just take a couple of seconds to load.

Below is some sample output from this program:

HI356 The Archeology of Meta-Radicalist Genderization

AN500 Capitalist Capitalism In The Context Of The Philosophy Of The Capital

AN449 Capitalist Humanism

AN391 Techno-Radicalist Capitalism

AR537 The Archeology of Post-Post-Third Wave-Femininist Capitalization

AN338 Theories Of Psycho-Aestheticist Positivism

PH533 Machinist Ontologism of Socialist Genders

AN576 Negativist Radicalism

AN573 Humanist Positivism

AR352 Capitalist Fundamentalism of Neo-Psychologist Positives

HI420 The Economy of Reductionism

SO425 Post-Philosophy of Humanist Humanization

HI497 Reductionist Capitalism

PH482 The Psychology of Aestheticism

HI552 Archeologist Reductionism of Meta-Fundamentalist Radicalism