DEGREE IN PIRACY ?

By Bob Walsh

 

 

 

One of my friends recently told me that MIT offered a degree in Piracy.  Not the history of piracy or the economic and social impacts of piracy but the actual practice of piracy.   Seamanship.  How to swing a cutlass effectively.  That sort of thing.  So I looked into it a bit.

It is actually a CERTIFICATE rather than a degree and it was initiated to nudge people into getting their physical education requirement.  It is, however, still kind of cool.  Colleges do strange things like that once in a while.  UC Berkeley has issued at least one degree in Magic over the years.  The actual practice of magic.  Where there is a will, or at least an academic interest, I guess there is a way.