EXCLUSIVE: From “Religion and Nasty Women” to “Decolonizing French Food,” students at some of Americas most prestigious universities can take courses on Bad Bunny, Marxism, gender and even why dancing matters if the world is ending.
Collegiate organization Young Americas Foundation (YAF) shared the eye-catching offerings in its 2026-27 “Comedy & Tragedy Report,” obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital.
At Columbia University, “Religion and Nasty Women” takes its name in part from President s “nasty woman” remark about during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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The course description says the phrase has since become a “badge of honor and a rallying cry for womens empowerment.” Students examine goddesses, prostitutes and virgins across several religious traditions in what the description calls a survey of “religious-based misogyny” and womens responses to it.
Columbia also offers “Marxism and Cultural Theory,” though the course description makes clear students shouldnt expect a deep dive into Marx himself.
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“This course will not offer an intensive study of the writings of Karl Marx,” the description states. Instead, the class examines Marxism as a theory of culture, including its relationship to global capitalism, financial crises and other “discourses of social justice.”
Bad Bunny, aka Benito Antonio MartÃnez Ocasio, may need to add namesake to his list of accomplishments, with the Puerto Rican musician suddenly inspiring multiple classes at elite universities.
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At Princeton, “Thinking with Bad Bunny: the Cultural Politics of Race, Language, and Empire” examines his music, lyrics, activism, “gender non-conforming performances” and business strategies.
The course also explores how Bad Bunny navigates his status as a global Latino icon, while coming from what its description calls “‘s colonial context.”
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Yale gets in on the Bad Bunny action, too, with “Bad Bunny: Musical Aesthetics and Politics,” a course examining his music alongside Puerto Rico’s history, politics and “colonial past and present.”
At the University of Pennsylvania, “Decolonizing French Food” starts with wine, cheese and baguettes before examining how French culinary traditions have been shaped by colonialism.
Stanford Universitys “Gender in the Wild” course reportedly examines how gender shapes ideas about wilderness, freedom, heroism and risk, drawing on feminist texts, “Indigenous knowledge” and “Black environmental thought.”
