But all serve to test the limits of what a college or university finds acceptable in the name of educating men and women. To some extent, these schools are merely responding to a growing demand. But now, with the increasing popularity of interdisciplinary and self-designed majors, students can pick and choose from a wide range of courses, forcing departments to be more innovative in their offerings. Debate over the value of these new courses has intensified in recent years, along with criticism that many of them are ephemeral or lightweight. Others see the flowering of new courses in a more benign light.
Some courses are less academically rigorous and less respectable than others.
You can't make a snap judgment. It takes time. Dr. Brazina, executive director of the new E-commerce Institute at La Salle University couldn't agree more. Many of the new e-commerce courses and degrees being offered are very trendy. It looks like schools have scrambled to invent courses.