Global Problems of Population Growth is a controversial class for a feminist magazine to endorse. The topic—the population explosion—is certainly relevant to reproductive and sexual rights work, but this course’s handling is, in one student’s words, “racist, imperialist, elitist, classist and sexist.” Indeed, the class opens with an essentialist explanation of domestic abuse (essentially, “monkey’s do it”) and ends with the assertion that all women want fewer kids, coupled with a denial of global forced sterilization campaigns. However, the issue of overpopulation is so urgent, and so inextricably intertwined with feminist politics, that if you’re prepared to approach the material with a skeptical eye, argue with the professor, and tolerate detail-oriented exams, it could be as life-changing a science credit for you as it was for this Broads writer.