This would count toward my major, and if I weren't going to take it, the likely replacement would be a course in experimental/"folk" philosophy. But I'd also like to hear your thoughts on the virtues of academic rationality courses in general.
(The main counterargument, I'd imagine, is that the Sequences cover most of the same material in a more fluid and comprehensible fashion.)
Here is the syllabus: http://www.yale.edu/darwall/PHIL+333+Syllabus.pdf
Other information: I sampled one lecture for the course last year. It was a noncommital discussion of Newcomb's problem, which I found somewhat interesting despite having read most of the LW material on the subject.
When I asked what Omega would do if we activated a random number generator with a 50.01% chance of one-boxing us, the professors didn't dismiss the question as irrelevant, but they also didn't offer any particular answer.
I help run a rationality meetup at Yale, and this seems like a good place to meet interested students. On the other hand, I could just as easily leave flyers around before the class begins.
Related question: Could someone quickly sum up what might be meant by the "feminist critique" of rationality, as would be discussed in the course? I've read a few abstracts, but I'm still not sure I know the most important points of these critiques.
Some might hope that people who do not allow such a concern to be tempered by other concerns, perhaps of a social and moral/ethical nature, should be kept as far away as possible from any of these objects.
After all, even J. R. Oppenheimer discarded his scientific detachment upon witnessing the first nuclear explosion, instead he uttered the famous quote: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." (By contrast, a more "rational" person might simply rejoice that his complex calculations predicting that the Earth's atmosphere would not be burned up in the explosion had been proven correct by experimentation!) And Einstein famously regretted his career as a physicist upon learning of these fateful possibilities, stating that if he had known earlier, he would have chosen to be a watchmaker.
This is a common misattribution:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Misattributed
Scroll down to "If only I had known, I should have become a watch-maker."