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.
The subjectivity of our perceptions and how we relate to one another are themselves parts of objective reality.
To steelman the position you're attributing, if philosophy and rationality have been paying too little attention to those parts of objective reality, then they need to focus on those as well as, not instead of, the rest of reality. Or to put that in terms of a concrete example alluded to elsewhere in the thread, nuclear power plants must be designed to be safely operable by real fallible humans.
But they do attend to these things already. Bayesian methods provide objective reasoning about subjective belief. Psychology, not all of which is bunk, deals with (among other things) how we relate to one another. Engineering already deals with human factors.