I was thinking today. (Not to be recommended.) I was trying to come up with some monster courses for non-music majors, but that morphed into odd dissertation topics. Here are a few of them:

Smoke on the Water: Autobiography and Social Discourse in the Lyrics of Deep Purple.

Dysfunction: Harmonic Apathy in mid-20th Century Art Music.

Let's Make Music Great Again: The Fall and Fall of the Arts and Culture in Public Schools.

Do you have any ideas?