bird course

短期大学も受験者獲得に必死です。それを物語るような記事です。bird courseはもともとがカナダのjargonで，easy courseと置き換えることができます。カナダに限らず広く英語圏で使われる俗語に(strictly) for the birdsというのがあります。 これは鳥に「とるに足らない，ちっぽけな」というイメージがあるところから生まれたものです。ここのbirdもおそらくそのあたりからのものと推測されます。（UG）

Fukuoka college establishes idol department

The post-secondary education business has entered dire straits in Japan. With the ever declining birth rate, schools across the nation are struggling to keep enrollments up.
In Fukuoka, Nishi-Nippon Junior College believes it has an attractive solution to this problem: the “Department of Media Promotion,” more casually referred to as the “Idol Training Department.”

It seems that this new course aims to attract young women hoping to pursue a career as an idol. However, for the most part, the department’s main purpose seems to be to provide an entertaining elective course for students with other majors.

In addition to regular elective courses in law and political science, students who chooses to major in Media Promotion will have to endure a grueling curriculum of courses in manners, audition strategies, modeling, make-up, and more.

Don’t be fooled into thinking this is a bird course though. According to a report by J-Cast, the dance class is extremely severe and involves heavy chastising of students who don’t go all out in while dancing in skimpy outfits.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/fukuoka-college-establishes-idol-department