At one of my former universities we had a glut of professors who were tenured, teaching courses no one wanted, or needed. The only way to keep these classes filled was to require students to take the classes, and if that didn't work, to require labs on classes that traditionally did not have, or need, a lab, and then make the professors teach those. That worked until the foreign student glut. Now that same university (George Mason fyi) has to dramatically increase the number of senseless labs so they can provide graduate teaching assistants jobs to the foreign students. It's more like a shell game than an actual education. Serious question: Does Research Methods in Psychology really need a four hour lab???