Are there undergraduate courses in hypnotherapy that a college student can take?

I don’t know that there would be a course dedicated specifically to it, but my intro psychology course touched on suggestibility and hypnosis. I would imagine that more advanced-level courses in neuroscience or psychopathology would get into more detail.

Yes, I took a course in the last century, will not say when. Sociology that had a Dentist, for a speaker, that used hypnosis for tooth extraction and pain reduction. “When” was while Beatles were still together.

I also took a course in psych for my nursing in the last century. It was mostly to explore relieving pain in and from surgeries by hypnotism. Also touched on psych issues. I used to assist when the professor put on little shows for the college- fascinating stuff.

Could a student get enough out of one of those courses to play around with it a little and pull some hypnosis on a fellow student? and maybe plant a posthypnotic suggestion that works?

This isn’t asking whether he should. People in stories don’t always do what they should. It’s about whether he could.

I’m not sure one would even need to attend a class to learn enough to do what you are suggesting, @Jeruba. Information abounds in our society, and there are many who have an almost hypnotic effect in their voice and articulation that it would be conceivable that they could hypnotize a fellow student. As for planting the post-hypnotic suggestion, most studies of hypnotism indicate that people will not perform any act under a post-hypnotic suggestion that they would not normally do in their every day life. For example, you cannot program someone to kill or commit a crime unless they were predisposed to perform that act anyway.

Thanks, @VS. You sound knowledgeable. I’ve heard that too. But couldn’t you plant a suggestion such as this:
When I ask you a question and say the word “onomatopoeia,” you will answer me truthfully.
or
When you hear me say the word “onomatopoeia,” you will develop an extreme dislike of apples.
?

I think you could do that over a few sessions, or if the person was a ‘good’ subject. I watched and read a lot years ago because I was so interested.