Study Skyrim at Rice University

[JSoup]

Classes like these aren't anything new, so I wonder why this made the "news". My university has a few classes every other semester centered around games, books and movies, with a whole host more running in one unit weekend classes.

 

[renegade7]

Really?

Ok, in this case I want to teach an another course in that university
"Phallic instincts: man's fascination with his genitals"
It will be about cock-aliens in Spore and building golden cock monuments in Minecraft, and some boring stuff related to that.

P.S. I love Elder Scrolls to death, but this seems a bit too silly.

Captcha: sacred cow
Yes, you could say it is.

Most psychology departments do have human sexuality courses, so you probably wouldn't be the first.

 

[kburns10]

I love hearing stories like this! I know one of my favorite producers teaches a music course at UNC as well. It's a great way to engage a younger generation and get them coming to class all while tying lessons into things in the real world.

 

[funksobeefy]

reminds me of when I took an ancient Greek history class with a style of 300. It was awesome and Im sure this will be awesome too!

 

[Mortamus]

What courses universities decide to offer is their own business.

I can't help feeling though, why would anybody waste their money getting a degree in such a worthless course? What employer is going to give a damn about it? If I was going to get myself into debt so that I stood a chance of getting a better career, I'd make sure I achieved a qualification that would actually help me.

That is, after all, the whole point of getting a degree. To make you more employable.

Wait, what?

What happened to just wanting to learn through an interesting experience?

Not all education is about getting a job. I often learn things because I want to, and if there is a very engaging method available, I'm all the more for it.

 

[Yoshisummons]

Intelligent tummies: the beauty of your own navel

Professor J-e-f-f-e-r-s will be leading a semester-long study looking the human navel, and the art of Omphaloskepsis. Many cultures believe that the navel is a centre of knowledge, and that it houses powerful chakra. Over the semester, students will be asked to analyse their own belly buttons, and see what powerful new insights they can gain about themselves. The purpose of this is to establish how pretentious modern education has become, and how gratifying it is to masturbate to shallow intellectualism while learning nothing of any real intellectual value at all. All students upon passing the course will be presented with a Bachelor of Pretentious Art, giving them an academic grounding on which to base their meaningless waffle.

Thank you making my day.

Also, surely this is all a ploy to get people's money I mean Butts into the chairs of the classroom for one reason or another.

This whole topic is starting to remind me of my loathing of The life of Pie.

Edit: Grammatical errors

 

[antipunt]

All I can say is:

"Guys. It's a trap"

>_>