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...David Penniman, a dean at Buffalo who oversees Halavais' cyberporn course. Penniman acknowledges that the graphic images used in the class may upset some people, but, he adds, "it's tricky for a dean or university president to try to dictate what should or shouldn't be in the syllabus." It's especially tricky at state schools where legislators help determine school funding. After Clarkson's course appeared in the catalog at the University of Iowa, a state politician threatened to withdraw school funding. (He dropped his efforts only after he learned that lessons wouldn't involve explicit visuals...
...that seems to be scheduled only sporadically) is not a course on the Civil War era, per se, but rather one that deals with how the war has been memorialized and represented in popular culture. This might be a useful enough supplementary course (though, judging only by the listed syllabus, this version seems a bit thin and intellectually lightweight), but it certainly can’t substitute for a thorough course in the political, diplomatic, social, economic, and, obviously, military history of the war. The latter would seem to be indispensable to any student, history major or otherwise, wishing...
...intersection with reconstituted discourses of race and gender, and less on the form itself. Witness the inclusion of Tupac in a Harvard course on protest literature, or the schizophrenia of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s “Hip Hop” course, whose syllabus is fraught with jarring references to “commodity fetishization”, “hedz”, and “dookie chains.”Though the course flirts with under-explored theoretical issues of space and performance, the pedagogy plays into existing paradigms of hip-hop scholarship: only...
Tucked away at the end of the syllabus for Professor Louis Menand’s English 169: “The Road to Postmodernism,” past all the essays by Sontag and Greenberg, one finds a startling message from the professor: “For those students who grew up on Mars, there will be a screening of ‘Star Wars.’”Perhaps even more surprisingly, the inclusion of lightsabers alongside Pynchon is hardly an anomaly. More and more, undergraduates find their Derrida reading accompanied by comic strips, their Shakespeare supplemented...
...required to linger around a newsstand, and then purchase a magazine that they would not normally pick up. Students will then bring these intriguing publications to class where discussions and reactions will ensue. Prina plans to maintain the mysterious aura surrounding the class by not providing a syllabus so the students do not know what to expect as the semester progresses. Probably more loitering...