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More Anime College and University Courses Being Offered
Ninja Master Gara writes "Anime News Network reports New York University is offering a new courses on the anime industry and culture. Anime is slowly expanding from University Clubs into mainstream college courses, many of which begin at the 'What is anime?' level. Several Universities and Community Colleges already offer similar courses, or incorporate anime into existing studies." If any school decides to offer a course on the Gundam series, I'd be happy to teach a class.
Imagine what an effective work force we would have if people promptly said "Hai!" and could cheer with "Yatta! Yatta!" :)
what about hentai class?
"I still gotta take Tentacle Rape 203 next term"
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Where is my anime course, I want apreciating Ghost in the Shell, and I WANT IT NOW NOW NOW!
...in the Netherlands, that would be part of what they call a "pretpakket": basically something like a university degree in macrame. It's stupidly silly.
I heard education in the US sucked, but it's another thing to see it confirmed.
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
Hopefully, they are offering a grammar class too.
Hell, the prospect of getting a B.A. in anime arts gives me a warm fuzzy feeling, that will probably contrast nicely to the bitter cold of sleeping in a gutter if I get that degree.
Just kidding, calm down all you anime fanatics. If I can watch Star Trek then you can watch cartoons featuring scatily clad Japanese chicks of questionable age. :-)
Essay question (90 minutes, no open books):
Explain FLCL.
zing
A Bachelor Degree in Waiting Around to Collect Your Trust Fund.
Give you something to talk about between skiing the Alps and summering in Barbados.
The Humanities strike again!
What is music when you despise all sound?
I can fulfill my dream of writting my thesis on why Goku would win in a deathmatch against Superman.
True genius is grasping a situation like a peice of fruit, and peircing it just right so that it drains dry.
Exam questions:
1) What happens in 'End of Evangelion' after Eva-01 is crucified? Why?
2) Explain the neurological causes of epileptic seizures as induced by flashing lights.
3) Discuss the role of transvestism and transsexuality in anime and manga.
4) Explain briefly how you would go about constructing a giant killer robot today, assuming a reasonable level of military funding.
5) Tokyo has a typical life expectancy of half an hour after anything unusual happens; then it usually blows up. Explain how you would improve civic security to prevent major loss of life in future battles.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
1) The professor's just hoping one of the students will figure it out so he can steal the answer and publish it.
2) See the black hole into which everything I learned in Intro to Neurosci went the minuite after the final. All I know is playing the Gundam Wing SNES game made my cousin's kid puke all over the floor.
3) Will accept: brief history of CLAMP studios, rant about roomate's inability to appreciate Ranma, questioning the sexual orientation of the Inital D character designs without coming off as homophobic, "What the fuck's with Utena?"
4) Find some orphans, some scientists, Russian or German, some unobtainium, and either harness the power of a minor diety or drug a creepy psychic kid. If nothing happens, draw more Kabalistic symbols on the walls.
5) Up the budget for the Tokyo Police Cataclysm Division.
Just pretend I came up with something funny in there somewhere.
Drugs. Very powerful drugs. Preferrably hallucinogens.