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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.
Course Description:
Anime (V33.0709) This course introduces students to the rich world of Japanese animation or anime, its form and style, history, popular genres and themes, major authors, and fan culture. We will explore the popularity of anime in relation to the cultural conditions of contemporary Japan and to the context of cultural globalization which is radically transforming the way audio-visual images are produced and consumed.
It's kind of nice to see that Anime is finally being recognize, after so many years, for it's massive cultural influences all over the world. It's gone from being a somewhat-maligned form of geek|children's entertainment to a full-fledged industry/art form. I think it would be interesting to see what's up next on the platter? Maybe the entire geek world can be examined for it's influences on modern culture. Think about it this way: someday your kids could be reading literature in school that includes archived Slashdot posts your doing now! Well.. considering how many "hentai tentacle rape" posts are bound to pop up here... maybe not.
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nothing like donkey cocks to be informative and insightful.... im sorry but im tired of seing anime sucks posts. If you hate it that much, then go to the preferences and check the box labeled anime.
Saying that it is poorly written or whatever alone doesn't constitute being informative or insightful.
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For humor, try "Golden Boy". If you have not seen this series, find it. It's a tremendous paradoy of the worst (or best, if that's your opinion) aspects of anime. My friend showed me this gem about 2 years ago.
they have a trial course that you can try if you got a graphics pad.
I got the link when I was browsing around studio Ghibli
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