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Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast

Posted by samzenpus on from the major-in-gameboy dept.

Starting in November, Queen's University Belfast will offer a course that will use the psychology of the Star Wars Jedi Knights to teach students communication skills and personal development. The university's publicity material reads 'the course "Feel the Force: How to Train in the Jedi Way" teaches the "real-life psychological techniques behind Jedi mind tricks"' and promises to explore 'wider issues behind the Star Wars universe, like balance, destiny, dualism, fatherhood and fascism.' The course is very affordable but the droid fees are outrageous.

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  1. mockery of the education system by jgarra23 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is just awful.

    1. Re:mockery of the education system by zangetsu · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Star Wars: a hypothetical universe in which the legislative branch gradually yields more and more power to the executive branch during war time, after which the balance of power is not restored because the executive branch had a hidden agenda to rule without checks and balances

      That single aspect of the story merits more than a one day class.

      Sci-fi movies tend to focus on special effects more than plot, but many of the books are steeped in political philosophy (I recommend Orson Scott Card)

  2. Re:Shameful pandering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You do know that Belfast is in Northern Ireland, right? This is a British college, not an American one.

    That said, I don't disagree with you at all.

  3. great by Brain+Damaged+Bogan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    another religion being taught in schools...

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