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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. Re:Mind Trick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is not the comment you're looking for.

    Move along.

    (sorry, couldn't resist)

    Dang it. I was about to post "First scruffy nerf-herder".

  2. Re:mockery of the education system by andy.ruddock · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The article only refers to "speculative discussions" about the "possibility" of removing books. Which is, to my mind, not attempting to ban books, although it may well have been a tentative first step.

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  3. The Dork Side by frozenray · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Beware of the dork side. Once you step down the dork path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will!

    You will live in your mother's basement. You will never kiss a girl. The only girls you will ever see will be pr0n on the internet. You will have no outlet but playing with your own light saber.

    Don't cross over to the dork side.
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    (Full credit for this one goes to /. user macdaddy357)

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