MIT Creates Class About Soap Operas

An anonymous reader writes "Wikipedia apparently wasn't enough. There had to be a course on the much needed subject of soap operas at MIT. Here's the Course Description: "The television landscape has changed drastically in the past few years; nowhere is this more prevalent than in the American daytime serial drama, one of the oldest forms of television content. This class examines the history of these "soap operas" and their audiences by focusing on the production, consumption, and media texts of soaps. The class will include discussions of what makes soap operas a unique form, the history of the genre, current experimentation with transmedia storytelling, the online fan community, and comparisons between daytime dramas and primetime serials from 24 to Friday Night Lights, through a study of Procter & Gamble's As the World Turns."" All I really need to know I learned from my evil twin, who fathered my unborn child, who has a extremely rare disease that only one of my many CIA contacts, who is also sleeping with my wife, can cure.

Comments

Soap Operas Will Destroy Our Society

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Soap Operas are among the most damaging and destructive influences in our society today. I have witnessed first hand the pain and suffering they can wreak upon the people who watch them and those close to them. An unending visual diet of petty pickering, gross injustices, squabbling, two bit storylines and overblown melodrama can wear down the common sense of even the most stoic individual, turning them into a capricious, cantankerous, shrew with violent mood swings who starts flaming arguments at the slightest provocation.

I can say with surety that no child of mine will ever, ever be allowed to watch a soap opera of any kind. I would rather they were smoking crack. At least their are clinics for that.

Re:Soap Operas Will Destroy Our Society

[Locke2005]

Or as I tell my wife, "Hey, if you wanted to listen to a disfunctional family with people arguing all the time, you could just have a conversation with me!"

Re:Soap Operas Will Destroy Our Society

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, there is. Their called schools. He should of gone to one. He probly did, but didn't care less when he was their, so he didn't learn nothing.

Finally!

[Locke2005]

An MIT class that my wife could actually get a passing grade in!