NYU Offering Course on "Occupy Wall Street"

Hat tip to Thillo

You can't make this stuff up, folks. NYU (That's New York University for all you UC* Santa Cruz Community Studies majors) has announced a new course on......

Occupy Wall Street.

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/12/08/n-y-u-to-offer-classes-on-occupy-wall-street/

No, there won't be a new course offered on the Roman Empire, or the Reformation, or World War II, or the Ming Dynasty, or the Civil War. It's Occupy Wall Street-or more specifically, "Why Occupy Wall Street? The History and Politics of Debt and Finance". Do you think this will be an objective look at the issue?

“The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations are catching on across the United states (sic), linking to popular discontent with economic inequality and financial greed and malfeasance around the globe,” says a flyer for the course distributed by its professor, Lisa Duggan. “This course is designed to provide a background for these momentous events.”

"According to the flyer–which depicts a raised, clenched fist holding a pencil, a play on the movement’s symbol–Duggan plans to bring in guest speakers from Occupy Wall Street to “offer the broad view of the meaning and impact of the movement.”

There's a guest speaker right there.




Just imagine, all you scholars out there. NYU actually has an entire department called the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis.

Navel Gazing 101


You wonder why our universities are turning out young men and women who don't know anything. And you wonder why college tuition is so high. You need a lot of professors, chairs, asst chairs, and administrators to run all those useless departments.



Chair                                                   Asst. Chair



Department



And Lisa Duggan? Here is her NYU bio page.

http://sca.as.nyu.edu/object/LisaDuggan

So there you are folks. Course on Occupy Wall Street (from a historical perspective, of course).


* UC stands for University of California, for all you UC Santa Cruz Community Studies majors.