So not sure who all read the article pertaining to the Pitt football players being charged with some potential things on ESPN (or wherever they ganked it from) but the most entertaining thing I have found in a long time is that the one person recognized only 1 of the 3 players because they had a class on vampires together...really?!?! What university offers classes on fictious things. As my buddy Dave mentioned to me a little bit ago, it's like taking Time Traveling 100...for those who want to learn how the flux capacitor works and where it originated from.
It's so ridiculous that schools have classes like this. How is that higher learning? So messed up, but so funny at the same time.
Apparently, according to the other thread on tis topic, OSU also offers a class on Vampires.
I am seriously thinking of applying to teach that class (Time Traveling 100). Who's to say I don't have the credentials?
Uncle Rico: Kip, I reckon... you know a lot about... cyberspace? You ever come across anything... like time travel?
Kip: Easy, I've already looked into it for myself.
I took a course at UK called "Dinosaurs and Disasters"...tuition well spent.
I like that AJBOR...that made me laugh.
I thought I had a relatively cake schedule being an art major and what not (even though it really wasn't) with classes like Art and Music after 1945, but they were very useful history courses.
And sorry for the 2nd thread on this TennBuckeye...I did a quick look through the Anything Else forum since that's where I figured it would be and didn't see one so I started one up. Didn't think I could be the first to post...should've looked more I guess.
Didn't a school out west (USC ?) offer a class on the movies of Keanu Reeves and their effect on modern society?
UNKY BUCK - your post is similar, yet different. I wasn't trying to hate on ya man.
The other was probably under FOOTBALL and the OP was about the Pitt players being charged with assault, but the discussion turned into talking about the Vampires class.
@UNKY BUCK - My roommate attended every lecture and got a B-, while I cruised to an A by only showing up on exam days, stealing a few of his notes, and watching Jurassic Park.
@TennBuckeye - I can see how that would happen. I find it funny that they even mention it but at the same time they mention it so slyly; as if it's not a big deal. Apparently it seems to be a rather normal occurance though so it must not be that big of a deal.
But damn, if my parents ever knew that I took a class on vampires, they would've been rather pissed at me. Took me long enough to get through OSU as it is...didn't need any other unusable credits.
And Dhodge, we should start a class at OSU for Time Traveling. Of course we would have to focus a whole lot on the Back to the Future trilogy, but I'm sure we can stretch that into 15 weeks of classes.
(Edit) No worries Tenn. I didn't take that personally. I could care less that there's a 2nd one. It's here, so let's run with it.
I do wonder about the Vampires class though. Is it a history class or a pop culture course or what?
Required material for Vampires 101:
"It's just another case of there you are". ~ Doc (1918-2012)
Dr. Emmit Brown ain't got nothing on this Time Lord:
I feel like turning this thread into a up vote love fest.
@Hodge I like it. Plus my last name is Hodge so that rocks!
"Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Arts" Don't let the name fool you, it was a class about television and culture.
I think that Time Travelling class might have some required viewing of a show starring Scott Bakula:
Just watched Lost Boys the other night, do those credits transfer?
I know there's a game saturday, and my ass will be there.
MMMM. Cereal
The name did fool me, Earle. Thanks for clarifying it, haha.
There are always ridiculous classes and clearly they're funny as hell in some instances (Dinosaurs and Disasters wins that by a landslide IMO).
@DHODGE7 - I had a feeling; it's my last name, as well. Though, to be fair, it could almost be my first name, considering how much myself and other people use it.
@Tenn - Now i'm glad I started this thread. This has made my afternoon.
Time Travel 101 Core Requirement: The Terminator: Man sends his own father back in time to conceive him. Mind. Blown.
I took a theatre arts course on silent films from the the 1910s and 20s.
Partly because silent films had no audio dialogues/soundtracks, they tended to celebrate bold visual contrasts. The actors employed dramatic, expressive gestures and facial pantomimes, etc. Macabre subjects were kind of in vogue then. Some of the greatest films of the era were either "horror movies" or had dark themes.
If that wasn't enough reason to talk about vampires in that course, the instructor was a Goth lesbian.
Not suprisingly, we spent about half the time enthusing about vampires (Nosferatu, 1922), mad German doctors (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920), and shadowy urban dystopias (Metropolis, 1927).
How do you know she was a lesbian?
"Here officer, hold my beer while I find my license."
Guest Lecturer in Vampires 1 ah, ah, ah!, 0 ah, ah, ah!, 1 ah, ah, ah!
And while we're throwing pictures in here, we can go with the Time Machine as well in Time Traveling 100
Unky Buck, did you really just post a scene from Big Bang Theory that did not include Kaley Cuoco?
FOR SHAME!
Film Study second semister my junior year of high school. Had it right after lunch. Best class I ever had. Watch a movie write a paper. Rinse and repeat.
I know there's a game saturday, and my ass will be there.
Ooops, my bad. Hopefully this rectifies that problem...
2 Things Fido.
1: You are old!
2: 10+ years in school? Your parents were obviously very patient with you.
As a follow on for buck, you know you will get like a gazillion votes for that pic.
Earle wrote:
Now that I think about it, that was an absurd premise. You give a man explicit instructions to go back in time and conceive you. Naturally, your "dad" will put his heart & soul into the mission, but about 33 years later, he will have conceived about 48 kids, none of which are you.
I'm freaking out. Right now.
The world is full of kings & queens who'll blind your eyes & steal your dreams - it's heaven & hell - Ronnie James Dio.
More absurd than a killer cyborg with an Austrian accent sent back to dispatch your mother before you were born?
Two things Oyster:
1. I wasn't in school during the silent movie era. I just studied it. But, you're right, I must be old because one kid in that class actually got a C (grade) for the course. Since then, all grades below B were outlawed.
2. It only took me seven years to complete my undergrad degree.
@FIDO - So technically, The Terminator could have been made by Chris Nolan and titled Conception?
I kill me.
That and you are also telling your parents to have sex!
^aaaand everyone on 11w simultaneously shudders.
I know there's a game saturday, and my ass will be there.
too bad Penny is a Nebraska fan! Why do hot buckeye fans stick to sports journalism and not sitcoms? Fer shame!
I don't know what is worst, these courses are actually accredited...
http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/knowledge/15-most-bizarre-college-courses
or that this actually exists! (not that I am anti HP but seriously?)
http://www.internationalquidditch.org/
@oyster - If it happen it happens! Lol. I'm not really playing to the crowd or anything - seriously. Although that pic will play to any crowd of males between the ages of 10 to 120 so bring it on.
And washes their eyes out with soap!
Hey Buck, my youngest is 9 and he is watching this thread intently. Well, your contribution to be exact.
Oyster, that's not necessarily a bad thing! I may need to expand the age bracket to like 6 or 7 to 120.
Squirrel: thanks, I think I'll enroll in the distance learning (online) unit of SUNY's Cyber Porn & Society course.
Well maybe if we went back in time and followed Mark May around the Pitt campus we'd see he took vampires 101 which then in turn would explain his sucking so much?
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates. Football is no different, the guys down in the trenches win the games, not the coach.
Uncovering buried threads 101 with BigBadBuck as the teacher
This 2010 post from ABC News says a University of Texas course on vampires is actually titled “Intro to Slavic Civilizations: The Vampire in Slavic Cultures,” and is taught every other fall semester by professor and though vampires were first brought into the university’s curriculum for a brief time during the 70s.
Also this:
In regards to English and other literary courses, I understand the importance of the Vampire side of it. In that regard it makes a ton of sense. There have been a lot of books written on vampires, particularly Dracula, so to observe what the role has played in the literary community would be worthwhile for those within that college. Even the humanities courses can probably be excused too for the same reasons above. If it's sort of like a reflection on the affect of that literature to a particular culture or sort of a run down on the history in areas like Slovakia, then yeah, that works and there is a place for it.
The ones I find rather funny and odd at the same time are like the last one where it's a class basically on the pop cultural influence of zombies. Now, if Pitt offered that class, at least we know some in the area would be prepared for a zombie attack. But if that's not a blow off class, I don't know what it is then. Maybe I'm partly jealous because I really didn't take any blow off classes and would've liked an easy A, but I think it's more of the ridiculousness of the classes general. But then again...it did give us a good thread with some funny classes that people took...so I can definitely give it a pass.
Also, this appears to be the syllabus for the Pitt course, Slavic 880, "Vampire: Blood and Empire."
Course requirements include three exams (though no final), pop quizzes, and a 2-3 page paper. The deal about the essay is pretty hilarious:
The instructor notes in the syllabus that the course typically has a "very large" number of students enrolled. I can see why.
Remembering that funding in academia is often tied to the number of students enrolled in courses in the department, it behooves departments to have large lecture classes of this nature that draw in a steady stream of students looking for an
easy gradeinteresting course.Time travel is possible... we would just have to be able to make a spacecraft that can go the speed of light... Let's say we had one capable of traveling the speed of light... if you were to board that ship and head somewhere that's about 5 light years away and just turned around and came back to earth... you would have only aged 10 years while the Earth has aged over 500 years... Everyone you know would be long goneeee.
^I watched a documentary on Netflix about it. ha
Mind. Blown.
But then again, if the future was like this...
...then it wouldn't be too bad.
I know for a fact that Ohio State has offered a class on Vampires. I took it. It was in the fall of '96. Slavic 130: The Vampire in Eastern European and American Culture. Professor was Dr. Daniel Collins, who I believe is still at OSU. Still have my course packet from Grade A notes. You could use it for a general ed course, and that I did. Wasn't looking for it per se, but they sent a mailer with some of my freshman materials. So glad it was before the whole ridiculous Twilight thing.