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Fall 2010 course title superlatives: the intriguing, the entertaining and the plain old douchey
Most of us learned from a young age not to judge a book by its cover, but nobody ever mentioned anything about judging a course by its title — or placing it into a category based on said characteristic — right?
Hence, without any further ado, the winners for …
Most creative pun
MCM1501K: Seeing Queerly: Queer Theory, Film, Video
Most obscure reference ever to appear in a course catalogue
ETHN1890E: Johnny, Are You Queer: Narratives of Race and Sexuality
Douchiest
CLAS1120G: The Idea of Self
Most emblematic of Brown
tie between SOC1650: Unequal Societies and ANTH1910E: Social Construction
Vaguest
HIST1975Y: Clean and Modern
Deepest
POLS0820D: Freedom
Most oddly specific
HIST1020: Living Together: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Iberia
Combination of most ostensibly unrelated topics
ENGL1360T: Eco-Shakespeare
Greatest resemblance to a potential independent film title
AFRI0110B: The Last Professors
Most likely to coincidentally be the title of a pop psychology best-seller
GNSS2010D: The Power and Mystery of Expertise
Most likely to also be the name of some trashy romance novel
CLAS1750K: Madwomen and Lovers
Most common topic of conversation among middle school girls
AMCV0150J: The Boy Problem
Most tasteless reference ever to appear in a course catalogue
tie between RELS0260: Religion Gone Wild: Spirituality and the Environment, and EAST0950A: Turning Japanese: Constructing Nation, Race and Culture in Modern Japan
Most intellectually ambitious
PHIL0250: The Meaning of Life
Fascinating in the most twisted way
RELS0068: Religion and Torture
Most epic
MCM0901B: Bad in a Good Way: The Art of Failure
and last but not least …
Honorable mention for general pomposity, randomness, ambiguity and/or flowery language
HIST0970B: Tropical Delights: Imagining Brazil in History and Culture
HIST0970X: Gandhi’s Way
AMCV1904B: Henry James Goes to the Movies
AMCV1612M: Children of Immigrants
RELS2110A: Religion and Romanticism: Religious Nature and Nature Religion in Public and Private
ENGL1310B: American Degenerates
COLT1410: Lost in Translation: The Adaptation of Literature to Film in Japan
Happy pre-registration!
April 12, 2010 2 Comments Tags: pre-registration, superlatives
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LITR1230G: Master Poets of Apartheid Streets: Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks
With the theme of “Slavery and Justice” in recent Brown University review, [4] “Master Poets of Apartheid Streets: Perpetual Resistance against de jure and de facto Segregation” is the formal and precise embouchure as Critical Realism which legislates as antidote to pernicious social, economic and educational racism: the aesthetic stance of this seminar is “An Integer Is a Whole Number.” Through close attention to the conventions of poetry as praxis by these four master poets, in social context, the modality of this study is poetic discourse (what Frederick Douglass called “a sacred effort” in Douglass’ description of President A. Lincoln’s ‘Second Inaugural.’ Peripheral insights will be provided by Brown University researchers of the past: Charles H. Nichols, Winthrop Jordan, Richard Slotkin, in their three dissertations, and James R. Patterson’s most recent book on “Brown v. Board of Education.”
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