http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/columbia_offers_occupy_PKetTw1QSVVk23BllNN0DLColumbia offers ?Occupy 101?
By ANNIE KARNI
Does getting pepper-sprayed count as extra credit?
Columbia University is offering a new course on Occupy Wall Street next semester ? sending upperclassmen and grad students into the field for full course credit.
The class is taught by Dr. Hannah Appel, who boasts about her nights camped out in Zuccotti Park.
As many as 30 students will be expected to get involved in ongoing OWS projects outside the classroom, the syllabus says.
The class will be in the anthropology department and called ?Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement.? It will be divided between seminars at the Morningside Heights campus and fieldwork.
On her blog, Appel defends OWS, arguing that ?it is important to push back against the rhetoric of ?disorganization? or ?a movement without a message? coming from left, right and center.?
Addressing the safety risks of fieldwork among protesters, she writes on the syllabus, ?I can say with absolute certainty that there is no foreseeable risk in teaching this as a field-base class.?
She said her allegiance won?t keep her from being an objective teacher.
?Inevitably, my experience will color the way I teach, but I feel equipped to teach objectively,? Appel told The Post. ?It?s best to be critical of the things we hold most sacred.?
POSTER'S NOTE: Holy Shit! You have to be one dumb motherfucker to waste the money it requires to attend Columbia on an idiotic class like this. You can learn this shit for free anyways! Just go to an Occupy event on the weekends!!!
