Columbia Offering Course on Occupy Wall Street, Requires Participation

The Anthropology Department at Columbia University has a new course - 'Occupy 101.' Yes, the movement responsible for tens of millions of dollars in damage across the country, several deaths, rapes, assaults, thefts, disease, and untold amounts of collective human waste in public places now is being taught at Columbia.

The catch? You have to participate in a protest to get full credit.

Via New York Post:

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.

Higher education continues to seek the lowest common denominator.

h/t Weasel Zippers