Friday, May 20, 2005
YOUR TUITION DOLLARS AT WORK OR NEWS FROM PLANET ZIRCON
According to MTV:
Students at the University of Iowa are lining up for what promises to be a stimulating educational experience.
Upper-level communication studies course "Critical Pornography Studies" will focus on the role of pornography in pop culture, according to Jay Clarkson, the graduate student spearheading the class. Students will tackle topics like the history of obscenity, attempts to legislate pornography, the feminist debate over porn, and porn's prevalence in the media and U.S. culture.
Clarkson stressed the class is more about research than pornography itself — so don't look for any XXX-rated videos, ahem, popping up in the course. "We will not be viewing X-rated materials in class, nor will the assignments require that students purchase pornographic materials."
Who knows...they might learn something that will help eliminate pornography from our everyday encounters. Wouldn't that be worth tuition dollars. Then again, I'm not sure I would want them to be my tuition dollars being spent on my kid's education!
Whata world--college credit for studying porn.
Hat tip to a reader.
