‘Occupy Wall Street’ Participation To Earn Class Credit At Columbia U.

CBS Local ^ | 1/2/12 | CBS New York

[Nachum]

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Columbia University will offer a new course for upperclassmen and grad students next semester. An Occupy Wall Street class will send students into the field and will be taught by Dr. Hannah Appel, a veteran of the Occupy movement.

The course begins next semester and will be divided between class work at Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus and fieldwork that will require students to become involved with the Occupy movement outside of the classroom.

The course will be called “Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement” it will be run by the anthropology department.

Appel is a staunch defender of the Occupy movement, in her blog she said that, ““it is important to push back against the rhetoric of ‘disorganization’ or ‘a movement without a message’ coming from left, right and center.”

Appel told the New York

[Darksheare]

Extra class credit for catching STD’s and tuberculosis?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I wonder how many “students” are enrolled in Columbia’s TEA Party 101 course. Opps! I’m sorry. This is a Marxist university. They don’t like people who think that they’ve been Taxed Enough Already.

[SandRat]

Go here and you can shiver-shiver see her. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/columbia_offers_occupy_PKetTw1QSVVk23BllNN0DL

[Huntress]

Per the Columbia U. web site, tuition is $1,392 per credit hour for a typical undergrad. So if this is a three credit course, it will cost a over $4,000 per semester to be part of the “99 percent.”

[rmlew]

Yet ROTC students still can’t get credit.

[Huntress]

She's got a bad case of pixelitis.

[SandRat]

That’s to hide the Zits.

[ml/nj]

If I were a Columbia student pursuing a normal academic degree, I think I would sue the university for damages.

ML/NJ

[Texas Eagle]

The course will be called “Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement” it will be run by the anthropology department.

Which department will run the "Rape, Theft, Bowel Movement" course?

[Texas Eagle]

Not that I expect any Occutards to get the point, but how much is tuition?

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I was wondering that too. When will they give credits to students who want to participate in a TEA Party?

[B.O. Plenty]

This is truly embarrassing....this kind of “honor” tends to drive me to the “America is finished” camp....

[RedMDer]

[Harley]

Deficate on a cop car, make the paper, automatic “A”.
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[ExCTCitizen]

Columbia University, the Yugo of the Ivy League.

[depressed in 06]

That should look good on a resume, if you are looking for job shoveling horse manure.

[Catmom]

Aw, c’mon. Occupy is so 2012.

[AppyPappy]

Welcome to 2009.