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HUMOR: Course offering: 'Peace and Democracy (Haha!)' |
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Written by Jack Kus
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Sunday, 20 March 2005 |
UFPPC's Jack Kus was leafing through the catalogue of the University of the Mind the other day and chanced upon this item, which he wanted to share....
From THE UNIVERSITY OF THE MIND 2004-2005 CATALOG Spring Quarter 2005
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 201: "Peace and Democracy (Haha!)" -- Instructor to be announced. -- Readings: Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War; Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince; Karl Marx, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon"; Walter Lippman, Public Opinion; George Orwell, 1984; Daniel Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America; Kevin Phillips, Wealth and Democracy; Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire: Secrecy, Militarism, and the End of the Republic; James Moore, Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential. Invited speakers. 2-4 credits, by arrangement with instructor.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 20 March 2005 )
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