View Full Version : UC Berkeley’s Game of Thrones class requires students to read Rousseau and Foucault


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08-01-2015, 06:29 AM
http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/07/31/game-of-thrones-a-class-unto-itself/

The summer course at UC Berkeley — where more than 100 fossilized dire wolf remains are curated — challenges its 27 students to "explore questions about what Game of Thrones may be saying about democracy, climate change, comparisons or contrasts of medieval battles and today’s warfare and torture, corruption of the American Dream, global havoc, and how human bodies – especially those of women, the disabled or poor – both possess, and yield to, power,” according to a university press release. PLUS: See Game of Thrones stars when they were young (http://www.avclub.com/article/even-stars-game-thrones-were-awkward-teenagers-onc-223190).