Dougllas J. Feith syllabus

[rodeodance]

http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2006_05_21_patriotboy_archive.html#114862534883951385
> Professor Feith and the huge, fat, orange weapon of mass destruction
>
> I checked into a report at Note Parlante de Point that Douglas Feith had been hired to teach at Georgetown. Apparently it's true.
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> Here's part of the syllabus for the class he's teaching.
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> POLI SCI 430
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> Fiction Driven Foreign Policy
> (Fall 2006)
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> Douglas J. Feith
> An undisclosed Location
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> COURSE DESCRIPTION
> This course introduces students to the use of fiction to promote foreign policy initiatives. Students will study the latest methods for undermining reality-based analysis using fantasy, fiction, treachery, torture and ad hominem argumentation.
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> COURSE REQUIREMENTS
> 1. General Requirements
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> Students are expected to:
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> # make outrageous claims and defend them by viciously attacking anyone who tries to refute them by employing logic.
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> # Convince the rest of the class that the instructor is not the stupidest fucking person they've ever met.
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> # Convince the dean of the School of Foreign Service that the instructor deserves tenure as a reward for establishing that ties exist between the Women's Studies Program and the heretofore unknown Islamunist Revolutionary Front.
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> # Demonstrate that the Syracuse mascot, a huge fat orange, is in fact a mobile biological weapons lab and a contributor to Move On.
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> # Be prepared to inflict pain slightly less agonizing that which is associated with organ failure to randomly selected classmates.
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> # Successfully defend one of the following claims:
> A) Ronald Reagan invented television
> B) Ann Coulter is a woman
> C) Intelligent Design is Science
> D) We've turned the corner in Iraq
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> GRADE COMPILATIONS
> Students' final grades will be compiled based upon:
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> * Inflicting pain slightly less than that experienced during organ failure (10%)
> * Convincing student Senate to pass a resolution calling for the death or enslavement of The George Washington University studentbody (20%)
> * Betraying a CIA Agent (30%)
> * Getting tenure for the instructor (50%)
> * Assassinating that shifty looking professor of French Studies(10 %)
> * Convincing the Washington Post to print an article declaring that the above grade compilations total 100% (1%--it's too easy)..........
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[boobooday]

1. Required Reading

Orwell's 1984

[Doctor_J]

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