"Occupy" Course Offered At Columbia University

Dr. Hannah Appel will teach a full credit course in the Anthropology dept. about the national and global demonstrations titled "Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement." Dr. Appel has been heavily involved in the Occupy movement including camping at Zuccotti Park. "It is important to push back against the rhetoric of 'disorganization' or 'a movement without a message' coming from left, right and center," she wrote.

Appel told the Post that she would be as impartial as possible despite her close ties to the protests. "Inevitably, my experience will color the way I teach," she said. "But I feel equipped to teach objectively. It's best to be critical of the things we hold most sacred." Appel earned her PhD in Anthropology from Stanford. Her current project is "Futures", based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the transnational oil and gas industry in equatorial Guinea.

What course would you teach if you could teach anything you wanted?

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[MrGnarus]

film propaganda and the american ethos

[PalmDreams]

History of the Illuminatti..,bilderburg group and NWO

[Trusseck]

I would honestly attend a course about The Wire if such a thing existed; its portrayal of contemporary social and economic conditions in Baltimore, and, indeed, its implications toward those elsewhere in the world lead me to consider it a must-see for anyone and everyone.

[religiousabuse]

@hdfailure i know

[hdfailure]

@religiousabuse Fail

[Kooshkff]

Most important problem in the 60s was the Cuban missle crisis. We could use anoher JFK.

[wasy35]

I'll major in revolution, ahahahaha finally. 

[religiousabuse]

1st

[canascot02]

the country? it's across the globe lol