The Massachusetts Institute Of Technology has placed their entire curriculum online, much to the delight of every potential nuclear or biological terrorist with an Internet cafe and a dream. (Seriously, I like that the next Ramanujan can now access the entire MIT mathematics program, or at least many portions of it. On the other hand, if the State Department will not even let us export Play Stations for fear of the technology falling into the wrong hands, what are we to make of MIT's whole EE curriculum (and Chem E and Nuclear and Mech E and Physics being on the web for anyone. Elmo assures me this doesn't make a difference.) So, seeing this, I got to thinking, what do the comics universities' online programs look like?
Over at Empire State we have the med school teaching their android course. Over in the physics department, Reed Richards, meanwhile, is teaching "Interdimensional Travel and How to Avoid Blastaar" in the Cosmology Department with special guest lecturer Dr. Stephen Strange. Sadly, Dr. Strange's lecture requires not just a Pentium box but a hexagram. In the journalism school, adjunct J. Jonah Jameson has posted his popular course on covering superheroes: "Inflammatory Headlines: Threat or Menace."
Oh, and if you happen to be on campus don't miss Dr. Banner's thesis defense for his second Ph. D. dissertation in the economics department "Why Property Insurance Can Be the Basis of a Planned Economy." Just don't get him angry. You won't like him when he's angry.
And, over at Ivy University, Ray Palmer has posted the lectures for his courses "White Dwarf Matter and Demolitions Technology" with a guest lecture by Brainiac 5. Also of note is his article "Angel on My Shoulder: Why I Prefer to be Six Inches Tall Rather than Just Make a Regular Sized Costume Out of Normal Cloth."
Posted by Mike Chary at March 17, 2005 11:04 PM