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Volume 2, Issue 2 2/2/12 - 2/22/12
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Invent-O-Class: Extreme Poverty 302 adam carver wrote this
As we applied for classes, some of you come across a true gem of a class to fill your schedule. Walking 101, a film class, or any number of other truly slacker-friendly ways to advance your college education. But what if you could create a class? Like the movie Accepted, we will offer up a class every issue that really speaks to the last minute planners in us all. Extreme Poverty 302 (3 credits – ½ semester class) Prerequisites: Library 160, Econ 101 Required: All Majors Experience the extreme poverty that a growing number of Americans are forced to face every year. Learn about the history and usage of food stamps, Welfare, Social Security and master the ability to survive the harsh reality that your degree and debt will get you here. The class will consist of a 7-week course held Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 3:30 – 5:00 pm. The class is broken up into three units with a practical application of each as a means of assessment. The first section will consist of cardboard house and makeshift home construction. Actual homeless and Architecture faculty will head this topic. You’ll create a “home” that you will live in during one weekend during the semester to test its practicality. The final assessment in the will be a five minute presentation over what you have learned and wish to learn more about. This course is required for all majors, but has already been integrated into certain practicum.
The second section will be on pandering and hitchhiking. This will consist of standing at popular street corners, collecting spare change and redeemable cans and bottles and attempting to solicit rides to various places on campus (all money collected will be donated to local charities). The amount of money raised or rides given will determine your grade from this section.
Theatre, Music, and German majors have all jumped on board already, incorporating their respective backgrounds into the course. German Poverty 301 will be taught completely in German and focuses on the plight of World War II – Cold War Germany. Music and Theatre majors will experience all three units mentioned above, but will incorporate music and theatrical gimmicks during the second and third units. Music majors will sing the entire time.
The final section will consist of learning about poverty from the other side. This will comprise the last few weeks of the course. Tasks will include working local missions and shelters for those without a home, cooking and serving food at soup kitchens and collecting items for local food banks.
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Course can be retaken for senior credit with the added theme of zombies. Extreme Poverty 402 will contain all previous curricula with the idea of a zombie apocalypse occurring during the entire class. Survival and defensive weaponry will be emphasized greatly. Since our Bachelor’s Degrees won’t get us anywhere when you factor in the debt that said degree brings with it, Iowa State University has decided to best prepare its students for all avenues post-college. This course will prepare all alumni for worst-case scenarios after graduation. Though it isn’t Iowa State’s fault we need this class. It’s the economy and your budding alcoholism.
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