Why My Job is Kind of Great
April 22, 2010
(In addition to frequently paying me to do nothing.)
Readers of this blog might, I feel, have a somewhat incorrect impression that I hate my job or that it is somehow unpleasant. Not so. Working at the place I work is endlessly frustrating and this job, like every job, gets tiresome after a while, but actually teaching the students is frequently awesome.
This semester so far we have had classes on:
- How hippies changed the American view of drug use
- “Mean Girls” and American teen movies
- Pondering why so many women in Hollywood become successful by playing strippers or prostitutes
- Gang culture and “West Side Story”
- The Gay Marriage Debate
- What is Gay Culture? (this class was at an Italian restaurant)
- The role of Unilever in the economy of Ghana
- The globalization of the music industry
- Racism, gender roles and marriage in the virtual world “SecondLife”
- Will babies of this age think that Kindles are books and books are garbage?
- Al Jazeera and the US Military
- “Jersey Shore” and Russians in Reality Television
Next week in one of my classes we’re watching “Mad Men”.
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1. What is Gay Culture? (this class was at an Italian restaurant)
I like that you point out the location. I wonder what the Russian play on Italian food is like. It must be…intriguing.
2. I did think that you hated your job.
3. “The role of Unilever in the economy of Ghana”
4. This class syllabus could essentially be that of a Cultural Studies course at New School. Just sayin’
I think you have me beat, but I have had.
1. Hipsters – an American cultural phenomenon (culminated with the essay : Are you a hipster? Would you like to be one?)
2. African-American Hip Hop : From Coolio to Young Jeezy
3. A viewing of Spike Lee´s Do the Right Thing
4. Coyotes on the U.S.-Mexican Border
I have to incorporate the gays forthwith!