Babylon 5 in College Courses?

[B5JMS Poster]

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
From: norville at sirius.com
Date: 2 Nov 2000 09:28:11 -0700
Lines: 17

In article <8ts18a$4ia$1 at lure.pipex.net>, "Shaz" <hypatia at Dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> Well, I'm a philosophy professor (or was. These days I'm looking into IT
> jobs since I can't get a teaching one) and I used B5 episodes for teaching
> Ethics, Metaphysics and Sci Fi and Philosophy (emphasis on the Philosophy. I
> used the Sci Fi as a jumping off point to make them view the problems from a
> different perspective.) My students informed me they weren't the easiest
> courses they'd ever taken, but they certainly were informative and made them
> think which, after all, is the aim.

Shaz, I would've loved to have you as a teacher. :-) (It's just a shame
that my school years ended long before B5 existed...)

-- 
norville at sirius.com
"...To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
<*> "Ulysses" by Tennyson <*>


=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 2 Nov 2000 16:20:00 -0700
Lines: 14

I believe there was a class in "The Philosophy of Babylon 5" (or words to that
effect) at the University of Illinois at Urbana for at least one semester.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2000 by
synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
to reprint specifically denied to
SFX Magazine)




-***
-*** B5JMS SUBSCRIBERS: Replies to messages go to the list maintainer,
-*** <b5jms-owner at cs.columbia.edu>.  If you want to reply elsewhere, adjust
-*** the "To" field.  See http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/b5jms/ for all
-*** other information about this list.