Enrolment was down. Even the girls with hair down to their hips and lazy smiles know better than to major in literature any more, so the chair had me develop a course to get butts on seats. I took a multidisciplinary approach — English, pol sci, history — to come up with "(Under)mining Consensus Reality: Conspiracy Theories". We read The Da Vinci Code and Holocaust on Trial, watched JFK, and then the students did a creative final — writing their own conspiracy theories.rnI got lots of 9/11 from junior leftists; man-made AIDS from the militant queers and Afrocentric kids; and comical suppositions about UFOs and American Idol from the rest.
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