University of Pennsylvania Students Watched Porn and Surfed the Web for Academic Credit
Tuition at this school is over $60,000 per year.
Ben Parker reported at the College Fix.
Ivy League students watched porn, browsed Internet for academic credit
University of Pennsylvania’s ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’ course lived up to its name
This past spring, the University of Pennsylvania offered an English class called “Wasting Time on the Internet,” which included, among other assignments, watching porn during class.
Other experiences ranged from “spreading rumors across the internet to simply filming [themselves]… for the entire 3-hour class,” according to a freshman who took the seminar.
As for the porn assignment, the student, who asked to remain anonymous, said in an email to The College Fix that the class sat in a circle in a crowded university building “and played the same porn video on our computers at the same time on full volume.”
“It created a very uncomfortable environment for us – some of the class even got up part of the way through and left because they were uncomfortable,” she stated, adding other students on campus apparently did not notice the group porn viewing.
“People … didn’t even hear or notice, to my knowledge,” she said.
She described the pornography screening as part of a series of “experiments based on discomfort – trying to make the most uncomfortable environment possible.”
Ivy League students watched porn, browsed Internet for academic credit (The College Fix)
Comments
Gosh, when I was at Penn (Class of ’69 – no snickering), porn films were shown by the student association as a fundraiser, and screened in the magnificent Irvine Auditorium. No credit, though. At least our price of admission was a fraction of this course’s tuition. And the purpose was definitely not to make us uncomfortable. Heh.
Maybe they’re just trying to get an advantage when applying for government jobs in the future.
“Wasting time on the internet” is far preferable to a class about that dead, white male, William Shakespeare. Bravo, Penn! /sarcasm