[C19fan]

Are there classes for Klingon and/or Romulian?

[AbolishCSEU]

Unreal. I just did a (very long) little test to “guess your education level” Now mind you, I graduated high school in the late seventies and took a few college courses—no degree.

I scored at PHD/Grad school level. Today’s youth are being ROBBED by “higher education.”

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Peterson told Berkeley News that the Game of Thrones world created by author George R.R. Martin “will serve as a kind of framing device for the course so students can focus on the linguistic details of their creations, not the fictional side.”

Some colleges play up this nonsense as a rudimentary way of learning linguistics. But learning a made up language in no way teaches you about the complex subtleties and long, rich history of the evolution of a real language.

No, what this really teaches you is that college is a very expensive marketing racket. 18 to 22 year old kids like Game of Thrones and will sign up for a class that lets them relive Game of Thrones. Young kids like sex too. Hence, all the college courses of sex and bondage, etc. Colleges aren't teaching kids what they need to know. Colleges are catering to kids' whims and desires and dressing it up as education to be able to charge a fortune for it.

[Fhios]

Non issue for me. Definitely enraged about the organized anti-free speech protesters. Think Trump should shut the college down as a safety hazard,.

But teaching a fantasy language is okay with me. Mark it under ‘the arts’.,

[FredZarguna]

Pretty sure that Dothraki consists entirely of hate speech.

[KC_Lion]

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg

thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

Wait, wrong series.

[Drew68]

a six-week course inspired by the fictional Dothraki and High Valyrian languages used by characters on the HBO series Game of Thrones

Only if she's teaching it.

[BlueLancer]

"Are there classes for Klingon and/or Romulan?"

[Sans-Culotte]

Can the class credits be applied toward a bachelor’s degree in Game of Thrones?

[tbw2]

There were in the past.
I thought the ones offering sign language were actually smart and inclusive.
Programming languages in place of a foreign language are probably of more use than someone learning French or German these days.

[pabianice]

[Drew68]

Valyrian is my mother tongue

[martin_fierro]

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[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Colleges have been teaching Tolkien’s Elvish language for years. Of course, Tolkien was a linguist whose fake language was logically structured. Martin is just a leftist crank.

[proud American in Canada]

LOL!

This should be extremely useful on the job market. These kids are racking up thousands of dollars in loans...or their parents are...for interesting, but pointless classes.

I am sure they can learn this stuff for for free on the Internet. But college credit for this?...

[proud American in Canada]

If they are not teaching Klingon and Romulan, may I suggest a good old-fashioned riot, complete with masks and broken windows! after all, how racist, speciest (sp?) can they be?

Not to mention ageist, since Star Trek was made a long time ago!

Language fascists! LOL!,,

(j/k, not at all advocating violence. It has just become so absurd.).