NYU to offer class(es) on Occupy Wall Street

posted at 11:28 am on December 13, 2011 by Howard Portnoy
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A newly released Gallup poll finds that the fear of big government in the U.S. has reached near-record levels. These findings are discouraging news not only for the president, who is a staunch believer in the power of government to solve all the nation’s ills, but for the Occupy Wall Street movement, which views big business—not big government—as the overarching problem. Writes Gallup.com’s Deputy Managing Editor Elizabeth Mendes:

The majority of Americans do not view big business as the greatest threat to the country when asked to choose among big business, big government, and big labor. In fact, Americans’ concerns about big business have declined significantly since 2009.

Additionally, while Occupy Wall Street isn’t necessarily affiliated with a particular party, its anti-big business message may not be resonating with majorities in any party….

This does not mean that OWS doesn’t have something to smile about. The movement, which has been in search of a solution since its startup three months ago, will be the focus of a course, possibly two, at New York University next semester.

Julia Seymour of CNSNews quotes a free student paper as stating that the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA) will offer a course exploring the “history and politics of debt and take a deeper look at the economic crisis the movement is protesting.”

SCA Professor Lisa Duggan, who will be teaching the course, is quoted directly by the Washington Square News as saying:

Occupy Wall Street has done us all the service of illuminating [the fact] that the economy operates within the framework of political, social and cultural conflicts, and not outside them.

The only fly in the ointment, as Seymour notes, is that you would need to be in OWS’s hated 1 percent to pay the tuition bill at NYU, where course credits run $1,159 per, making the school the second most expensive college in America.

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