7 Fall college courses based on Twilight

you have GOT to be kidding me. The books have no merit to them whatsoever. All it is about is a shallow girl who falls in love with an abusive "vampire" who watches her when she sleeps and went suicidal when he left her.

This is disturbing. I guess I could see including these books in a pop culture class or something, but to devote an entire college course on them? Even a class on comic books or video games would be more understandable to me because at least we could get some new artists or designers out of those. With a classroom full of twilight fans we'll just get more drek!

I wouldn't pay to take a class on that! Especially since it isn't going to do anything for you when you graduate and look for a job.

This is just sad. Among most people who are actually serious about good literature, Twilight is garbage and not even worth commenting on.

Why twilight is popular:
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Sums it all up in less than five minutes. Remove all the $.

so sad. i couldn't even make it through the first book, i stopped reading it because it was boring and virgin-al.

the few movie clips i've seen online make me want to puke - quite possibly the worst acting i've ever seen. and this is what the next gen looks up to. this is what they'll be like. this is who they strive to be. $h!t, we're in for it.

wow, I have a BA in English and can't believe they wuold teach trash like twilight. Vampires in literature and film and referrencing twilight is one thing, but an entire course on the books? Complete waste of money and time.

Not only are the Twilight books badly written, someone apparently doesn't even value copyediting in this particular article. There are articles completely missing ("responsible for franchise's success"), the plural of "syllabus" should be "syllabi" - not "syllabuses", there are unnecessary commas, and she misspells both Anne Rice's and Lord Byron's names.
The standards for the English language have gone down dramatically - we shouldn't be surprised anymore that this type of writing is considered "journalism" and that college students think that the Twilight saga is great literature.

I think this is good, not because I think Twilight is a great work of art, or is going to be a timeless classic like Austin or Shakespere, but because teachers are trying to work with their audience. They see students respond to this and they are trying to get them enthusiastic about learning. Whatever it takes to get people to read is fine by me.

No, no, and NO! I'm all for great literature, vampires, and folklore in school, but Twilight as college courses are FREAKING ridiculous. Twilight is not literature, it's Stephenie Meyer's used toilet paper hinged together and printed at best.

Has everyone who comes up with college courses completely LOST their mind? You go to college to learn interesting and thought inducing things; not take courses on preteen garbage. All of this Twilight bulls*it went too far when the fans started injuring innocent people; and now... well, I can't even tell you how far off this is.

It's a shameful world we live in, and all of this nonsense in schools and colleges need to stop.

I find this quite sad. Although I did read and enjoy the twilight books, but college courses based on this? Its pathetic to me. I mean, honestly like Twilight, but i just find this sad what education has come too.

FIRST AND FOREMOST THEY GOT RID OF RELIGION IN SCHOOLS. BUT GOT APPROVED TO HAVE COURSES BASED ON DEMONS, VAMPIRES AND ALL OTHER THINGS UNHOLY. LIKE COME ON PEOPLE, OUR PRIORITIES ARE MESSED UP. PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE "WALKING DEAD", AND DONT GIVE A f--- ABOUT THE LIVING. WHY CANT YOU HAVE COURSES ABOUT HAVING A f--- ING HEART AND HELPING YOUR FELLOW MAN, REGARDLESS OF THEIR AGE, SEX, RACE, RELIGION AND CREED. NO YOU CANT DO THAT, BUT GUESS WHAT.... " I HAVE TO GO, I DONT WANT TO BE BE LATE FOR MY VAMPIRE CLASS". DUMB ASS PEOPLE, AND THE PROFESSORS NEED TO GET SLAPPED.

And this is why my AP Euro teacher is looking forward to dying (he's almost there, just another decade or two). I can't believe it. Wait, scratch that. I can believe it, and that's why it's so depressing.

thats funny. how is are these classes like the twilight saga supposed to help you in the long run?

If this is the best they can come up with, soon a college diploma will be worth nothing.

the thought that we have to read such a stupid series makes me wanna PUKE!! i will never run her books! there are better writers to read!

I didn't think I would like the books, and I am a college student. Would I take a class on it? Only if I had an elective left (I am graduating this semester, yay me!).
However, at least kids are reading. Honestly, kids just don't read that much anymore with the popularity of the internet, TV and video games. Reading ANYTHING builds vocabulary in ways no TV show can. I think Stephanie Meyer is to be commended for reaching a demographic that would be otherwise engaged.
ps- I LOVE EDWARD. (had to get that in there)

easy A for my daughter and me!

why twilight? isn't it a 4th grade level book? and some people compare to real literature

The majority of the courses mentioned are not *solely* about Twilight. What the author of this post is failing to mention is that Vampires in Literature is not a new concept. Yes, Stephanie Meyer has b------ ized the mythology of vampires. But the study of the supernatural in fiction goes back to victorian literature. Personally, I own theoretical texts on Vampires in fiction and the study of the vampire as mythos.

Secondly, to say "leave it to Harvard" to add psychoanalytical theory is disregarding the study of literature as a whole. In any reputable English program, theory is a basis for the study of all types of literature. I study far from the ivy walls; however, I have never taken an upper level Literature course that did not involve theory in some way. Please do not make it sound like college is dumbing down to students by one or two schools teaching popular culture while others are teaching something that has been in existence for over a century.