Panel 1: Barbara stands in a classroom, in front of a projector screen with the name of her course on it.
Barbara: Greetings, students. Welcome to English 216: Children's Literature.
Panel 2: She clicks through to the next slide, which is a picture of an Angry Bird with a "no" sign over it.
Barbara:
This class will be governed by a number of rules. The first is that
anyone caught texting will be assigned a twenty-page essay on Tom's Midnight Garden. The same goes for games of Angry Birds.
Panel 3:
Barbara: But the most important rule is this: if you so much as hint that the Twilight series may not be the Antichrist, you will be ejected immediately from the classroom and, if possible, the university.
Panel 4:
Student 1: Team Edward!
Student 2: Team Jacob!
Barbara [whips a spray can out of her pocket]: Did I mention the pepper spray?
Alt-Text: The
course number here is basically meaningless. I've encountered something
like four incarnations of this course in different universities, and
they all have different numbers; off the top of my head, I'm
remembering 224, 234, and 314, plus one with a kind of weird long
number with letters in it as well. As far as I can figure, there is no
real meaning to university course numbering. For instance, I'm teaching
English 888 this term. Why is it called English 888? Who knows? Are
there even eight hundred and eighty-eight English courses at this
university? Not even close. I think the courses are probably numbered
on a whim.
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