Take Me, Obama

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According to the Harvard Law School course catalog, professor Charles Ogletree will be teaching a reading group called “Understanding Obama” for one classroom credit during the 2013 spring term.
“This reading group will focus on the way in which race, religion, and politics have impacted the development of President Obama as a leader,” the Harvard Law School Course Catalog explains. “We will explore his views as a biracial child, his time as a student at Harvard Law School, the successes and failures of his political campaigns, and the way religion and his views on faith nearly derailed his campaign. Finally, time will be spent analyzing the challenges he faces as president of the United States in establishing both his domestic and global policies.”

h/t TimR

26 Replies to “Take Me, Obama”

  1. Can you get an “a” by not doing anything and voting present. Does the honour roll get handed out before the class even begins

  3. All students have to do is indicate they were present at the course, and they will get a pass.
    Just like Obama did in the Senate. How people think this man is so brilliant is beyond me.

  4. Can a student get a pass just by telling the prof that they intend to take the course and do really well in it. Hey – they might even get nominated for a Nobel – just sayin.

  5. How can they run a course that includes his time as a student. All records of his academic achievements have “disappeared”.

  6. Ha! Obambi is not a leader; first problem with this course. He is George Soros’s house bo.

  8. It should read – Harvard Law School – where the product of our enrolment policies and affirmative action is the upcoming bellwether for the survival of the US. Was the US too stupid to survive and therefore deserved him as the final President or was there a marginal sliver of residual rational judgement, enough to return him to these great halls of politically correct indoctrination, in this case, to lecture on his favourite subject, Obama, the One.

  15. Let’s face it – monumental to be the first Black American President. He (Obama)couldn’t have done it alone. This man has a unique insight into Obama and why shouldn’t he prosper from it? If University works the way it should, then the dialogue that happens at this course should be open and non-judgemental. Hopefully, students are courageous and curious in their questions. The real story lies in that.

  18. “I’m an Obama fan, I love the president — love him and his wife,” he explained. “
    Is this going to be a university level course or a meeting of a fan club?

  19. Hmmm, sounds like a religious course to me. They’ll get together to worship him in awe.

  20. “no grade, paper requirements or exam requirements”
    they must have a lot of courses like that. what a joke. expensive meaningless credentialism.

  21. were i a student i would LOVE to take this course – what fun… Of course SDA posts would be fodder for discussion put forward every day.

  22. The decline of the American education system continues apace.
    How do you study an empty suit?

  23. From Wikipedia
    In 2004 Harvard disciplined Ogletree for the plagiarism of six paragraphs from Yale scholar Jack Balkin’s book, What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said in his own book, All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education.[10] Ogletree apologized, saying that he “made a serious mistake during the editorial process of completing this book, and delegated too much responsibility to others during the final editing process.” Former Harvard President Derek C. Bok concluded, “There was no deliberate wrongdoing at all … He marshaled his assistants and parceled out the work and in the process some quotation marks got lost.”[11][12]
    Blame someone else, yep, Obama learned from him.

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