This class is team taught. At
each class meeting, one of the professors will present material in a lecture followed by discussion. You are expected to prepare before class to participate in the discussion by doing the required readings
or by getting wasted with the professors.
A Syllabus can be found by clicking the link in the Navigation Bar
1806-200: Care of Bocephus
Professor Garrison
This class fulfills the science requirement of the Eighteen O'Six major.
Each student will learn the best way to train and care for a small puppy. Then, in order to provide a contrast to Doctor Garrison's techniques, Professor
Hernandez will give a series of guest lectures, entitled “How To Give a Dog Antisocial Personality Disorder”. Students will be expected to clean up after Bocephus, including, but not limited to,
the shit on the floor in front of the back entrance.
1806-211: Sex and Eighteen O'Six
Professors Muha, Baumgarten and Gonzalez
This class fulfills the science requirement of the Eighteen O'Six major.
Sex and Eighteen O'Six will be an intensive look into the sexual
habits of the members of the Eighteen O'Six community. The course will focus
on the crucial concepts of the culture, such as “The Walk of Shame from Darnell” and “Sailing” as
well as important techniques, such as “Hickeys” and “Proper Use of Feet”. Students will be expected to be able to demonstrate mastery of these techniques on Professor Muha. Any attempts to demonstrate these techniques on Professors Baumgarten or Gonzalez
will lead to immediately failure, as they find them disgusting. This class will
also feature a guest lecture by Professor Ryan entitled “Abstinence Despite Your Best Efforts”.
1806-249: Games and Leisure
Activities of Eighteen O'Six
Professors Yates, HanCOCK.
This course fulfills the culture requirement of the Eighteen O'Six major.
Students must have demonstrated a mastery of “drinking” before
enrolling in 1806-249. This course will focus on the activities of the members
of the Eighteen O'Six culture while avoiding “studying” and “class”.
It will consist of an in depth look at “Dirty Jenga”, “Sailing”, “Stair Tobogganing”,
“Prank Calling Val” and “Kings”. Students will be required
to engage in all of the activities listed above as well as be able to convince Val, using only the internet, that Bocephus
is hanging from the second story window in some form of pulley device in order to pass the class.
1806-300: The Power Hour
Professor Ryan
This course fulfills the music requirement of the Eighteen O'Six major.
In it, students will be taught how to create a power hour, with a focus on
proper cutting technique, so as to avoid “blue-ball songs”, as well as on proper song order. The final will require the student to create a power hour with the appropriate songs and to finish it with
the instructor. Students will need a song editing program, a shot glass and a
thirty pack of Miller High Life.
1806-319: Indigenous Music
Professors Ryan, Muha, Yates.
This course fulfills the music requirement of the Eighteen O'Six major.
In this three part course, the students will be taught the origins, words and
choreography of important drinking hymns from the Eighteen O'Six culture as “Keg in the Closet”, “Piano
Man”, “The Georgetown Fight Song”, and “Amazed”, among others. Students will be expected to master each song’s origin, words and choreography and be able to reproduce
them in during the final while hammered beyond the ability to see English.
1806-321 Advanced Readings in Eighteen
O’Six
Professors Gonzalez, Quinn
This class will focus on materials that are read over and over in the Eighteen
O’Six community. Professors Quinn and Gonzalez will focus on how these
texts inform the Eighteen O’Six culture, with particular emphasis and each of their personal research interests. Below is a tentative partial reading list.
The LA Times
Time Magazine
Facebook and AIM Profiles
Playboy December 2004
Liquor Labels
Jessica’s (the feet girl’s) Paper Towel Note
Neighbors’ angry letters
Page 257 of Val’s Psychology Textbook
1806-344 Business of Eighteen O’Six
Professors, Baumgarten, Muha
Professors Muha and Baumgarten will begin with an introduction to the legal
framework of the Eighteen O’Six business environment, including the Blue Laws of Maryland, DC, and Virginia
and the Statutory Rape Laws of Darnall Hall, Visitation High School,
and Paul VI High School. The instruction will then focus on the many different areas of negotiation common
to the community, including the dog, chores, the neighbors, and drinking. Finally
students will master the Eighteen O’Six style of negotiation: LOUD NOISES.
1806-350: Famous Quotes of 1806
Professors Yates, HanCOCK
This course fulfills the culture requirement of the Eighteen O'Six major.
This course is an in depth examination of the quotations that dominate the
Eighteen O'Six culture. Students will look at the significance of these quotes, the quotes origins as well as the importance
of the mythical “El Tigre” figure that is credited with many of the quotes.
Special importance will be placed on the three main quotations of the culture: “I’d sail her Panama Canal”,
“Hi, my name is [fill in name] and I’m going to Hell” and “I’m from a Third World Banana Republic,
we’re used to eating crumbs from the trash”. Students will be required
to have a high tech recording device and will be instructed in its proper use as well as how to protect it from damage from
liquids by Professor HanCOCK.
1806-365: Abnormal Psychology of 1806
Professors Ryan, HanCOCK
This course will allow the students to study the abnormalities of the denizens
of the Eighteen O'Six culture. Students will get hands on experience with such
disorders as obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, autism, antisocial personality disorder
in both humans and dogs, paraphelias (especially foot fetishes), seasonal affective disorder and the effects of sexual frustration
on both females in a relationship and single females. Students will be required
to sign a waiver before being allowed to work with the sexually frustrated females.
1806-481 Full Immersion Study
Staff
Cross-listed as graduate course 1806-650,
undergraduates req. approval from instructor
This course is only for the most advanced students of Eighteen O’Six. Not for the faint of heart, or the sober. Requires
direct contact with the members of the Eighteen O’Six community and spending a night on the couch. As part of the assessment, you will need to demonstrate drunkenness, incoherence, mindless absorption in
the TV screen, and be clinically diagnosed with autism.
1806-621: Gaby
Staff
Permission of the Instructor Required
This graduate level course requires that the student have studied at Eighteen
O'Six and be fluent in Eighteen O'Six and is available to seniors and graduate students only.
In the course, students will study the enigmatic sometimes resident of Eighteen O'Six who is the basis for many of
the most important concepts of the Eighteen O'Six culture, including “Sailing”, “Eating Out of the Trash”,
“Third World Banana Republics” and most of the indigenous music. This
is a two semester course, but is only taught from August through October and March through May due to the subject’s
intolerance for any temperature below 60 degrees Fahrenheit.