Advanced Common Man Studies
Each student will be provided with one real common man who lacks a job, ambition, intelligence, or any personal character to speak of. The goal of the course will be to complete a 24-volume biographical thesis of the assigned common man, covering all major and minor events from birth through death. The student is expected to follow his or her common man around each day, and to take detailed notes on the environmental, cultural, and economic stimuli that compel the common man to remain a pathetic, unmotivated bum.
A significant part of the student's grade will consist of the "Walk a Mile in My Shoes" research project, in which the student will be asked to live the remainder of his or her life as an actual "common man". Grades will strongly reflect the student's ability to empathize with those less fortunate than ourselves.
(Putting the common man out of his misery by suffocating him with a pillow during his sleep will not be tolerated, and will result in a reduction of a full grade point.)
