UK University Helps Students Learn Ways of the Jedi

The force will now be with university students: Queen’s University in Belfast is offering a new course on Jedi knights that it hopes will impart universal lessons to students, be they fans of Star Wars or not, the Telegraph reports. The one-day class, entitled “Feel the Force: How to Train in the Jedi Way,” promises to teach “real-life psychological techniques behind Jedi mind tricks.”

For $40, students can explore the films’ wider issues “like balance, destiny, dualism, fatherhood and fascism.” The course’s instructor said the class isn’t just to indulge sci-fi geeks: It’s also “about the sociological and political issues that are addressed in the films. I am trying to find a platform through popular culture to bring people back to learning.”
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