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Have an insatiable desire for Robert Pattinson that you can’t express within the confines of Princeton’s academic setting? There’s no need to hide it anymore! Many Princeton professors are turning to mainstream movies, books, and music to create their syllabi.  Here’s a list of some spring semester highlights:

1) COM372: The Gothic Tradition

Interspersed with Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher are Stephanie Meyer’s Twlight and Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. You’ll get to examine the “persistence in contemporary culture” of these popular vampire stories.

2) ENG335: Children’s Literature
This course is the academic equivalent of pulling Twister out at high school slumber parties. You’ll get to relive your favorite bedtime stories with the pretense of examining how “stories written for children reflect and shape the lives of their readers.” Among the books you’ll read are Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Phantom Tollbooth, and Where the Wild Things Are.

3) AMS401: At Home in New Jersey
Ever wonder what there is to New Jersey culture? In this course you will get to explore how spaces are constructed by looking at some of the great works produced by New Jersians.  You will analyze Bruce Springsteen’s Greetings from Ashbury Park along with that esteemed token of New Jersey, Harold and Kumar Go to Whilte Castle.