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Up to seven students returning to classes Monday at the state University at Buffalo will learn about narrative storytelling, the drug trade and related topics through the exploits of fictional chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin Walter White and his TV show, "Breaking Bad."
"Breaking Down 'Breaking Bad,'" a graduate seminar being offered this semester, will analyze the acclaimed AMC television series' storyline, development and execution, according to the UB Reporter.
Six of of the seven seats available for the three credit-hour seminar were taken as of this morning, according to the university academic schedule.
The course was developed by Bruce Jackson, James Agee Professor of American Culture at the university's Department of English.
Jackson and his wife, Diane Christian, who also teaches English at the university, were teaching a films class when one of the students recommended they watch "Breaking Bad." They soon were hooked, the Daily Orange reported. When he told some students who also were devotees that someone should teach a seminar based on the show, they encouraged him to do it.
The show's "epic narrative" intrigued him, Jackson said.
The series, which ended Sept. 29 after five seasons, follows White as he turns to making meth to finance his cancer treatments and support his family, then becomes addicted to the thrills of the trade.
"This is not just an interesting TV program," Jackson told UB Reporter. "'Breaking Bad' goes into narrative and human and social complexity as no TV program has before. It is not like 'The Sopranos,' which was episodic; it is not like 'The Wire,' which was segmented. And it is not like 'Homeland,' which has had to direct itself into a new narrative. It is one epic narrative 60 hours long. We've never had that before, in any medium."
Guest speakers will include representatives from the Drug Enforcement Agency and Jim Milles, who teaches legal ethics at the university's law school.
The course is listed under the Department of Visual Studies and cross-listed by Media Study, Theater and Dance and the university law school. It's limited to 16 students who are required to have watched the entire series before they enroll.
"Breaking Down 'Breaking Bad'" isn't the only college course inspired by an AMC television series, the Huffington Post said. Students at the University of California-Irvine can take an online course based on "The Walking Dead," and the University of California-Berkeley has offered a course spun off of "Mad Men."