University Offers Flirting Class to Computer Science Students

Potsdam University in Germany is offering formal instruction in flirting to IT graduate students:

The 440 students enrolled in the master's degree course will learn how to write flirtatious text messages and emails, impress people at parties and cope with rejection.

Philip von Senftleben, an author and radio presenter who will teach the course, summed up his job as teaching how to "get someone else's heart beating fast while yours stays calm."


Link via Geekologie | Photo by Flickr user sflovestory used under Creative Commons license | Previously: Helping Geeks Meet Women

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I agree that learning interpersonal skills like flirting is important, however, it really has no place as part of secondary level education.

As for Germany, and correct me if I'm wrong, it seems awfully liberal in that aspect and others as well (e.g. providing government coverage for homeopathy "treatments"). I guess they are just giving the people what they want no matter how dumb and counterproductive it is. It seems they are doing OK though. Just hope we all aren't heading for a state of idiocracy.
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it's funny, I only have the gift of gab when i'm sure it isn't going anywhere. as soon as it looks like, hey, this might happen, i immediately transform into a bumbling idiot.
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@Briannana

Why? Is being honest with ourselves and recognising the things which are important that we never learned, and not assuming that we know even though we don't? I think this mindset is better than thinking we are at the pinnacle of human development without looking at our personal individual weaknesses.
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Absinthe strainer, of course. Sugar cube on the spikes, slow drip of ice water over the spoon and into the glass of pure wormwood extract - psychadelic heaven. Doesn't everybody have one of these?

I <3 Science, small.
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This is a self-scritcher for cats. With the points facing down, the cat takes the handle into his/her mouth and uses the self-scritcher to get at those hard to reach itchy spots. A favorite location for all cats is just at the base of the tail. However, self-scritching in this body area often leads to the cat adopting a pose most cats consider to be highly undignified: chest to the ground, hind legs on tippy-toes with butt and tail waving high in the air. Most cats try to avoid using the self-scritcher in public, and thus far, have avoided being recorded with one and the subsequent video placed on YouTube.com.

T-shirt: "Mad Fiction" OR "Wolf"
Color: Black for either
Size: 2xl for either
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Victor Frankenstein couldn't bring himself to destroy his creature, but he couldn't allow the creature to live without punishment for his murders. Thus, Victor invented this and told his creature it was better than toilet paper.

Grumpy xl
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It's an antique outhouse toilet paper holder. Since they didn't have 'toilet paper' on a roll in the olden days they hung Sears and Roebuck's catalog sheets on the prongs, nice and handy and oh, so close by. It also did double duty for reaching that hard to get bit in the back when your arm just isn't strong enough to... The more modern version held catalog sheets AND corncobs, BTW. But not this one.

Here's looking at Euclid men's Large
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It's obviously a torture spoon for the one-fisted masochist in your life who has everything. Could use some sharpening, though.

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No Guts No Glory, Ladies Fit M, please
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Most people think this is some type of handheld tool, but they have the scale all wrong. It's actually about three feet long and is an antique luge, used during the first winter olympics held during the Spanish Inquisition.

Made in America with Irish Parts 2X
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