Penn @ Penn

Colleges & Universities University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Kal Penn (better known as Kumar) is going to teach a two lecture classes at Penn next spring.</p>

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<p>that is fantastic! i really wanted to watch the namesake but it’s not in any of the movie theaters near me… boo</p>

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<p>Ah I Love Kal Penn!!!</p>

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<p>although like some of the commenters on the article, i am wondering what his teaching qualifications are…?</p>

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<p>If he’s teaching in the Cinema Studies department, he does have a degree from UCLA film school and has had parts in film production.</p>

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<p>He teaches us how to be sexy Kal Penn style</p>

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<p>Doesn’t he also have a degree in Sociology ?</p>

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<p>i want to take a cinema studies class so that should be awesome</p>

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<p>Kal Penn, known for his role as Kumar Patel in the 2004 cult classic “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,” will be a guest instructor at the University of Pennsylvania during the spring 2008 semester.
Penn, 29, will teach two undergraduate courses, tentatively titled, “Images of Asian Americans in the Media” and “Contemporary American Teen Films,” the school announced Monday.</p>

<p>“The Asian American Studies Program is delighted that Kalpen Modi, aka Kal Penn, chose our program to host his teaching engagement at Penn,” program director Grace Kao said. “Mr. Modi is one of the leading Asian American actors of his generation and is particularly aware of how his racial and ethnic identification has affected his professional experiences.”</p>

<p>Students can enroll in the courses as Asian American studies or cinema studies programs in Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences, Kao said.</p>

<p>Penn co-starred with John Cho, who played Harold Lee, in “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.” His screen credits also include “Epic Movie,” “Van Wilder” and “Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj.”</p>

<p>He recently finished shooting “Harold & Kumar 2” with Cho.</p>

<p>The university said Penn, a native of Montclair, N.J., received a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a specialization in theater, film and television from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is pursuing a graduate certificate in international security at Stanford University.</p>

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<p>even better</p>

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<p>Meh, he’s getting a certificate from Stanford. He can’t be too stupid :P.</p>

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<p>Kal Penn is my hero!!! and those courses sound pretty interesting…</p>

<p>it’s not a ph.D, i know, but he double-majored in Film and Sociology at UCLA, and i know he’s given talks about asian americans in the media before…</p>

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<p>who cares that he doesn’t have a phd he was in a movie (probably makes for interesting lectures)!</p>

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<p>i def want to take one or two cinema studies courses at penn, and having kal penn as a prof would be so chill… i hope there aren’t any preqs tho</p>

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<p>Hopefully the prereqs will either be watch Harold and Kumar or be Indian/Asian. I fulfill both :)</p>

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<p>hahah awesome. I’d take his class more for entertainment value though than with the expectation of learning something utterly profound.</p>

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<p>I’d take his class just to breathe the air he breathes.</p>

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<p>how can u teach without any qualifications…</p>

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<p>^I wonder the same thing about half the teachers at my school</p>

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<p>those classes sound really really interesting… id like to take those classes</p>

<p>and when is the next movie comin out?</p>