Buffy really is revered on college campuses

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It just fascinates me so much that Buffy is respected intellectually.

After some quick searches heres what I found:

At the Yale School of Management Midterm a Buffy question was added as a bonus (though not for any grade purposes):

Bonus Question for a pack of M&M's: Last season Buffy's mother (Joyce) died. When Dawnwanted to bring her back to life she was repeatedly warned of the terrible things that would befallher and her mother if this was attempted. Then in this year's season opener Willow brings Buffyback to life. What explanation was given as to why it was possible to bring Buffy back but notJoyce?

Answer: Joyce died from natural causes while Buffy died from supernatural ones. Thus, it was possible to use magic to bring Buffy back.
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http://64.233.161.104/u/yaleu?q=cac...MidtermFall01Answers.pdf+Buffy&hl=en&ie=UTF-8


And countless others including a course at Cornell:

Gender and Writing: "The woman warrior": From Boudicca to "Buffy"

From Homer to Maxine Hong Kingston, from Bernard Shaw to James Cameron, warrior women have captured the imagination of poets, scholars, and film-makers. This course seeks to investigate the figure of the woman warrior as she has been understood at different historical moments and in various artistic genres. Beginning in mythological times, we will chart the history of this figure through texts as diverse as Herodotus's Histories, Disney's Mulan, and the WB's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The endpoint to our trajectory will be the question: what roles have these warrior women played in the development of "feminism" as we know it? Exercises will include close readings, oral presentations, spontaneous group-based brainstorming, and a long-term research project.
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http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute/Spring2004/167350.html


Maybe Joss didn't receive the ratings he deserved, but I would rather have academic scholars discussing my show than to have the ratings of Friends.
 
That last one is very sociological. And it kinda fits into the Body in Society course I'm doing at the moment. I'm learning about Gender in society at the moment and how Men are seen as Masculine (Aggressive and Independent) and women have always been seen as the weaker sex until the 60s. Very interesting. But I really doubt that they would use Buffy as an example.
 
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