Student Learner:                                      Arthur Dent

Current Programme: Pan-Galactic Administration

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Department: Bureaucracy, Red Tape, and Vogon Poetics

Duration: 3 Earth Years (or 42 seconds if traveling at Infinite Improbability speeds)

Overview: Are you tired of being just another carbon-based lifeform wondering why you’re here? Do you have a passion for filing paperwork in triplicate, burying planning notices in the bottom of locked filing cabinets (behind a door marked ‘Beware of the Leopard’), and making the universe a slightly more inconvenient place?

The Pan-Galactic Administration programme is designed for those who realize that the secret to ruling the galaxy isn't through force, but through the sheer, grinding power of the Committee. This course will equip you with the skills to manage star systems you haven't visited, for people you don't like, using technology you don't understand.

Programme Modules

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The Philosophy of "Not My Problem"

PGA101

A foundational module on how to effectively delegate responsibility to a department that doesn't exist.

 


 
 
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Advanced Obfuscation and Jargon

PGA102

Learn to write reports so dense that they actually develop their own gravitational pull. Includes a practical seminar on "The Art of the Passive-Aggressive Memo."


 
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Planning for Hyperspace Bypasses

PGA204

A practical guide to the legal destruction of inhabited planets. Note: Local planning notices for this module have been on display in your local star system's Alpha Centauri office for fifty years. If you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's your own lookout.
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Tea and its Administrative Irrelevance

PGA305

An in-depth study of why the universe is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a nice cup of tea.

 

 

 

Student Learning Pathway

  1. Enrolment: Complete the 4,000-page psychic enrolment form. If your head explodes, you have failed the entrance exam.
  2. Orientation: A lecture on why you are fundamentally insignificant in the grand scheme of the cosmos. Refreshments will be served, but they will be lukewarm.
  3. The Mid-Term Crisis: Students are required to lose their towels in a remote part of the Outer Rim and find their way back using only a sub-ether sensitive thumb and a sense of entitlement.
  4. Final Thesis: A 10,000-word essay on "The Benefits of Multi-Dimensional Red Tape."

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Project a sense of total authority while having no idea what is going on.
  • Successfully bypass the Infinite Improbability Drive’s tendency to turn their office into a bowl of petunias.
  • Understand why the answer is 42, but successfully argue in a committee meeting that it should actually be 43 for tax purposes.
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