Villainous or Misunderstood?

Article and Photo by: Kaitlyn Shanks and Madison Howard, M&M TIPsters

“This class is really interesting; it lets you get into the villain’s perspective of things.” stated Elizabeth Roten, a rising freshman from Spring Hill, Tennessee. Elizabeth is taking the villains class here at UGA. The villains’ class learns about famous villains from stories and depicts their characteristics.
“ The reading and a lot of the videos we have watched in class. Discussion, I like analyzation,” said Dillon McDermott, a rising sophomore from Port Charlotte, Florida.
While we visited the class we witnessed a few of them giving their end of term projects, they were amazingly in depth and thorough. Many chose to defend the villains of popular tales and stories as they thought they had more sides to them than the original text might have explained. Maddy Longacre, a rising junior at H.B. Plant High School in Tampa, Florida, sketched and wrote out a screen play for a scene from Othello. Her project was incredibly detailed to the point where she would describe the camera angles and the shadows she would cast over the characters. Dillon, however, did something much more silly by writing a parody song of "Good Riddance" about this character that he related to.
Joe Lease from Athens, Georgia, the instructor for the Villains class, loves teaching tipsters. “I would say their enthusiasm, its much different from a typical school environment. They really get into the work and throw themselves into it.”
Overall, many students enjoyed the class and how they got into the different layers of stories and characters. Hopefully, next year, more TIPsters will enjoy this class as much as this years Tipsters did.