academic occupation theme
A character working in an academic institution is engaged in their chosen profession.
Notes
This includes studies at the higher levels of learning, e.g. doctoral students, as as such is generally considered to be training for an academic career.
25 total · 1 choice · 10 major · 14 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| novel: Stoner (1965) | choice | Most of the novel is set on a campus, and the we follow the protagonist's career as a professor of English literature. |
| ahh1x02 | major | The story is set in a college town and explores the unusual interests of some of its faculty members. |
| as1985e1x23 | major | Fred and Eva besought a university psychology professor, Dr. Fetlock, for aid in their bewilderment after Fred exhibited signs of super intelligence. They later demonstrated Fred's knowledge to an audience of professors drawn from various fields. |
| columbo1971e10x01 | major | Prof. D.E. Rusk was a criminology professor. He was shown giving a lecture, and later confronting two students over a stolen test. |
| movie: The Henderson Monster (1980) | major | The film is a tutorial in how to behave in the formal company of academics, move up the academic hierarchy, secure research grants, etc. |
| movie: The Man from Earth (2007) | major | The departing university professor John Oldman engaged in a film spanning academic discussion with his professor friends (a biologist, an art historian, an anthropologist, a historian, and an archaeologist) over whether he was really a caveman who'd secretly survived for more than 140 centuries. |
| movie: The Nutty Professor (2008) | major | The film is set at a futuristic science academy. |
| movie: Torn Curtain (1966) | major | We saw many fanciful scenes from academia as the authors of the story imagined it. |
| nightgallery2x02c | major | The entire story took place during a futuristic, yet familiar, university lecture by a Professor to his students. |
| novel: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1867) | major | Professor Lidenbrock was a stereotypical oblivious German academic who was interested solely in advancing science by disproving the prevailing theory that the Earth had an intense source of heat at its center. |