A 'Game Of Thrones' Themed Course at Harvard?

If you're anything like me, you just cannot wait for the next episode of Game of Thrones. The second an episode finishes waiting a week for the next feels a harder task than beating the Mountain in a trial of strength.

Okay, so education is not for everyone. So many finish School and then head out into the world. Grind the 9-5 just to get home and put on Netflix. But what if you could study some of those series?

That might change everything.

Ha, you can just picture the huge uptake in Law when 'Orange is the new black' gets a course!

Great news though, according to sources, Harvard are going to be offering a new Mythology course. The course is titled

'The Real Game of Thrones: From Modern Myths to Medieval Models'.

Don't think you will be laying around on the sofa eating popcorn and watching the show.

The course will be looking at both the books and TV series to explore how the franchise "echoes and adapts, as well as distorts the history and culture of the 'medieval world' of Eurasia from c. 400 to 1500 CE."

Okay, so maybe it sounds a little more boring than you might have thought at first, but still, better than Math, right?

Teaching the course are Sean Gilsdorf and Racha Kirakosian, a medieval historian and Administrative Director and Lecturer on Medieval Studies, and an assistant professor of German and the Study of Religion, respectively.

Some of the plans for the course include examining "a set of archetypal characters at the heart of Game of Thrones - the king, the good wife, the second son, the adventurer, and so on - with distinct analogues in medieval history, literature, religion, and legend."

There's a hope that the course will help boost an interest in Medieval Studies, because, as we alluded to earlier, no one really gives a shit anymore. Besides, season seven's out soon, as this recent trailer reveals: