Why is winter coming? Why does Jon Snow know nothing? And why is Littlefinger called Littlefinger?

为什么凛冬将至？为什么琼恩·雪诺什么都不知道？为什么小指头被叫做小指头？

If you're completely obsessed¹ with all things Game of Thrones then this might just be the course for you, although you may not find the answers to all the questions above.

如果你完全痴迷于《权力的游戏》中的一切事物，那么这个课程可能就是为你量身打造的，尽管你可能没有找到以上所有问题的答案。

The University of British Columbia in Canada has launched a new course for students which will examine George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books and the hit HBO series.

加拿大的英属哥伦比亚大学（University of British Columbia）为学生开设了一门新课，这门课程将研究乔治·R·R·马丁的《冰与火之歌》系列小说和美国 家庭影院频道HBO的热播剧《权力的游戏》。

'Our Modern Medieval: The Song of Ice and Fire as contemporary Medievalism' is one of the modules² English literature students can choose from at the university.

“现代的中世纪：作为当代中世纪主义的《冰与火之歌》”是英国文学专业学生在英属哥伦比亚大学可以选择的学习单元之一。

Students will be encouraged to "examine the role of the medieval in the popular consciousness of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries" as part of the course.

学校鼓励学生研究中世纪在20世纪末和21世纪初的大众意识中发挥的作用，并将其作为大学课程的一部分。

"Throughout the history of western culture, the medieval has been continually reimagined to reflect, as in a mirror darkly, the fears and desires of the contemporary moment," the website explains.

课程介绍页面解释称，“纵观整个西方文化史，中世纪就像在模糊的镜子里，不断被重新构想来反映当代的恐惧与欲望”。

"For the writers of the Renaissance³, the medieval was the abject⁴ other from which the rebirth of classical learning had liberated⁵ them, while the Victorians found in the Middle Ages archetypical structures of Empire and class-orientated chivalry⁶."

对文艺复兴时期（Renaissance）的作家来说，与解放他们的古典学习的重生不同，中世纪是糟糕透顶的年代，维多利亚时代的作家则在中世纪（Middle Ages）发现了典型的帝国结构和等级分明的骑士制度。

Anyone looking to enrol⁷ on the course must have read the five books of the series so far and also be fully up-to-date with the TV series.

想要学习此课程的学生必须通读过《冰与火之歌》系列的全部五本书，同时还必须完全跟上《权力的游戏》电视剧集的最新进度。

Other bizarre courses you can study at university include Baking Technology Management, Viking Studies and Surf Science.

其它可以在大学学习的奇葩课程包括烘焙工艺管理学、北欧海盗研究和冲浪学。

This year, a university in Vancouver also began offering a course on marijuana management.

今年，温哥华的一所大学还开始开设一门大麻管理学课程。