Posted on 02/04/2015 3:43:09 PM PST by Altura Ct.
Dartmouth College is now offering a #BlackLivesMatter course for its students in the upcoming spring semester.
Developed by the Ivy school’s geography and African and African-American studies program, “10 Weeks, 10 Professors: #BlackLivesMatter” is supposedly “dedicated to considering race, structural inequality and violence in both a historical and modern context.” Students will be able to enroll in the course for the Spring 2015 semester.
According to The Dartmouth, the college’s student newspaper, the class will be taught by 15 professors from 10 different academic departments. The professors’ expertise range from anthropology to mathematics.
“We just thought that it might be interesting and innovative and exciting to have a course that’s dedicated to this, whereas lots of other people are incorporating it into other courses,” Dr. Abigail Neely, an assistant professor of geography, told The Dartmouth.
Neely told the student newspaper that the professors teaching the course hope to teach students that the highly publicized incident in Ferguson, Mo., and the non-indictment of Darren Wilson, the police officer who fatally shot a black 18-year-old during an altercation, is a worldwide issue.
Chelsey Kivland, an anthropology professor, said she already teaches her students about police brutality in one of her classes. Kivland, who will be helping to teach the course, said that it will "use Ferguson as a starting point for broadening the conversation about the national problems of inequality, race, and violence."
“Courses like these are extremely important, and they get us all out of our comfort zones, whether you’re taking the course or not, because people will be talking about it,” Kevin Gillespie, president of Dartmouth’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told The Dartmouth.
The NAACP held a “Black Lives Matter” protest and die-in at one of the school’s libraries in January.
#Albino lives matter.....
Will the be offering a complementary “White lives don’t” course?
Instead of holding the course in Hanover, New Hampshire (85.27% White, 2.25% Black or African American, 0.61% Native American, 8.18% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 1.13% from other races, and 2.46% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.17% of the population) might it not be more appropriate to hold the course in the Chicago ghetto? Black lives matter so much in Hanover that they are probably appointed tenured professors at the drop of a hat.
...snigger...
the geography department???
what does geography...have to do with “black people” and violence??
my oh my!
Yep. It's one sign the tenure committee wasn't careful enough.
I guess ‘All Lives Matter’ would be offensive? Oh wait, the abortion crowd would be offended yes? As well as the minority victim class............never mind.
That’s racist
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Any parent who pays the fortune that Dartmouth charges as tuition each year is a fool.
Thank God that no one in the Biology Department showed an interest in promoting this inane curriculum or there could be hell to pay!
I DARE Dartmouth to have Thomas Sowell as a visiting professor for the course!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ImP-gJvas
Thomas Sowell discusses his newest book, Intellectuals and Race
Burn in Hell, racist Dartmouth leftards.
Taught by Hon Professor S. Knight.
Huh? Is this a controversial issue that might generate educational discourse?
I mean, will there be speakers presenting the opposite viewpoint, so a debate can be held? Or will the final exam look like this:
1. Do black lives matter?
a) Yes.
b) No.
c) Maybe.
d) None of the above.
In China, India , Korea, Japan the study physics and other real world subjects.....not this horse puckey
Suge might not be available for 20-30 years...
Perhaps this type of course is the reason we are lagging the WORLD in education......at least that’s what the Dem Media tells me.
When H311 freezes over.......
There is a mass psychosis in this country.
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