Posted on 01/12/2024 6:48:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
A top university in the United States is now offering a class called “Afrochemistry,” with the intention of explaining alleged “inequities in chemistry and chemical education.”
As the Daily Caller reports, the class will be taught at Rice University from January 8th to April 19th, 2024. The class has no final exam.
“Students will apply chemical tools and analysis to understand Black life in the U.S. and students will implement African American sensibilities to analyze chemistry,” the course description states. “Diverse historical and contemporary scientists, intellectuals, and chemical discoveries will inform personal reflections and proposals for addressing inequities in chemistry and chemical education.”
“This course will be accessible to students from a variety of backgrounds including STEM and non-STEM disciplines,” the description continues. “No prior knowledge of chemistry or African American studies is required for engagement in this course.”
The announcement of the course led to backlash and mockery from academics and others, lamenting the latest example of politics and racial identity infiltrating a subject that has nothing to do with either. A Wall Street Journal op-ed said that such classes “are beginning to appear almost everywhere and are getting support and encouragement from the scientific establishment.”
Jerry Coyne, a biologist and professor emeritus at Chicago University, said that the course might as well have been advertised as “The Study of Black Lives Matter,” and denounced the class as an example of how the field of science has become poisoned by racial identity politics and “progressive activism.”
A private university founded in 1912, Rice University was ranked 17th on the list of best “national universities” in the country by U.S. News’ 2024 rankings.
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I will forever be suspect of a younger black person with “Dr.” in front of their name. Thanks liberals, goal accomplished.
Any bets on the person teaching this class will have any knowledge of chemistry?
My first thought exactly. Thanks for posting it.
What an effing joke.
Highly doubtful that anyone taking the course is actually using their own money to pay the 65,000/yr tuition that Rice charges. However try to imagine some parentsworking a second job and sacrificing to send their kid to this “prestigous” institution to become educated. “so what did you learn in school this week?”
Is this a course for athletes that aren’t on a degree pathway? It is hard to imagine this is being offered to students in any meaningful program.
Purple Drank 101
this is good - if you are looking for a chemist, ask to see their college transcript - if this class is on it - DO NOT HIRE THEM.
America has become NO COUNTRY FOR EDUCATED WHITE MEN.
Bulldoze these propaganda camps to the ground.
Kick out these racists who hate “whitey” who pretend they are “scholars.”
As I have posted many times, do not let your children attend American universities. Do not hand your savings over to these hateful and evil communists to use to brainwash your children.
My next door neighbor is graduating high school in May. Rice is one of his top picks.
It appears wherever he goes he’s going to run into such nonsense.
He didn’t want to go to our state university because they spent engineering day telling the kids about 2SLGBTQIA+ rights.
I used to think schools like Rice, Notre Dame, etc would be at least a little safe from such nonsense but I guess not.
Who's ready for MLKingium or Harveymilkium? How about Afronium to replace Americium?
I guess black Ca and white Ca have subtle...or not so subtle...chemical differences.
First semester- “How to Cook Crack-101”.
No employer is going to count this course as a "hard science". It's a "black studies" fluff course.
Back in the day the feminists thought they could take over the study of physics with “the women’s way of knowing.” Didn’t work out.
Apparently nothing is safe.
These universities need to be closed and used as homeless shelters.
They have given up on education.
Dr. Brooke Johnson joined the DEI team as a Preceptor after obtaining her Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton University (‘23). Rice alum (‘17) and former Rice track athlete, Dr. Johnson is passionate about the intersection of science and social justice and using her unique experiences to teach, support and inspire diverse students.In other words, she got a PhD in agitation.
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