Posted on 08/29/2006 10:40:31 AM PDT by JSedreporter
Not too long ago I wrote an article entitled Women’s MisStudies about a debate between Professor Mike Adams of University of North Carolina-Wilmington and Dean Gay L. Gullickson of University of Maryland College Park. The debate was over Women’s Studies programs and Women’s Resource Centers.
Included in my article was this passage:
“I was able to ask Gullickson how she can say that women’s studies is good for research when, as Carrie Lukas points out in her new book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex and Feminism, these texts have misinformation and missing information that women need to make life decisions.
‘I don’t like textbooks,’ said Gullickson, ‘I don’t use them when I teach and I haven’t read the book you are referring to so I really couldn’t say’.”
Well, I had no reason to doubt Gullickson’s statement until earlier this week when a reader of The Campus Report contacted us with some very interesting information.
UMD has an online bookstore and with a course number and professor name it is possible to see exactly what texts are required for your courses, so that you can place an order and pick them up.
Well, it seems that the course, HIST 212 (also numbered WMST 212), will be taught by Gullickson this semester. In fact, she will teach four sections of the course: Women in Western Europe from 1750 to the present.
But if her students were hoping not to have to pay for textbooks, as per her earlier remark to me, they are out of luck.
Gullickson’s students will have to purchase five books each: Family and Kinship in East London, Four Major Plays Volume 1, Life As We Have Known It, and Women In the Holocaust Volume 2.
The grand total of $71.10 (for all new books) will be less than my astronomy text cost me four years ago, but the point is Gullickson either lied to me to evade my question about the worth of women’s studies books. Or she is bilking her students by requiring five books she intends not to use. I’m afraid it is more likely the former.
Julia A. Seymour is a staff writer at Accuracy in Academia.
Alot of times, teachers tell students the first day of class whether or not they will need to book assigned. More than likely that is a class that is administered by a Department and the 'typical' class will use those text books. So on the first day of class will be the real kicker.
She's teaching, but doesn't like textbooks? WTF, mate?
The stuff they intend to teach in a college sophomore history class today is most amusing. Students shouldn't hold their breath for the "murderous impact of communism on free societies" lecture...
Can't they make up their minds whether it's history or women's studies? I guess the point is it appears to be neither. The feminists in academia would prefer that all history was women's studies I guess. Progress in women's rights goes forward in time, not backwards, no matter how much they'd like to force it. Glad I don't hire historians for a living these days...
I had a friend in a Women's Studies class a few years ago. She told me she was the only person in the class who:
1. is a Christian.
2. shaves.
In a similar vein, Nickeled and Dimmed to Death and Fast Food Nation are required for an Education course.
Nope, no Left wing bias here.
Absolutely correct.
LOL! I hate to break it to you, but "college text books" have been a "racket" for at least 40 years now.
Just got off the phone with my daughter who is furious with a prof that has assigned 80 pages of reading from an "edition" of a text that's been out-of-print for some time and is unavailable. So the college bookstore "substituted" for the latest "edition" and the students suffer while the prof whines about having to "rewrite" her syllabus. Of course, *if* the prof had bothered to check on availability there wouldn't be a problem. Hence the beginning of my tagline. :(
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