Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
Posted on 10/20/2008 10:12:07 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Lessons in diversity
Melanie Pang has participated in educational events and political theater as a leader in a University of Houston campus group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students.
Next spring, she'll move that interest into the academic arena.
Pang plans to be among the first students enrolled when the university begins offering a minor concentration in GLBT studies, the only college in Texas to do so.
"We thought it was necessary to recognize the scholarly importance of GLBT people and their contributions," said Guillermo De Los Reyes, assistant professor of Latin American studies and director of the new program.
The program won't be a support group for students who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, but an academic exploration of that community, he said.
"There are other spaces where students can go ... to organize a rally," he said. "For us, it would be to study the impact."
Many schools offer courses in the subject. Four public Texas universities offer bachelor's degrees in gender studies or women's studies, a discipline that gave rise to the more specialized field.
Interdisciplinary study
Kevin Lemoine, director of academic programs for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, said the small number of programs likely reflects student demand and work force needs. "There's no direct work-force correlate for someone who has a bachelor's in gender studies," he said.
Maybe not, although De Los Reyes said a better understanding of the complexity of human nature is useful in many fields.
"The business world and the professional world ... (are) composed not only of heterosexual people," he said. "This is something that will give the student the tools to make decisions in the professional world."
But Pang, 22, wasn't looking for career advancement when she lobbied her UH professors about offering the minor.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Excellent ... another dead end career path for college professors and coffee pourers.
Just another reason to go to Texas A&M,the most conservative public university in the nation!!
That degree will be a real plus in a competitive job market, too!
Another expansion of the Sociology department, excuse me the Socialist department. Another waste of faculty positions when students are having a hard enough time getting out in four years because of not enough faculty in required courses.
What the devil is GLBT besides another theft program of the tax payers?
Yup because the A&M means they will actually learn something that will help humanity. These gender & ethnic “studies” programs area joke. Pay tuition for something totally worthless.
Everybody - Volunteer & Donate.
Make sure we are all at local McCain HQ helping out with GOTV the weekend before the election. If you are retired - volunteer now. Ignore the polls.
Ignore the MSM - in the next few weeks they will go into overdrive fawning over Obama. Be prepared.
A gay Texan? Wouldn’t such a person be required to kick his own a$$?
If the program follows most modern education “success” stories then these people will end up more messed up than before.
Houston PING
Tax dollars at work.
Yeah, I’ve browsed collegiate bookstores — I was surprised this is the first...I suspect it is the first to actually admit to it....other schools have other names for it.
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
This is an embarassment. I am ashamed to say I graduated from UH in 1994. I haven’t given to the alumni org in years. Every time I call I tell them exactly why - the liberal crap they’ve been spewing and the indoctrination of the young minds. I look forward to their next call.
I was born in West Texas oil country.
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
“students will be offered classes such as Queer Theory and get credit for watching Ellen and Will & Grace. “
Another psycho-babble degree designed to make it look like we have students graduating from college... but from what? What would you do with a degree in GLBT Studies? The public schools are dumbing down our students, so less of them are able to get math/science related degrees. New useless degrees are created to keep the coffers of the college pockets full of money and at the same time make it look like we are a nation that still turns out college educated students.
If it was gonna happen in Texas, it figures it would happen at Cougar High School.
Television? You're obviously the product of a public education.
Which state?
Dude, that’s an actual quote from Joe Biden, obviously the product of a publik educashon.
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