Posted on 05/22/2015 6:54:48 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
Sacramento State University will now allow an anthropology course to fulfill the school’s general education history requirement, a decision that has prompted fierce debate, with history scholars noting it effectively allows students to take a “history” class that doesn’t even mention either World War, among other important topics.
As it stands, the anthropology class will reportedly focus on “the intersection of race, class, gender, ethnicity and sexuality; the political economy of institutions and ideas, such as racism, classism, sexual stereotyping, family, religion, state, color blindness, multiculturalism, etc.; and, discourses of cultural diversity in the U.S.”
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On the one hand I can see that this course is missing something important.
But, on the other hand, this isn't a history course and any college student should already know about WWI and WWII. But that's a crap shoot based on the condition of high schools across this once great nation.
Communist re-education. Time for a separation.
Well, good triumphed over evil. Can’t have none of that.
“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.”
University Approves ‘history’ Class That Doesn’t Mention EITHER World Wars.
so much for a college education
Sacramento State Kindergarten.
No more researching the Samoans in Anthropology 101!
It’s a silly course, but lots of history courses don’t mention WWII or WWI. There was a lot of history before the 20th century. I took a course on the American revolution. It didn’t mention anything after 1812.
Sounds like a dumb course. It doesn’t even cover white privilege.
Course was developed in Germany and tested in Japan.
Well, one cannot talk about WWI and WWII without having to mention the greatness to which the United States rose, can one? Particularly in the aftermath of WWII where the United States emerged as the superpower to become engaged in further decades of struggle with Russia and later China.
To recount any part of this would be liberal heresy that speaks blasphemy against the mindless and futile revolution that is “the WORLD” being made up of equally resourced countries ‘working together’ in harmony (sing “I’d like to bring the world a Coke and blah, blah blah...).
To even mention how America is exceptional is thought crime.
My niece is taking AP-US History in high school. I asked her what they were studying and she said they started out studying Native Americans and now (we spoke about this in February) they were studying the 30’s and FDR. My sister is a Socialist so I suspect she thinks this is an appropriate way to approach US History. But all I was thinking was ‘there’s a whole lot of US History between the Native Americans and the 1930’s’.
Back in the 1960s, my computer programing course counted as a general science requirement, bit this goes way beyond that ‘stretched’ connection.
Today, a liberal education means exactly that — indoctrination in the liberal mind-set.
Sounds to me like some historians are concerned about job security. This is an anthro class that fulfills a history requirement - it’s not meant to be all-inclusive. There are plenty of examples of things like this. E.g., there are a huge range of classes that would qualify as a quantitative reasoning (math) class that really have nothing to do directly with math. Examples I have taken include certain systematics or population dynamics classes, chemical technology, and meteorology. Writing is the same way - you don’t need an English or writing class to get a writing credit - just a class that requires a lot of work where the writing is evaluated for quality.
When in high school, we regularly asked what they were studying...especially with regard to US history. There we gaps but things weren't as bad then as they are now.
We made sure they learned the truly important US history at home. The Federalist Papers, the Framers, Lincoln, WWI & WWII, etc. Their grandfather was especially instrumental with his passionate stories of his time in the service.
They have expressed numerous thanks in the last few years that we did this because they are easily able to see how lacking their friends are in this area.
It is said that charity begins at home. So does education.
In the movie “Animal House”, a character pumps up his fellow fraternity members with “Over? Did you say “over”? ... Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?” Today’s educated youth would not get the humor.
You go to the classes and they are basically about teaching people to focus on hateful resentful things by going over every possible left-wing classification and claiming historic discrimination for which they eledge we are still guilty and/or on the hook for. As if the sins of thy father were the son’s and in any case they do nothing to improve today. other than to create new fights over resources.
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