Angry Yale students petition to 'decolonize' the school's English department

Daily Mail ^ | 15 June 2016 | Anneta Konstantinides For Dailymail.com

[CorporateStepsister]

Yale University has found itself embroiled in controversy once again this year after English students complained that courses in the department were 'hostile' to students of color.

Under the most fire is the Major English Poets course, a prerequisite for undergraduates in the major to study the works of at least seven major poets, all of whom are white men.

An anonymous petition has demanded the department not only change the English 125/126 course, which has existed since 1920, but abolish it entirely. It also asks that the major's pre-1800/1900 requirements be changed to include literature relating to 'gender, race and sexuality'.

'A year spent around a seminar table where the literary contributions of women, people of color and queer folk are absent actively harms all students, regardless of their identity,' it reads.

[Laser_Ray]

The deans should offer an ‘alternative’ class of “Inclusive Language”...and have them study nothing but animal noises with the odd analysis of a cartoon short featuring cannibals dancing around someone boiling someone in a pot.

[leaning conservative]

Oh you charm school dropout, you........