Posted on 09/29/2024 12:16:45 PM PDT by george76
Goodbye to ‘Marx at the Mall,’ ‘Global Transgender Histories,’ Dua Lipa
Harvard has canceled over 30 fall semester courses encompassing 20 departments, but the History and Literature department took it on the chin the hardest.
According to The Crimson, Hist-Lit Director of Studies Lauren Kaminsky said class offerings dropped from 19 to 13 classes after five lecturers either departed or chose to do something else.
The canceled Hist-Lit courses include “British Soft Power from Shakespeare to Dua Lipa,” “Marx at the Mall: Consumer Culture & Its Critics,” “Global Transgender Histories,” “Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America,” “The Making of Race across Latin America,” and “Global Histories of Capitalism.”
The course description for “Global Transgender Histories” noted students “will become familiar with some of the global vocabulary of gender identities beyond the binary and will understand the historical impacts of phenomena such as racism, imperialism, and [the] medicalization on gender identities.”
Students also would’ve “discovered” the diversity of “gender-variant people” via “religious texts, poetry, art, legal cases, travelogues, newspapers, films […] and oral histories.”
In “Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America,” students would have gained knowledge about the “foundations of settler colonialism” and the “resistance to it” via “poetry, memoir, speculative fiction [and] media.”
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They also would “interrogate” various works in order to grasp “the anxieties, joys, and power that arise when Indigenous people embrace their bodies.”
Two Crimson editors expressed misgivings about the cancellations; Zion Dixon said he was “kind of disappointed” about not being able to attend “Global Transgender Histories,” while Angelina Ng was “very sad” about the axing of “British Soft Power from Shakespeare to Dua Lipa” — the short notice caused a “scramble,” she said.
The Harvard Salient reports there is still a smorgasbord of far-left course material to choose from at the premier Ivy (some of which, at present, may or may not still be available). “Feminism in the Age of Empire,” for example, “critically engages the possibilities and limits of liberation through the global history of feminist ideas of freedom.”
In “Indigenous Literatures of the Other-Than-Human,” students will read 20th and 21st-century Native depictions of “other-than-human beings” and (Natives’) relationships with such — which are “integral to Indigenous ways of understanding difference.”
And “Queering Education” looks into the alleged “hidden curriculum” in American schools which privileges heteronormativity, cisnormativity, and “gendered identities.”
How did i make a living as a self-employed musician for half a century without this essential knowledge?/s
Is it possible that big donors finally said, “Stop the madness?”
You should write a song about “Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America”. It’s a catchy title.
Most of the course names sound Babylon-Bee-Made-Up-ish.
I wonder how they’d like Introduction to Differential Equations?
Have to keep the Fighting Toxic Masculinity and Fundamental Transformation of Racist America ones.
These are real, not joke, courses:
Tree Climbing: Cornell University. Students who never learned to climb a tree as a child can now receive college-level education on the subject.
Joy of Garbage. Taught at Santa Clara University, this course actually goes into depth about decomposition and odors. Includes effects on the climate from trash disposal.
UFOs In American Society: Temple University.
How To Win A Beauty Pageant. “This course examines US beauty pageants from the 1920s to the present. Our aim will be to analyze pageantry.... At Oberlin College.
Philosophy and Star Trek: Georgetown University. Students who take this class will not only get to watch Star Trek, but delve into the issues....
Ikebana: zen flower arrangement.
Geography of Wine. Arizona State University.
Paintball Kinesiology. Texas A & M. Offered only to students at the “novice” level.
And finally, one that Joe Biden should have taken.
Ice Cream Short Course.
Pennsylvania State University
Course description: Professionals looking to be immersed in the world of ice cream manufacturing can take this weeklong short course, which Penn State has offered for 128 years. Entrepreneurs and curious students learn about ice cream from cow to cone.
““Marx at the Mall: Consumer Culture & Its Critics,” “Global Transgender Histories,” “Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America,” “The Making of Race across Latin America,” and “Global Histories of Capitalism.””
I remember decades ago laughingly talking about how Vanderbilt University should just offer “A Marxist-Feminist Perspective on Feminism and Marxism” in their course guide. It’s only gotten worse.
Could it be more and more young skulls full of mush are having epiphanies? That all they’d get from those Masters in Ubangi transgender studies, Aztec lesbian drum beating, systemic racism in navel gazing and other such irrelevacies is tons of student loan debt. And they wouldn’t qualify them to work as barristas at a Starschmucks
Is Hahvahd trying to regain a bit of credibility?
Well, there go my dreams of a career in Global Transgender Histories. My dissertation on the semiotics of John Holmes movies will remain unpublished and the world will be a poorer place for it. (sobbing)
In my small company none of these courses would have any relevance to our needs. I need employees who have basic technical knowledge, such as how to tighten a screw, and how to use their hands to assemble something.
My biggest problem is having them come back to work after a few weeks. They seem to think $20/hrs is not worthy of their talent.
GOOD!
Hey, where are you located? I’d love $20/hour!
Indigenous Genders and Sexualities
In North America, in Generalities
Consists of XX and XY Respectively,
Exactly like the rest of humanity.
And so, it’s like the rest of the Planet
Just like way The Great Spirit Planned it.
An occaisional Brave may think he’s Non-Binary
And eschews the Warrior’s Traditional Finery
An occaisional Maiden wil prefer to go hunting
Instead of wrapping a papoose in bunting.
But generally, it’s like the rest of the Planet
Just like the way the Great Spirit Planned it.
A Two-Spirit person is considered an anomoly
A trait that might show in his physiognomy
But wisdom would show that you can’t follow your dream
If it means changing canoes when your speeding downstream.
In short, wisdom would dictate that the tribe should ban it
And just live the way The Grear Spirit Planned it!
(That needs a little tweaking, but it’s a good start)
lol. Very funny.
I’m guessing ChatGPT?
Yeah, I’m guessing that a “power driver” means something else in these courses.
Fight Fiercely, Harvard!
I thought you were doing your dissertation on the urban lesbian perspective of modern poetry. Dang, I was looking forward to it.
Berkeley, way back when, first year, first semester: History 17a American History; History 4a Western Civ; English 10; Geomorphology; Language 100; 17 units.
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