eddycayshun–2014 style:

Posted on January 21, 2014 by KG

‘Until 2011, students majoring in English at UCLA had to take one course in Chaucer, two in Shakespeare, and one in Milton — the cornerstones of English literature. Following a revolt of the junior faculty, however, during which it was announced that Shakespeare was part of the “Empire,” UCLA junked these individual author requirements. It replaced them with a mandate that all English majors take a total of three courses in the following four areas: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Disability and Sexuality Studies; Imperial, Transnational, and Postcolonial Studies; genre studies, interdisciplinary studies, and critical theory; or creative writing. In other words, the UCLA faculty was now officially indifferent to whether an English major had ever read a word of Chaucer, Milton or Shakespeare, but the department was determined to expose students, according to the course catalogue, to “alternative rubrics of gender, sexuality, race, and class.”..’
David Thompson

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4 Responses to eddycayshun–2014 style:

  1. KG says:
    January 21, 2014 at 12:15

    Some wonderful comments under that post. My favourite:
    “You have to wonder what the student quoted above would make of Joseph Boulogne, the “black Mozart” of 18th century Paris, who was of African descent and pretty nifty at European classical composition. And a virtuoso violinist. And not at all bad at sword fighting and horse riding too.”
    I can’t speak for the student but I hate the flashy bastard already.
    Posted by: Minnow | January 07, 2014 at 12:36

  2. Mathew says:
    January 21, 2014 at 16:40

    The day will come when you have to study Spanish or arabic in an English course.

    The likes of stalin, lenin, bin laden etc are sitting around in hell right now thinking, what the F*** did we waste our time going on about jihad and the peasants, all we had to do was sit and wait for the dumb F***s to figuratively jump off a cliff.

  3. KG says:
    January 21, 2014 at 17:01

    And they’d be right, Mathew.

  4. Wombat says:
    January 21, 2014 at 17:39

    Fantastic. When everyone with a brain throws up their hands and says “I’m going to go pick fruit for a living” then the progressives can drive us to the collapse even faster.

    Bring it on. :razz: