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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like a fun class!

Wait until you see the new offerings at UVA and Vandy once they sign Trump's government control over universities letter. Likely classes will include: "Women as a Vessel for Birth" and "Genius of Adolph Hitler" and "Muslim conspiracies" and "Downfall of Feminism" among other catchy classes.[/quote]

1. I don’t have any moral objection to the class, but I’d argue that “RuPaulitics” lacks academic merit. I wouldn’t want to pay $90k for my kid to take it. (FTR, I’d similarly object to “MMA and American Masculinity”). It’s fundamentally frivolous.

2. It’s politically provocative and unwise for Harvard at this time. Billions of $$$ on the line.[/quote]

DP: You aren't paying $90K for your kid to take it. It's only one class, so it doesn't cost $90K to take it, and it isn't required of anyone. So don't take it. Also, the title of a class never fully captures its content, they are designed like click bait for undergrads.

The topic here is academics at the highest level. Who are you to say what should or should not be studied by any given individual?

It sounds like an interesting elective for anyone studying modern politics, modern society, gender issues, etc., etc., etc. even people who may find those issues morally objectionable, maybe especially those as they will learn a lot and have a lot to contribute to class discussions (respectfully). In debate, you always need to study the "other side's" argument and know it better than they do. The same goes triple for academics. Would you expect an undergrad history major to be worth anything if they only studied one period of time in one country? Or a government policy major who only studied one system of government from one policy point of view? Or a literature major who only studied epic poems from Greenland? Or a CS major who only studied computer languages of the 19th century?

It is clearly a topic of our time -- note your own reaction to the topic-- and so is extremely worthy of study by the best and brightest minds of our time who are interested in the topic and the many social, medical, and political issues surrounding it. This is literally what academic is meant to do. Your math major kid need not take the class.[/quote]

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