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Anonymous wrote:So my kid got into UC Davis for American Studies. I saw that the transfer admit rate to Berkeley in American Studies was 50% and extrapolated that DC’s odds would be good as a freshman in that major. (They don’t publish admit rates by major for Freshmen). DC’s stats weren’t good enough for Cal but were good enough for Davis. DC was admitted to that school for American Studies. I went over to the department page, and my God, DC is switching his major to history. Here are some of the faculty areas of study in American History: “maps racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural US, from the 1910s to the 1990s,” “ Recuperating radical left articulations of legal lynching as a form of class warfare, the book theorizes lynching photographs as moving images that illuminate the constitutive relationship of racial terror to global capitalism,” “ research has focused primarily on the radical imaginations and deferred dreams of social movements that become entangled with the politics of institutionalization and funding.” I’m not paying for DC to get indoctrinated by these whack jobs.

Are you scared your kid will learn something you don’t want them to know?

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Anonymous wrote:I see you're not a big fan of tolerance or freedom of expression.

Or they have standards..

Anonymous wrote:Seems like Columbia has succumbed

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/02/columbias-crumbling-core

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure OP understands what Postmodernism actually is. This feels like it comes from a very limited perspective or is deliberately political. There is a version of this question that could be legit, but not the way OP posed it.

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Anonymous wrote:The late great Harold Bloom warned how literary studies was taken over by cultural studies, i.e. not reading the great works at all or "reading" Shakespeare and Dickens through faddish ideological lenses (feminist, Marxist, por-modernist). Traditional literary scholars are in the minority.

At what colleges these days can one get a serious education in literature these days?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_College_(Annapolis/Santa_Fe)

This is what you're looking for. Lots of dead white men.

Anonymous wrote:So my kid got into UC Davis for American Studies. I saw that the transfer admit rate to Berkeley in American Studies was 50% and extrapolated that DC’s odds would be good as a freshman in that major. (They don’t publish admit rates by major for Freshmen). DC’s stats weren’t good enough for Cal but were good enough for Davis. DC was admitted to that school for American Studies. I went over to the department page, and my God, DC is switching his major to history. Here are some of the faculty areas of study in American History: “maps racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural US, from the 1910s to the 1990s,” “ Recuperating radical left articulations of legal lynching as a form of class warfare, the book theorizes lynching photographs as moving images that illuminate the constitutive relationship of racial terror to global capitalism,” “ research has focused primarily on the radical imaginations and deferred dreams of social movements that become entangled with the politics of institutionalization and funding.” I’m not paying for DC to get indoctrinated by these whack jobs.

Anonymous wrote:Agree with OP.

One LAC offers a course titled Queer Feminist Environmental Studies (Hamilton College).

Anonymous wrote:Agree with OP.

One LAC offers a course titled Queer Feminist Environmental Studies (Hamilton College).

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Anonymous wrote:I see you're not a big fan of tolerance or freedom of expression.

DP. Quite the opposite. It’s today’s triggered youth who are intolerant. Any view that doesn’t perfectly alight with their microscopic lived experience makes them melt like butter in the hot sun. A pandemic adolescence spent online in isolation churned out a heck of a lot of whackos.

Seems to me that Harold Bloom was the one who was triggered by the idea that there might be literature or perspectives out there different from his lived experience as a horny old white guy.