by Jim Brown
The Virginia-based Young America's Foundation has released its 8th annual survey of the most bizarre and politically biased courses on university campuses.
The study is entitled Comedy & Tragedy: College Course Descriptions and What They Tell Us About Higher Education Today. Young America's Rick Parsons says the “Dirty Dozen List” highlights a study examining a broad range of institutions that promote liberal ideology — compliments of American taxpayers.
“We look at big Ivy League schools, we look at big state universities, small liberal arts colleges, Catholic schools, and the University of California school system,” Parsons says. “We take a wide range of schools and compare the courses — and, not surprisingly really, many of the courses look the same through all different types of schools.”
Two of the courses on the list include a University of Minnesota class called “Language and Sexual Diversity,” and a course at Vassar College entitled “Black Marxism.”
But Parsons says perhaps the most outrageous course offering can be found at UCLA, where students study the “Cultural History of Rap.” The course offers students a discussion “on musical and verbal qualities, philosophical and political ideologies, gender representation, and influences on cinema and popular culture” in rap.
“It doesn't make much sense to have a whole course on the history of rap when, especially, state schools today are supposedly hurting for funds from taxpayers — and parents and students are paying a lot of money for these courses,” he says. “These types of courses take away resources from traditional, liberal-arts studies that students are expected to experience when they go to college.”
Other courses found in Young America's Dirty Dozen list include “Philosophy and Star Trek” at Georgetown University, as well as Brown University's “Seeing Queerly: Queer Theory, Film, and Video.”
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)
