I just found a new site (via Instapundit) called Minding the Campus that concerns how the Race, Class, Gender (RCG aka Angry Studies) people are undermining liberal education.
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"Angry Studies" is a good term for these courses, you can judge them by how quickly in the course description or book list you can determine the 'why straight white males suck' quotient for each course.
Some courses it's very high, and out in the open, some more subtle, and on rare cases, instead of creating an oppositional framework for discussing sociology or literature they choose to look at the folks the course is designed to look at without rancor towards the 'privileged' group.
That the 'liberal arts' portion of many state universities are dominated by these disciplines (at least here in California) is a huge waste of taxpayer money. Students lured into these "Studies" as their major are saddled with student loans to repay after learning little but how to be angry about not being a white straight male.
Last I checked, most jobs don't list that as a requirement, and the ones that do, don't pay well.
"Angry Studies" is a good term for these courses, you can judge them by how quickly in the course description or book list you can determine the 'why straight white males suck' quotient for each course.
Some courses it's very high, and out in the open, some more subtle, and on rare cases, instead of creating an oppositional framework for discussing sociology or literature they choose to look at the folks the course is designed to look at without rancor towards the 'privileged' group.
That the 'liberal arts' portion of many state universities are dominated by these disciplines (at least here in California) is a huge waste of taxpayer money. Students lured into these "Studies" as their major are saddled with student loans to repay after learning little but how to be angry about not being a white straight male.
Last I checked, most jobs don't list that as a requirement, and the ones that do, don't pay well.