We're talking about a college offering called "The Problem of Blackness". You're unable to follow the discussion.
"Downplaying" what issues for white people? And, when you refer to "you people", who are you referring to?
Every issue. "As usual, nothing to see here"? And I mean you leftists ignore issues for white people. That comment wasn't made to you, so I don't know what exactly you're complaining about. On the other hand, my actual response to you had a lot of other points which you've conveniently ignored. But I do think my points are clear enough. Anything is hard to understand for stupid people.
trump u is way worse. any idiot who spend money on that is a fool and you know what they say about a fool and his money
No, we're talking about making up a hypothetical situation that protects you from admitting you were wrong.
That's been the topic of the thread form the onset you stupid idiot. Why don't you just answer the question?
Just like you right-wing folk continue to ignore issues for non-white people, which is why the GOP continues to lose the vote to every other demographic.
The only question here is how much of a bigot are you? It's been a long time since I've had a discussion with someone with as much hate for minorities as you do.
As to people citing the awkward and potentially offensive title as "click bait," they are totally correct. In the modern, ever-more-corporate university, the administrations will cancel new courses that don't get good enrollment. The modern commodity is just butts in seats, thereby delivering an efficiency to the institution. So professors, myself included, always have to think about catchy course titles, especially for people / consumers of ages 18-22, who won't read the online course description in any depth or look at a syllabus to decide what courses they will take. In physics, we're more immune from this b/c we're not commonly generating new courses for the general non-physics majors, but when we do, there is agony in coming up with course titles. So I'm confident this Wisconsin prof was thinking "well, it's kind of an in-your-face title, but I'll get at least 30 students and it won't get cancelled." Or that was at least part of his thinking. I'm not "defending" him, sorry. I'm just trying to explain part of why course titles actually are becoming literal click bait. Higher ed is so screwed in general. Maybe when y'all round us up and burn our books, I'll actually just shrug and walk away.
Glad I stuck with engineering. Not much click baity course titles for DiffyQs and Statics. When ever we say that higher education is 'screwed' because of subjective areas of studies like the liberal arts we need to remember there is the STEM community that isn't ass susuptsble to the whole SJW/controversial proffesor trope.
I teach high school so she seems horrificly bad from what i've read. She seems like a carbon copy or Arne Duncan who was also horrificly bad. Seems like the rule is to be sec of ed you have to have zero experience in ed.
Rationalizing click-bait course titles to gain student enrollment is quite silly to me. It's an ends-justify-the-means thinking. If the course was truly worth taking, students would be signing up for a wait list. At best, this course should be offered in a mini-mester, but I think it belongs more in a small seminar club that meets one hour per week in a library conference room. I don't see how you could fill a semester's worth of time and interest while still offering some value to the students. Honestly, anybody that pays to take this type of course is a schmuck.
Me too! You should complain to the ****ing Ed. D. asshats who are becoming provosts and deans and ruining higher ed. They're the ones canceling the courses. Hahahahahhaha! (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)
I still know very little about the course. The course title and thread title don't really explain much about it. It actually explains more about the thread starter.
It's a waste of time to take a course like this. Should be a free for all to attend a group debate and discussion. There's so much social history of colonialism to the effects of the lives of the world population of today. Would be a long discussion and debate. Heck, you know what, you need a course for this. I think talking about it will enlighten those and educate the ignorant as well as make the world a better place.
I think there is an issue with higher education, but part of the problem is that people think that the subject matter is all that is valuable in a lot of the liberal arts classes. While I ended up with a STEM degree, I took a lot of liberal arts classes in school. Yes some of them were not useful for sure. But what I did learn was how to take a scientific way of thinking and apply critical thinking skills to other arenas that are far more mushy than STEM. And without that I would not have been able to transition my career into marketing. I think today people devalue a liberal arts education because they don't see the application as clearly as it was a few decades ago.
I think a lot of people devalue it because they see college as merely a vessel to get employment rather than one to get a well rounded education. The poorly educated guy with few job skills doesn't care about Descartes. However, Youtube and twitter are no substitutes for a liberal arts education no matter what common sense mumbo jumbo someone throws out about liberal arts.
