As I keep pointing out, the academic left is not listening to public opinion. They’re doubling down.
The College Fix reports:
Brown University offers more than 100 courses under ‘Race, Power and Privilege’ designationBrown University is offering more than 100 courses under a new “Race, Power and Privilege” curricular designation in the spring 2023 semester.Courses designated under RPP for the spring span nearly 40 subjects and include “Musical Youth Cultures,” “Social Determinants of Health,” “Labor Economics,” and “The Craft of Teaching,” according to the Brown course search page.“Race, Power and Privilege” courses “in their content and objectives…examine issues of structural inequality, racial formations and/or disparities and systems of power,” according to the RPP website.“ENG 0300 Medieval Gender,” one of the Spring 2023 courses labeled with RPP, seeks to “examine the multiplicity of ways that gender and sexuality are portrayed in the literature of medieval Britain and interlinked cultural regions,” according to its description. It explores how “medieval texts depict gender categories, relations of desire and violence, intersectional subject positions, and anxieties about sex that remain alive today.”The College Fix reached out to the media relations department at Brown on Feb. 15 with questions regarding the changes made in RRP classes and whether the classes will be required for all students. Its representatives did not respond.The RPP designation was approved last March and first instituted for courses in the summer 2022 term, according to a news release.‘Race, Power and Privilege’ is the latest of several designations to expand opportunities for students to study ‘social markers of difference’The “Race, Power and Privilege” designation replaced the 2016 classification “Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan Courses: Race, Gender, and Inequality,” which itself replaced the designation “American Minority Perspectives,” created in 1985, according to the news release.However, a “College Curriculum Council Working Group on Diversity in the Undergraduate Curriculum” determined in 2021 that a “narrower and more explicit” program was needed, so the name was changed for a third time.
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