Harvard Eliminates Over 30 Fall Courses, Mostly ‘Far-Left History and Literature’
“Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America”
It looks like most of these courses fall into the ‘progressive’ category. What a shame.
The College Fix reports:
Harvard cancels over 30 courses; far-left History & Literature classes hardest hit
Harvard has canceled over 30 fall semester courses encompassing 20 departments, but the History and Literature department took it on the chin the hardest.
According to The Crimson, Hist-Lit Director of Studies Lauren Kaminsky said class offerings dropped from 19 to 13 classes after five lecturers either departed or chose to do something else.
The canceled Hist-Lit courses include “British Soft Power from Shakespeare to Dua Lipa,” “Marx at the Mall: Consumer Culture & Its Critics,” “Global Transgender Histories,” “Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America,” “The Making of Race across Latin America,” and “Global Histories of Capitalism.”
The course description for “Global Transgender Histories” noted students “will become familiar with some of the global vocabulary of gender identities beyond the binary and will understand the historical impacts of phenomena such as racism, imperialism, and [the] medicalization on gender identities.”
Students also would’ve “discovered” the diversity of “gender-variant people” via “religious texts, poetry, art, legal cases, travelogues, newspapers, films […] and oral histories.”
In “Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America,” students would have gained knowledge about the “foundations of settler colonialism” and the “resistance to it” via “poetry, memoir, speculative fiction [and] media.”
They also would “interrogate” various works in order to grasp “the anxieties, joys, and power that arise when Indigenous people embrace their bodies.”
Two Crimson editors expressed misgivings about the cancellations; Zion Dixon said he was “kind of disappointed” about not being able to attend “Global Transgender Histories,” while Angelina Ng was “very sad” about the axing of “British Soft Power from Shakespeare to Dua Lipa” — the short notice caused a “scramble,” she said.
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Useless courses for useless people at a useless institution.
Only 30? How many hundred does that leave?
“Global Histories of Capitalism.”
Dunno. One could offer a fine conservative course with the same title.
At MIT we sort of had one — it was called History of Technology. It converted me from a student who absolutely hated history in high school into an aficionado.
I’ve often been fascinated by the successful resistance Indigenous People had to settler colonialism through the power of poetry.
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” — Mao Tse-tung
How’s that for poetry?
Or there’s:
“Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.” — Hilaire Belloc
30 courses out of hundreds of useless DEI crap entries in the curriculum that not only need eliminated, but the useless faculty who taught them need fired.
Hmmm. The Hist-Lit Hit-List.