Required Social Work Course on ‘Oppression and Injustice’ Canceled at U. Houston
“As part of upcoming changes to the curriculum and degree plan, this course will not be offered at this time”
Nature is healing. Social justice was not supposed to supplant social work.
The College Fix reports:
U. Houston cancels required social work course on ‘oppression and injustice’
The University of Houston canceled a course this month on social injustice and oppression that was required for students in the Graduate College of Social Work.
“As part of upcoming changes to the curriculum and degree plan, this course will not be offered at this time,” university officials wrote in a message to students, according to Inside Higher Ed.
“We understand that this adjustment may raise questions, and we want to assure you that it will not affect any student’s ability to successfully progress through the MSW program or meet graduation requirements on time,” they wrote.
The school did not explain why it was cutting the “Confronting Oppression and Injustice” course.
At least one section of the course had already begun when officials announced its cancellation, but students currently enrolled will be able to complete it, according to the email.
The description of the canceled course on the school’s website states that students “will examine a set of intersectional social justice issues, centering race, that impact our daily lives in differential ways and inform the prejudices we hold, and that exist, within larger structures of power.”
Social work professor Alan Dettlaff, who was set to teach the course later this fall, commented on the decision in a post on social media.
“Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum,” Dettlaff wrote on Bluesky.
“This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now,” he wrote.
The school’s American Association of University Professors chapter also condemned the decision to scrap the course, accusing administrators of censorship.
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Let me know when they cancel the Graduate College of Social Work. Until then, one rotten course, more or less, makes no significant difference.
““This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now,” he wrote.”
Outrageous. You should buy long johns and move to Massachusetts,
On reconsideration, isn’t this also a perfect description of the nomination of Kamala Harris, right down to the questionable e-memo “from” Joe Biden saying he was withdrawing from the race?