Texas Tech Regents Eliminate Several Race, Gender Studies Courses
“In total, the university leaders removed 21 classes from the list of core courses”
Will Democrats reverse all of this in the coming months?
The College Fix reports:
Texas Tech cuts gender, race classes from core course list
The Texas Tech University regents eliminated several “social justice” classes from the core curriculum during a meeting Wednesday, including one titled “Intersectionalities: Race, Class, and Gender in a Global World.”
In total, the university leaders removed 21 classes from the list of core courses that students must choose from to meet graduation requirements, The Texas Tribune reports.
By comparing the newly approved list to the current core offerings, The Tribune identified several classes on race and gender that the regents removed.
These included “a literature class focused on social justice and the environment, a women’s and gender studies course exploring race, class and gender, and a class on the Holocaust in literature and film,” according to the report.
“Literature, Social Justice, and the Environment” is the name of one of the classes, The College Fix found. According to the course description, it involves “critical study and writing about literary texts from multiple genres, periods, and traditions in relation to aspects of social justice and the environment.”
The eliminated class on “Intersectionalities” focuses on the “study of women’s experiences as influenced by such social statuses and identities as race, class, and global status,” the course description states.
Also eliminated were the classes “The Vampire in East European and Western Culture” and “Yoga and Creative Arts: Philosophy and Practice.”
However, the regents did not eliminate all gender or ethnic studies courses.
The core curriculum still will allow students to choose an “Introduction to Women’s Studies” class to fulfill the “Language, Philosophy, and Culture” course requirement.
Another still on the list is “Social Change in the Hispanic World,” which studies “culture and social change in Spanish, Latin American, Latinx, and U.S.-Mexico Border cultures through different cultural expressions such as language, text, image, and music.”
The regents’ meeting agenda explained that the changes stem from a mandatory review of the core curriculum every five years.
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“Will Democrats reverse all of this in the coming months?”
Probably. TT is doing this now to build up credibility with the government and the public, knowing that it will be reversed. Academia is all in on DEI; look at how many so-called “schools” have simply renamed their DEI departments or diffused them among other offices. Education in the United States – all education, without exception – has been thoroughly corrupted.
yeah,,, sure
just as the left is taking over texas…
this is so they can then get more money from the sympathetic pathetic lefty gov coming into office as they are playing as victims of djt
good move scum
but Ive figured you out
Simmer down. Yes, the last election was a kick in the teeth, but the GOP still controls the Texas state Senate, and the Texas governor’s office is probably the weakest in the country (by design). Not much will change.
SB17 and other anti-DEI laws will stay on the books, and the legislature is going to be largely gridlocked on anything that is not essential.
By removing these blowoff DEI courses from core curriculum eligibility, enrollment in them will go through the floor. And if there is not sufficient demand for such classes, the angry studies departments are likely going to have to shed staff and faculty.
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