It's hard to believe the latest news from Yale. Yale has long offered a survey course in Art History that covers the period from the Renaissance to current times. Obviously, a course like that cannot cover everything. The point of the course is to offer students some knowledge about great works of art that form part of the core of modern civilization. Now, however, Yale is dropping the course after many complained that it did not provide adequate coverage of art from other areas that are not part of western culture. The PC idiots running the art history department are so afraid of offending anyone whose favorite civilization is not represented in the course, that they are just dumping the whole course.
Think about this. Imagine that there is a course in the history of music which focuses on European and American composers since 1500. After objection the music department drops the course. Or suppose that the History department offers European history as a course. That too should be dropped because it doesn't include Asian or African history. And then there's math courses that use Arabic numbers. Should that be dropped because it belittles Roman numerals or other forms of numbers? Should introductory courses in French be dropped because they ignore Spanish speakers?
If there are gaps in these courses, it would be easy enough to offer an introductory course in Asian art or African art to fill in those gaps. The way to deal with this sort of problem is not to deprive the students of knowledge of art in general.
It's hard to believe that the geniuses on the faculty at Yale are really this dumb.
Think about this. Imagine that there is a course in the history of music which focuses on European and American composers since 1500. After objection the music department drops the course. Or suppose that the History department offers European history as a course. That too should be dropped because it doesn't include Asian or African history. And then there's math courses that use Arabic numbers. Should that be dropped because it belittles Roman numerals or other forms of numbers? Should introductory courses in French be dropped because they ignore Spanish speakers?
If there are gaps in these courses, it would be easy enough to offer an introductory course in Asian art or African art to fill in those gaps. The way to deal with this sort of problem is not to deprive the students of knowledge of art in general.
It's hard to believe that the geniuses on the faculty at Yale are really this dumb.
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