Posted on 04/07/2014 3:00:29 AM PDT by markomalley
San Diego State University has announced its an exciting, new graduate-level program.
This should really help graduates get a career-launching job…at the local coffee house. Or, in the case of San Diego, perhaps a regional brewery.
The university will offer an “Advanced Certificate in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies,” starting this fall.
According to a university press release, the purpose of the program is to “advance knowledge in sexual and gender identity, and increase understanding of the diverse cultural, historical, ethnic, racial and contemporary experiences of people across sexualities.”
The university boasts that the new LGBT certificate program will be one of only a few such programs offered in the U.S.
In addition to twelve units of academic course work, the certificate will require students to participate in community service and “activism.” The university statement does not specify what kind of “activism” students will perform, but internships and gay and lesbian themed “study abroad” trips will be part of the program.
This year, students in the LGBT study abroad program will travel to Jamaica as part of their taxpayer-funded coursework.
Other courses in the program include, “Sex & the Sacred,” “Lesbian Lives and Cultures,” and one course entitled, “Women and the Environment.”
San Diego State was among the first public universities in the nation to offer courses in LGBT Studies. Its first such courses date back to the 1970′s. “We saw a real need to build a program to pull all of the graduate-level classes that explore LGBT issues together into one place,” said Esther Rothblum, a women’s studies professor who heads up the new program.
Each summer for the past seven years, the university has held a rainbow flag raising ceremony on campus, in honor of San Diego’s Pride Week.
SDSU even hosts a special “Lavender” graduation ceremony each spring, reserved exclusively for students “who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or allies.”
Traditional academic disciplines such as mathematics, science, and the humanities, are not placed on a pedestal at San Diego State University. Instead, SDSU’s focus on race and sexual orientation extends to its core academic requirements. The university requires every undergraduate to fulfill a cultural diversity requirement in order to graduate. Meanwhile, it is possible to graduate without ever taking an American history course.
“Diversity is a cornerstone of a well-rounded education,” said provost Nancy Marlin in response to the university’s newest graduate-level program.
The “Advanced Certificate in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies” adds yet another weapon to San Diego State’s arsenal of programs designed to shape the moral and political views of the youth–all at taxpayer expense.
Well, there’s a degree which the career it prepares you for is running a fetish cross-dresser boutique or a prostitute or a queer bar pole dancer...money well spent! Ding ding ding, we have a winner.
lol
any idiot willing to pay for this deserves to drown in student debt.
My sincerest hope is that every liberal parent in America puts their child in this degree program at the most expensive schools in America !
Hee-hee! I think they make up these classes so the art folks will have someone else to laugh at.
Advanced Certificate in stupidity is all the get?.
Another reason why little Joanie, nee Johnny, can’t get a job after college.
What was that quote I heard about knowing more and more about less and less until you know everything about nothing?
neither-nor?
I doubt they teach that in school. That would be taught in advanced English, if it even existed.
Didn't they once say "We just want to be treated like everyone else"?
Now they have to have their own graduation ceremony?
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