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To: karpov

He elaborated: “The class will also consider art in relation to questions of gender, class and race” and discuss its involvement with Western capitalism. Art’s “relationship with climate change” will also be a “key theme.” Incidentally, the course was extremely popular among students, a significant number of whom were disappointed and dissatisfied with this sudden change.


because now the standard is so low, students see an easy high grade for little relative study and effort. in other words, the class has become the art equivalent of under water basket weaving


2 posted on 02/21/2020 4:45:43 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

Considering what the article says about the Chairman of Yale’s Art History Department, it’s probably a good thing that the course was cancelled.


6 posted on 02/21/2020 5:21:06 AM PST by Savage Beast (The malevolents' great fear is Trump's commitment to truth. That's scary to the untruthful.)
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To: PIF

I think you misread that, the OLD course that celebrated the Western canon was what was popular with the students, not this new “woke” humanities curriculum.


13 posted on 02/21/2020 9:24:21 AM PST by Boogieman
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