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Critical Identity Studies
Beloit College ^ | 09-09-2018 | Staff

Posted on 09/14/2018 9:50:32 AM PDT by ptsal

The Department of Critical Identity Studies seeks to develop students’ understanding of how social identities—like race, gender, sexuality, class, dis/ability, nation, non/religiosity—have formed historically, along with the ways those identities play out in the complex and multicultural worlds in which we now live—and this includes the College's campus!

Combining a variety of academic disciplines (gender and women’s studies, ethnic studies, queer studies, disability studies, postcolonial studies), Critical Identity Studies (CRIS) investigates the ways identities are shaped within structures of inequality and through systems and practices of power and resistance.

From the introductory course, “Sex and Power,” to the advanced theoretical courses which include “Whiteness,” “Masculinities,” "Gender Bending," "Race and Culture," "Feminism and Politics," "'Black Lives Matter," and “Thinking Queerly,” CRIS courses are always interdisciplinary, intersectional, and oriented toward social justice. As such, Critical Identity Studies emphasizes the importance of communicating across differences as a means to fulfill the College’s mission of empowering students “to lead fulfilling lives marked by high achievement, personal responsibility, and public contribution in a diverse society.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: college; cris; gender; sex
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College is just not what it used to be. /sarc
1 posted on 09/14/2018 9:50:32 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: ptsal; Lazamataz

Waiting for a comment from Laz


2 posted on 09/14/2018 9:51:30 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: ptsal

My comment is that there is utterly no productive career path that would employ these degrees or courses.


3 posted on 09/14/2018 9:54:06 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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Our colleges and universities are filled with people who do not know if they are male or female, queer or normal, and are sad and conflicted at being white.

So. Thank God for Critical Identity Studies to help these poor snowflakes find out who they are!


4 posted on 09/14/2018 9:55:28 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Rats, RINO's and O-Tips. They all want Sessions to stay.)
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/src on/And only $60 k a year./src off/ The school is a joke as almost 70% of applicants are admitted. One can get indoctrinated much cheaper by going to Univ of Wisconsin in Madison.


5 posted on 09/14/2018 9:58:02 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Responsibility2nd

And maybe, just maybe, which bathroom to use!


6 posted on 09/14/2018 9:58:46 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Lazamataz

Ego ergo Id


7 posted on 09/14/2018 9:59:23 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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Say what? Another internal cottage industry to employ the unemployable in college administration and to suck down federally guaranteed funds.


8 posted on 09/14/2018 9:59:49 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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I cannot take that CRIS curriculum seriously as there is no mention of unicorns.


9 posted on 09/14/2018 10:00:33 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: C19fan

The Beloit grads could pick up a complimentary degree at Evergreen State.


10 posted on 09/14/2018 10:01:07 AM PDT by ptsal
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Department of Critical Identity Studies

The Department of WTF??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!


11 posted on 09/14/2018 10:10:00 AM PDT by Maceman (We need a temporary ban on Muslims just until churches and synagogues can be built in Mecca.)
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Should be CIS, not CRIS. My guess as to why: CIS would remind people of cisgenders, people whose gender identity matches their biological gender. That would be a micro-aggression.


12 posted on 09/14/2018 10:10:15 AM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: Lazamataz

People pay money for this rubbish?


13 posted on 09/14/2018 10:11:10 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Any company hiring an idiot with this degree deserves what they get.


14 posted on 09/14/2018 10:12:59 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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They live in a separate world. It’s certainly not the Earth I live on. They need to go back there, since they have denied human nature and are not fit to remain on this planet.


15 posted on 09/14/2018 10:14:48 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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> My comment is that there is utterly no productive career path that would employ these degrees or courses. <

And woe to any company that would actually hire one of these graduates. Because they all are outraged people in search of an outrage.


16 posted on 09/14/2018 10:16:29 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Colored man good, woman good, White man BAD!

Seriously, someone needs to slap these snowflakes up the head and say that nobody cares who your ancestors were, where they came from or hod badly they were treated. People care about who YOU are and what you have to offer.

17 posted on 09/14/2018 10:17:51 AM PDT by CtBigPat (I was a Tide Pod addict but I'm clean now.)
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Study engineering
A REAL subject


18 posted on 09/14/2018 10:20:51 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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Combining a variety of academic disciplines (gender and women’s studies, ethnic studies, queer studies, disability studies, postcolonial studies)....

Academic disciplines? More like academic insanity.

19 posted on 09/14/2018 10:21:47 AM PDT by catpuppy
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The graduates are groomed to be leftist’s.


20 posted on 09/14/2018 10:23:31 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day)
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