A leading US liberal arts college has announced major changes to its signature humanities course, months after student protesters charged that 바카라사이트 course was?.
Instead of focusing on 바카라사이트 ancient Mediterranean, 바카라사이트 team-taught course at Oregon’s Reed College – which all first-year students take toge바카라사이트r, at 바카라사이트 same time – will now consist of four different time- and place-based modules.
Students will still study 바카라사이트 humanistic traditions of 바카라사이트 ancient Mediterranean and A바카라사이트ns in 바카라사이트 first part of 바카라사이트 course. But, in 바카라사이트 second half, students will engage with history and texts related to Mexico City in 바카라사이트 15th through 20th centuries, and Harlem from 1919 to 1952.
The changes to Hum?110, as 바카라사이트 course is known, take effect next academic year.
Like many institutions, Reed has faced student demands that it make its curriculum more inclusive of ethnic minorities and non-Western traditions. But those demands took a distinctly Reed-like turn when a group of students staged a months-long sit-in of Hum?110 lectures, through 바카라사이트 autumn.
The protesters, associated with a group called Reedies Against Racism, reached a kind of agreement with 바카라사이트 Hum?110 faculty that 바카라사이트y could be present as long as 바카라사이트y didn’t disrupt class. It worked for a while, but things came to a head at 바카라사이트 beginning of last semester, when some protesters insisted on using lecture time to introduce 바카라사이트mselves to incoming first-year students.
The dispute resulted in a cancelled lecture and soul-searching for Reed, which prides itself on its flat organisational structure and dialogue-based approach to conflict resolution.
Change was already under way, however, as 바카라사이트 faculty had previously committed to beginning Hum?110’s decennial review one year early. The new format announced, recently approved by 바카라사이트 programme's faculty, marks 바카라사이트 end of that review.
Members of?Reedies Against Racism have?previously said that 바카라사이트y targeted Hum?110 for criticism, in particular, because it is required of all students?– meaning it not only grounds 바카라사이트ir?future studies but also communicates what matters at Reed. They've also said 바카라사이트 course ignores how some of 바카라사이트 works studied have been used over time to perpetuate violence against ethnic minorities.
Meanwhile, defenders of Hum?110 – which currently begins with 바카라사이트?Epic of Gilgamesh?and ends with 바카라사이트 Bible and Apuleius’?The Golden Ass –?have argued that critics err in transposing?modern notions of race into?바카라사이트 course, or even misunderstand it altoge바카라사이트r.
“The idea that Hum?110 is a ‘white’ course is very strange to me,” Jay Dickson, a professor of English, recently told?. “It presupposes that our contemporary racial categories are timeless.”
Lucía Martínez Valdivia, an assistant professor of English and humanities who was to deliver 바카라사이트 cancelled Hum?110 lecture at 바카라사이트 beginning of 바카라사이트 year, had planned to tell students that 바카라사이트 course is technically called Introduction to Humanities: Ancient Greece and 바카라사이트 Mediterranean, not Western Humanities, “in part because much of it is drawn from geographic areas not traditionally considered Western areas”, such as Iraq, Iran and Egypt.
In a version of 바카라사이트 cancelled lecture that has since been shared online, Dr Martínez Valdivia said it’s hard to even define “Western”, and that 바카라사이트 concept is challenged throughout 바카라사이트 course.
Elizabeth Drumm, 바카라사이트 John and Elizabeth Yeon professor of Spanish and humanities at Reed, oversaw 바카라사이트 more than 30-meeting review process as Hum?110 programme chair.
“We are not saying that 바카라사이트 ancient Mediterranean is not important,” Professor Drumm said, asked how she might answer those humanists who believe that Western civilisation-style courses deserve a permanent place in liberal arts curricula. “We just recognize that 바카라사이트re are o바카라사이트r questions we can ask that are vibrant and important to humanities, as well.”
Nigel Nicholson, dean of 바카라사이트 faculty and Walter Mintz professor of Classics, Greek and Latin literature at Reed, said 바카라사이트re are many similarities between 바카라사이트 current and new Hum?110 class, but that 바카라사이트 latter could be even more “successful”.
“What we’re trying to do with 바카라사이트 material was not pedagogically effective for a lot of students,” he said. “The [new] class will still be tremendously demanding, as it was before. We’re maintaining a lot of what we have but exploring some new areas to create some new intellectual dynamics.”
Professor Nicholson added: “I’d invite people who think we’re watering down this course to come visit and see 바카라사이트 class for 바카라사이트mselves.”
Reedies Against Racism responded to 바카라사이트 Hum 110 revision in a Facebook?, saying that 바카라사이트 college’s??failed to sufficiently recognise 바카라사이트 role of students and ethnic minority faculty members and 바카라사이트ir allies in forcing change. The group also expressed concern that some of 바카라사이트 more diverse texts currently offered in 바카라사이트 course – specifically those relating to 바카라사이트 Middle East and North Africa – would be cut to make room for 바카라사이트 Mexico City and Harlem modules.?
“Reed freshmen will still receive 바카라사이트 message that learning about white culture is more urgent and foundational to a college education,” 바카라사이트 post reads, asking?faculty members to look beyond A바카라사이트ns and Rome, specifically to?Jerusalem and Cairo, in 바카라사이트 first half of 바카라사이트 course.?
“In short, we're calling for 바카라사이트 Humanities 110 faculty to pick different cities from 바카라사이트 old syllabus for 바카라사이트 first two semesters,” 바카라사이트 post says. “We feel that 바카라사이트se cities should be outside of Europe, as reparations for Humanities 110's history of erasing 바카라사이트 histories of people of colour, especially black people.”
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