Something that annoyed me greatly.
"Princeton Removes Greek, Latin Requirement for Classics Majors to Combat ‘Systemic Racism’"
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I am really annoyed that people are talking about this as part of the decline of western blah blah blah. I think it is much more obvious that the Classics department was dealing with dwindling enrollment and nuked the language requirement in order to appeal to more people.
I actually took a look at the Princeton Classics undergrad page. I know this was doing more research than 95% of the conservatives who will be about this.
https://ua.princeton.edu/academic-units … t-classics
Most of the courses in the major are cross listed with history/humanities/linguistics or just not available. After looking over the courses, is it possible the "Classics" major is redundant? I know this stuff is "OuR hErItAgE" but if no one is signing up for it, and all of the courses are cross listed with other majors maybe it is time to rethink the major?
"Princeton Removes Greek, Latin Requirement for Classics Majors to Combat ‘Systemic Racism’"
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pri … ic-racism/Classics majors at Princeton University will no longer be required to learn Greek or Latin in a push to create a more inclusive and equitable program, an effort that was given “new urgency” by the “events around race that occurred last summer,” according to faculty.
Last month, faculty members approved changes to the Classics department, including eliminating the “classics” track, which required an intermediate proficiency in Greek or Latin to enter the concentration, according to Princeton Alumni Weekly. The requirement for students to take Greek or Latin was also removed.
Josh Billings, director of undergraduate studies and professor of classics, said the shift will give students more opportunities to major in classics.
Billings said the changes had been floated before university president Christopher Eisgruber called for addressing systemic racism at the university, but the curriculum shift resurfaced as a priority after the president’s call to action and the “events around race that occurred last summer.”
“We think that having new perspectives in the field will make the field better,” he said. “Having people who come in who might not have studied classics in high school and might not have had a previous exposure to Greek and Latin, we think that having those students in the department will make it a more vibrant intellectual community.”
NR comments:
I am really annoyed that people are talking about this as part of the decline of western blah blah blah. I think it is much more obvious that the Classics department was dealing with dwindling enrollment and nuked the language requirement in order to appeal to more people.
I actually took a look at the Princeton Classics undergrad page. I know this was doing more research than 95% of the conservatives who will be about this.
https://ua.princeton.edu/academic-units … t-classics
Most of the courses in the major are cross listed with history/humanities/linguistics or just not available. After looking over the courses, is it possible the "Classics" major is redundant? I know this stuff is "OuR hErItAgE" but if no one is signing up for it, and all of the courses are cross listed with other majors maybe it is time to rethink the major?