Does Barnard College Think Diversity is More Important Than Language and Science?
It sure looks that way.
Katherine Timpf of National Review reports.
Barnard College May Ease Language and Science Recs and Add a Diversity One
arnard College is considering cutting back on the school’s language and laboratory-science requirements and add a diversity requirement.
The new rules would decrease the language requirement to two semesters and the laboratory-science requirement to one semester The changes would add a technology requirement as well.
The diversity requirement would replace a category called “Cultures in Comparison,” which covers “various cultures and countries,” and would focus “on local, global, and social issues,” according to an article published in the Columbia Spectator.
Faculty presented the proposal at a curriculum-review meeting on Thursday. According to Provost Linda Bell, Barnard, a women’s college affiliated with Columbia University, hopes to finish the review by the end of the spring term and implement the changes beginning with the class of 2020.
Barnard students had expressed concerns about the lack of diversity in their curriculum at a series of town halls last semester.
Barnard College May Ease Language and Science Recs and Add a Diversity One (National Review)
Comments
It’s not a science school. So who cares? It’s not as if post feminist lesbian dance majors were being hampered in their job search by having to take statistics.
The average non science major now gets so little exposure to science that lowering even more means these students will be generally worthless in the real world. However, I am sure that they will be fine in their parent’s basements.