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> How do you teach political science, history, basically any social science, or even freaking literature, while doing that? Even if it only required you to be "
by bitshiftfaced 1y ago
> How do you teach political science, history, basically any social science, or even freaking literature, while doing that? Even if it only required you to be "neutral" (which is not what it says), that would be impossible.
By keeping it descriptive instead of prescriptive. As to whether staff should be allowed to make prescriptive statements, I think there's an argument for both sides. Personally, it irked me when professors used the time I paid for to "enlighten" me about their personal worldview during time that could've been used for learning about the subject and leaving the student to decide what to make of it.
- Hizonner 1y ago> By keeping it descriptive instead of prescriptive. First of all, what it says is that they aren't allowed to talk about those matters at all. Read it. Second, even if that were not the case, I guarantee that if you write what you think is a "descriptive" syllabus, there are a bunch of other people who'll think it's extremely biased political indoctrination.
- bitshiftfaced 1y agoI did read it. It actually clarifies that staff/students can talk about politics in their individual capacity.
- Hizonner 1y agoTEACHING A CLASS IS NOT YOUR "INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY" IF YOU'RE A FUCKING PROFESSOR. And you cannot teach political science without talking about any political topics.
- UncleMeat 1y agoA friend of mine is an atmospheric science professor who publishes research on climate change modeling. His work is descriptive. He regularly gets hate mail from conservatives. Another friend of mine is a medieval history professor. When they teach intro courses they discuss more than just european perspectives on medieval history. They regularly get students complaining that their essays on why the crusaders should have killed every single muslim person get bad grades. Being descriptive is nowhere near sufficient to keep conservatives from screaming at professors.