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Contrast these departmental intro courses to Core courses (true, Ec 10 and A-12 are also Cores) and youll find more than one significant difference. For one, Cores are much more focused. They purport to teach modes of thought rather than provide a broad background in the topic itself. The aforementioned History 10a, a broad introduction to Western history, counts for the same Core credit as a class on the Cuban Revolution. Additionally, many of these Cores treat non-Western subject matters. These two differences seem to pose a bit of an internal contradiction. More likely than not, your department...
...courses already criticize the fact that they cover too much material too fast. These are the same people who rant that these courses unfairly privilege Western values. At least Western civ courses focus on a specific culture within defined boudaries, instead of focusing, like many global civ courses purport to do, on the boundaries where civilizations intersect. As McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven E. Ozment writes in the journal Public Interest, Although interesting and certainly au courant, a history that preoccupies itself primarily with the boundaries of civilizations runs a risk of becoming marginal history...
...reality of the situation is that if the BGLTSA continues on its track, it will also fragment its own community. People who have dedicated a significant amount of time and effort to advancing LBGT equality will become increasingly frustrated with the institutions that purport to represent and argue on their behalf such as the BGLTSA. In order to avoid this fragmentation, it is necessary that the BGLTSA work to encourage coalition building among constituents and further bridge the gap between politics and people...
...allegiance to this community of extremists, the Bush administration is betraying the Jews they purport to be supporting. Evangelical Christian Zionists not only want Jews to ultimately emigrate to Israel (regardless of whether or not they want to themselves), but would also be happy to let them stay there ’til the end of days—because unless they suddenly convert to Christianity, their supposed allies won’t be welcoming them to heaven...
...establishing a Women’s Center in this way would undermine the very “tenets of equality of access and opportunity” proponents of the proposal purport to advocate. Although the Center would welcome men and women, its exclusive emphasis on “the well-being of female students at Harvard” in effect singles out women for unwarranted institutional support...