When colleges and universities start offering courses like this, it isn’t about academic rigor, the striving for newer (and useful) knowledge. This is pandering in a pale (and useless) effort under the rubric of “transforming the world.”
Sorry, this is just out-and-out lame for the weak-minded that can’t do the math. Organic Chemistry would be like climbing Mt. Everest backwards for these underachievers that still want a “degree.”
You know what? These are the types of skulls full of nothing (quoting Rush with “skulls full of mush” would be too kind) wanting a diploma that Mom and Dad’s money is making a diploma worthless (emphasis mine)
University of Maryland Now Offering Minor in ‘Protest Art’
“Students in this interdisciplinary minor learn how artists and designers can play a vital role in advancing public dialogue”Students can now minor in “Creative Placemaking” starting this next semester at the University of Maryland.
“Students in this interdisciplinary minor learn how artists and designers can play a vital role in advancing public dialogue,” and will “[explore] our shared humanity and [while] addressing some of our major challenges,” according to the art department’s website. The new minor will help enrollees spark “conversations about racial injustice, inequitable development, climate change or celebrating the diverse communities and cultures around us.”
Starting to sound like a theological school of Woke to me. Swap out the Bible (heck, many Protestant mainline denominations have already done that), change the traditional sacraments and rituals, come up with new “hymnals” for protesting choirs, and there you go. The way it’s going, I would not be surprised to see a M.S. | Ph.D in Woke Divinity (where divinity is now redefined that WE are the god we worship anew) coming out of this.
To ask the question is to know the answer: and can you determine which Bible will be in use? “Traditional Values” or the “Progressive Obama Transformation of America” one?
Think Constitutional Conservatives would be welcome in the pews of this Church?
…“Coined by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2010, ‘creative placemaking’ is the collaboration of artists and designers with local residents and stakeholders to address community challenges and opportunities,” the media team wrote in its email. “Navigating the process with students allows them to practice the essential relationship-building, dialogue and collaborative decision-making involved in addressing a community’s needs and aspirations.”
Students in the program “will learn how to employ techniques like mural design, storytelling, pop-up installations, public events and performance to advance a community’s vision and nurture vibrant place” and “will engage in place-based art and design projects in partnership with local organizations, knowledge keepers, and artists in select areas of Maryland, including the Purple Line Corridor.”
No, someone like me (lack of artistic capability aside) would never be welcome there. In fact, I would be labeled a heathen, a heretic, or someone to be burnt at the stake immediately. But I will say, keeping in mind the words of Andrew Breitbart, “politics is downstream of culture,” that the Right had better come up with a better offering as this is just yet another effort by the Left to solidify its grasp on the Culture that now surrounds us.
The phrase used to be “The dumbing down of America.” This is the next illogical step: consider this part of the “Un-education of America”. Afterall,
(H/T: Legal Insurrection)
