Harvard University is offering a series of courses incorporating left-leaning themes in the 2024-2025 academic year, ranging from “queer pedagogy” to “street dance activism.”
The Ivy League university's course catalog includes a wide range of topics from gender and sexuality to critical race theory, with some classes teaching explicitly transgender historical cases and others focusing on contemporary policies and applications of gender and race theory. (Exclusive: Law school offers course to study rise of 'authoritarian Christian nationalism' in 'Trump era')
One courseTitled “Queering Education,” the course is aimed at education students and will explore “the role of gender and sexuality in shaping young people's school-based experiences” and “the role of school-based experiences in shaping young people's conceptions of gender and sexuality.” The course will focus on “the application of queer theory in school and community-based education settings.”
“In many ways, this course explores the heteronormative and cisgender-normative 'hidden curriculum' — the subtle practices in schools that privilege heterosexual and gendered identities and ways of life,” the course description reads. “Students in this course therefore apply the concept of the hidden curriculum to the study of gender and schooling.”
Students are expected to learn to “identify specific strategies” teachers can use to discuss gender and sexuality with students, to “open up possibilities for complex gender and sexual identity development” in the classroom, and to “evaluate a range of school practices, curricula, programs, and policies aimed at supporting healthy gender and sexual identity development among children and adolescents in the United States.”
We searched the Harvard University course catalog for the top 20 woke courses our classmates were taking. Courses selected included “Liberation Theology and Decolonization Theory,” “Queering Pedagogy,” and “Street Dance Activism.” See the full list here. https://t.co/AqNqL4N7Wg
— Harvard Salient (@SalientHarvard) September 10, 2024
Another course The listed course title is “Queer Nation: LGBTQ+ Protest, Politics, and Policy in the United States,” in which students will explore “targeted discrimination and widespread exclusion of queer people” in contemporary America.
“Any student interested in learning about this history and making a difference in our world will be welcomed, affirmed, and valued in this course,” the course description reads.
Harvard University class “Global Transgender History” argues for historical instances of gender ideology, asking, “What are our methodological and ethical obligations to transgender people and communities throughout history?” course The paper, titled “Gender in the Byzantine Empire,” examines gender and sexuality in the Byzantine Empire from 330 to 1453 AD.
“Emancipatory Inquiry: Listening, Learning, and Acting for Social Change” lesson “It is grounded in critical theory with emphasis on feminist theory, queer theory, disability theory, black critique, and decolonization theory.” class With a theme of “sin, sexuality, and race,” Christianity is examined in the context of “feminist and queer theory, black studies, ethnic studies, history, trans studies, and science fiction.”
“Street Dance Activism: Collaborative Choreographic Practice as Activism” Explore He preaches the “healing aspects” and “spiritual transcendence” of dance as a means of resisting an “anti-Black state,” and cites the death of George Floyd as his motivation for the course.
“It takes 28 days to change a habit, so imagine what would happen if we spent 28 days focusing on liberation,” the course description reads. “Liberation not as a single entity, but as a global collective consciousness. Black liberation is your liberation and your liberation is Black liberation.”
The total cost of attending Harvard for the 2024-2025 academic year will be $82,866 without scholarships. According to Visit the website. The university received $675 million in federal funding for research in 2023. According to In Harvard University's Annual Financial Report.
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