liberalogic
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It becomes more prevalent in social sciences then the 'hard' sciences. But it's getting bad there too with profs pushing man-made global warming and all. I saw plenty of it (left bias) as a poli-sci major. One prof went so far as to make sure we knew he was a socialist.
Honestly I don't have much beef with what is taught, worthless as I may believe it to be. There was no shortage of classes for woman's studies, feminism, peace, social justice, animal rights, etc. at the college I went to. Though we were just the second college in the nation to have a men's studies program. My thought is if your gonna pay money to learn something eventually I would think you would want some kind of return on your investment.
As I alluded to in another thread, it seems college is no longer (and maybe it never was) a place to prepare people for life after college. They don't seem to teach much that is going to aid you in a career other than your pre-med, pre-dent, education. I think it would be great if colleges taught more in the area of personal finance. How many kids comeing out of college know the ropes of purchasing there first home? Or how many get suckered into credit cards each year?
You do not make any suggestions as to how a traditional liberal arts curriculum can be changed to bend the apparent "liberal bias." A men's course would be irrelevant because they are already the centerpoints of so many subfields of history. For instance, how would you propose to teach a survey lecture class on the U.S. after WWII? What parts of the curriculum would you consider to be left-leaning? Why? So far, no one has provided a solid answer to this type of question.
I once took a class called Interesections: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in US History. It was an admitedly bias class from the onset because she informed us that we would use Foucaultian techniques to analyze the interesections of these three themes (and others of US History). Yes, that is a left-leaning class, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed and certainly most of the courses are not that far out there.
I think you hit a point when you talk about preparing for life. I call that high school. All of those ideas (from credit cards to financing college, etc., etc. etc.) are integral to our development in life. But these ideas shoould be imbedded in a high school curriculum because not everyone goes to college. Very good point that you brought to my attention.