Classic purpose of universities was ‘ pursuit of truth,’ professor says
A program called Queer Fiction Writing is on touch this flower at Kent State University — one of about 150 programs that discuss sex, gender, or LGBTQ+ subjects.
A research for “LGBTQ” in the KSU 2024-25 training library brings up 14 classes, and a hunt for “gender” brings up 98 programs. A search for” sexuality” brings up 47 courses. A few of the three issues ‘ training overlapped.
Among the options on click at the consumer, Ohio-based organization:” Queer Theory”,” Introduction to Transgender Studies”,” Race, Gender, and Social Justice”,” Development of Gender Role and Identity”, and” Feminist and Queer Art and Cultural Theory”.
A flier promoting the course” will write gay stories— and create stories queerly” states that students in it will do so. ” Learners will read examples of LGBTQ+ literature, and will examine the traditional literature writing workshop. Is the workshop become’ queered'”?
The program will get taught by Associate Professor Lauren Vachon, who uses they/she nouns, according to the rider, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix.
The professor is described as a “queer advocate” on her LinkedIn page interested in researching “LGBTQ past, gay education, creative writing as education, using oral histories in the classroom, and collecting homosexual oral histories”. Vachon has never responded to The Fix’s calls for an interview.
KSU Curriculum Services has yet to respond to a demand for a school curriculum. The LGBTQ+ club at KSU declined to comment, citing a occupied quarter.
One Christian knowledge regulator claimed that these classes frequently have a critical concept foundation and that there are a number of other classes that address gender, sexuality, or LGBTQ+ issues at Kent State.
Corey Miller, president of Ratio Christi, said the purpose of for groups is to teach kids” to revolt and destroy culture with its normative construction, including male and female, proper and wrong”.
” The students will learn in these classes new woke ( i. e. enlightening ) insights about themselves and the world and will take it with them into the workplace, like a train carrying ideological cargo from campus to culture”, said Miller, author of the forthcoming book” The Third Revolution: From the Campus to the Culture and a Vision Forward”.
According to Miller, the initial goal of all colleges was to find the facts.
Now, the school “is now a hotbed of engagement, moving an intellectual revolution from school downstream to the culture downstream”, he said via email.
Miller continued, noting that many professors “in the social sciences and humanities today support the postmodern notion that all things once regarded as normal and good are but repressive social constructs” and that “knowledge is a social construction of reality”
At Kent State, some classes that would n’t at first appear to contain LGBTQ or feminist ideas actually do, according to course descriptions.
A course titled” Nations and Borders” will take a “historically-grounded and global approach to state production and displacement ,]through ] critical texts—many of which are grounded in feminist and queer theories —]to] address various interpretations of boundaries, especially national and corporeal”.
A course on the” Histories and Theories of Photography and Visual Culture” will examine” critical approaches to the history of art, including ecocriticism, feminism, critical race studies, queer studies and borderlands studies”.
According to Miller,” These classes are intended to teach students how to liberate themselves from the normative and normal aspects of life and western civilization, in favor of queering, decolonizing, and deconstructing every societal norm down to the fundamentals,”” these range from one’s own sense of gender and sexuality to queering God and Christianity.”
Miller pointed The College Fix to a class taught at Yale Divinity School titled Queer Theology, and taught by lesbian theologian, Linn Tonstad.
” Current DEI programs will pave the way for these woke concepts to enter and impact the workforce, from the corporate world to K-12 education”, Miller said.
Teachers will teach K-12 students how to” think from a queer perspective and pursue their own sexuality and gender, disrespecting and disregarding norms as socially oppressive constructs,” he said.
” It’s high time common people took into account our own ideological revolution in universities. When the issues in academia come from upstream, we ca n’t continue pouring chlorine downstream,” Miller said.
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