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The Humanities Have Forgotten Their Humanity
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UCLA replaces a traditional requirement for English majors of one course in Chaucer, two in Shakespeare, and one in Milton. Shakespeare now joins the "Empire" and becomes part of Imperial studies even though the empire came long after Shakespeare. The new requirement is for a total of three courses in four areas: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Disability and Sexual Studies; Imperial, Transnational, and Postcolonial studies; genre studies, interdisciplinary studies, and critical theory; or creative writing. How do you get a degree in English without Shakespeare, is the question posed by critics of the change.
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Should rubrics of "gender, sexuality, race and class" be materials one is free to explore on ones own to broaden one's understanding, and the humanities in literature, including the learning from the Greeks and Roman authors to the Renaissance authors, and Shakespeare down to the modern day, be part of the core humanities studies, is the question posed by UCLA removing established requirements for humanities studies. It matters a lot because of a common western tradition shared by all cultures and races from Asians to Europeans. One is free to explore the rest of literature, including such fascinating works as the Tale of Genji from Japanese literature and other works on ones own.
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