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...obvious that the Core needs reform. It doesn't work. With a very few notable exceptions, professors don't want to teach the classes, students don't want to take the classes. But I'd rather have six more Core requirements than one "Western Civ" class. I'd rather double my science requirements than be told I am about to read the "Great Books...
...have Historical Studies, Literature and Arts, Science and Social Analysis. It would be unfair to deny scholars of different cultures their credit for offering non-white, non-male course in these areas, but for the most part, "Western Civ" abounds...
Those who decry the omissions of Western Civ courses do not mean to weigh the virtues of other systems against those of Western democracy. They intend to impress us with the impossibility of such comparisons. The call for these offerings is not made because certain overlooked books are--by some standard--deserving of attention. The claim for the overlooked books is made out of the conviction that any standard must reflect someone's opinion--and therefore must be replaced by a non-discriminating "openness...
Faculty members point out that the new list, which was never meant to be exhaustive, will be supplemented by readings that will vary depending on the emphasis of different CIV teachers. Yet the compromise is a clear signal that Stanford intends to recognize the essential pluralism of Western civilization -- in literary as well as social terms. The major remaining question is how far professors will go in bringing the study of women and minorities into CIV courses...
...University of Arizona's future Western Civ courses, James Baldwin may stand with the seventh-century B.C. poet Sappho, while the Homeric Hymn to Demeter shares center stage with Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway...