“Crossing Identity Boundaries” aims to expand students’ “self-awareness” and help them develop “dialogue skills.”

Taking the course, offered through the Department of Educational Studies, is one way students can fulfill the university’s mandatory diversity requirement, and many sections are offered throughout the school year.



The course coordinator and instructors involved in teaching the class did not respond to requests from The College Fix seeking comment.

Part of the homework includes taking two “implicit bias tests,” and writing journals on prompts such as “power/privilege in your life” or calling on Christians to write about what it might feel like to be Muslim, or males on what it’s like to be female, and “reflecting on how this new identity would have impacted your day.”

One big part of the class is a microaggressions group presentation and reflective paper.

The assignment, according to a syllabus, calls on students to “find at least 12 examples of microaggressions using at least 3 different types of social media (e.g., Yik Yak, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest). Explain who the target

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At first I thought it would be a good thing, for people to step outside themselves. A prudent thing. To challenge ones "self" is good and leads to greater knowledge.....

However, I clicked on your link, only to find it was targeted to "whites" only.

So, if I am to understand the rationale behind this, they are to teach us about being prejudice, by being, prejudice.....
Sorta like teaching about intolerance, by being, intolerant.

Not really sure how that works.....

Well maybe, if you adopt indoctrination mentally, it can be effective.
However, wouldn't they see how the KKK membership has dwindled to nothing, since they practice similar methods?

Here's a question.....
Why use guilt?

Can we chide fat people, to be skinny?

Lazy people, to be productive?

Gays, to be straight?

WHAT......oh, they already do, you say?

How is that working out?

Something is way wrong about$2,000.00/ month JUST for a roof and three  meals a day. College dorms are just a room for two and desks.. The bathroom is down the hall. It's not a hotel. I could make money just housing them..

Okay, well, that drops it down from absolute insanity to seriously questionable.

T And T Garage wrote on 01/30/17 at 08:00:49:

BAsed on the link you provided it seems like a far left propaganda course to me

I have no problem with empathy, but this class seems to be pandering to the victim culture and the false narrative of the far left.  Normally, that wouldn't be a problem, hearing everyones beliefs to make your own judgment is a good thing, except that the far left has taken over the university system and has repeatedly tried to censor any opposition to their ideology.  For this reason it is indoctrination rather than the presentation of alternate views.

T And T Garage wrote on 01/30/17 at 09:07:37:


Yes, having not sat in on the class it is a educated interpretation based on the wording and the Left buzz word language used in the description.  But seriously, are you really going to argue that it may not be a left narrative course, what do you think the likelihood of that is?  I would say it is close enough to 0 to just round down to 0.

I dont think your understanding my point, the problem isn't the class itself ,even though I would probably not agree with most of it, it is that it is the only views given.  We don't know what the right course would be because it is not offered.  When you only give one side it is for the purpose of indoctrination not for an open debate.