
A recent report by Investor's Business Daily documents the disturbing trend in American higher education away from teaching the great works of Western civilization and toward the teaching of many disciplines through the eyes of the oppressed. As an example, the report points to the University of California Los Angeles, which no longer requires English majors to study Chaucer, Shakespeare, or Milton, but instead requires students to take classes that examine literature through alternative rubrics such as gender and sexuality.
UCLA is not alone. The 2015-16 course offerings listed in catalogs from area campuses reveal a seismic break from the classics.