Bachelor's degree

[George K]

This is beyond parody.

Of course, the old joke is that a degree which ends in "studies" is the first step to getting a job which requires you to wear a shirt with your name sewn on it

At Keene State College, in New Hampshire, you can get a Bachelor of Arts in Anti-Racist Studies.

They have a course requirement for "activism."

Integrative Studies Requirements
40 credits minimum

Major Requirements
40 credits

Foundation Course

4 credits

Choose one:

• IHAMST 140 What Is American Studies?
• IIPSYC 172 An Introduction to Restorative Justice
• IIWGS 101 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies

Threshold Courses

12 credits

Choose one class in Voices and Experiences of Colonized Peoples:

• IHAMST 248 Introduction to Indigenous Cultures of the Americas
• IHENG 240 Readings in American Literature

Choose one class in Race in Culture and Society:

• IIENST 150 Global Environmental Change
• ISGEOG 203 Globalization Culture & Place
• ISPOSC 210 United States Politics
• ISPH 285 Health in Society
• IHWGS 290 Topics in Women's and Gender Studies
• IIWGS 240 Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Pop Culture

Choose one class in Decolonizing Land and Society:

• IIAMST 250 Interpreting American Cultures
• COMM 250 Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement
• IIWGS 235 Approaches to Latinidades
• Capstone Core Course

4 credits

Choose one:

• AMST 495 Seminar
• PSYC 425 Psychology of Women
• WGS 495 Capstone in Women’s and Gender Studies

Upper-Level Electives

20 credits

Choose one class in Voices of Colonized Peoples:

• ENG 345 Studies in African American Literature
• ENG 347 American Indian Writers and their Cultures
• IHHIST 371 Africans in the Colonial Atlantic World
• HIST 360 Natives and Newcomers in North America: 1500-1766

Choose one class in Race in Culture and Society:

• COMM 360 Rhetoric Post Civil Rights Era
• GEOG 303 Politics of Place
• IHHIST 372 Gender and Power in Early North America 1600-1800
• HIST 362 American Slavery/American Capitalism 1787-1848
• PSYC 321 Culture and Psychology
• WGS 303 Latina Feminist Theories

Choose one class in Decolonizing Land and Society:

• AMST 490 Advanced Special Topics
• ENST 353 Restoration Ecology
• IIWGS 300 Critical Ethnic Studies
• WGS 301 Transnational Feminist Theories

Choose one class in Activism:

• ISENST 382 Environmental Advocacy
• POSC 312 Public Policy Analysis
• WGS 497 Internship

Elective: Choose one additional class from one of the topic areas listed above.

Electives
Select additional courses to reach a total of 120 credits for the degree.

Degree Requirements
120 credits
40 credits at the upper-level

[Catseye3]

@george-k said in Bachelor's degree:

An Introduction to Restorative Justice

You mean . . . there's more?

[Klaus]

@george-k said in Bachelor's degree:

They have a course requirement for "activism."

I agree with your sentiment about these kinds of study programs, but to be fair, they don't require their students to be "activists"; rather, these courses seem to study the way activism "works".

[George K]

@klaus said in Bachelor's degree:

to be fair, they don't require their students to be "activists";

That might be right. One of the courses under "activism" is an internship. We can guess what that means, however.

[Axtremus]

Re: the study of “activism”, maybe it’s not that bad. Without activism, all you have left to affect change would be revolution. Activism is more peaceful than revolution.

[Jolly]

Activism is the seed of revolution.

[Renauda]

@george-k said in Bachelor's degree:

One of the courses under "activism" is an internship. We can guess what that means, however.

Unmasking Trotskyists? Denouncing wreckers in the workplace? Volunteering to work on a farm? Learning to play piano works by Tikhon Khrennikov?