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  • George KG Offline
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    https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/chaucer-to-be-scrapped-as-british-university-decolonises-curriculum-20210121-p56vrn.html

    London: The University of Leicester will stop teaching the great English medieval poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer in favour of modules on race and sexuality, according to new proposals.

    Management told the English department that courses on canonical works would be dropped in favour of modules that "students expect" as part of plans now under consultation.

    Foundational texts such asThe Canterbury Tales and the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf would no longer be taught, under proposals to scrap medieval literature. Instead, the English faculty will be refocused to drop centuries of the literary canon and deliver a "decolonised" curriculum devoted to diversity.

    Academics now facing redundancy were told via email: "The aim of our proposals [is] to offer a suite of undergraduate degrees that provide modules which students expect of an English degree."

    New modules described as "excitingly innovative" would cover: "A chronological literary history, a selection of modules on race, ethnicity, sexuality and diversity, a decolonised curriculum, and new employability modules."

    Professors were told that, to facilitate change, management planned to stop all English language courses, cease medieval literature, and reduce early modern literature offerings.

    Despite Chaucer's position as "the father of English literature", he will no longer be taught if plans currently under consultation go ahead.

    They would end all teaching on texts central to the development of the English language, including the Dark Age epic poem Beowulf, as well as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

    Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, the Viking sagas, and all works written earlier than 1500 would also be removed from the syllabus

    'in favour of modules that "students expect" '

    Let's see how this approach works out in, say, physics, LOL.

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      God dammit. See this is why I don't even try anymore. This shit right here.

      You stupid mother fuckers.

      Please love yourself.

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      • CopperC Offline
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        Idiots

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        • Catseye3C Offline
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          I suppose I could be convinced to relegate Chaucer to a module within a larger course -- though it would take some extended persuasion. But to drop Chaucer to make room for courses on "race and diversity"? Get real.

          Maybe universities should focus less on "student tuition expectations" and more on higher education expectations from students. Ya think?

          Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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