"Race, Gender, Class, and Culture": Freshman Seminar Ignites Controversy.

Heller, Scott

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Publication Date: 1992

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"Race, Gender, Class, and Culture": Freshman Seminar Ignites Controversy.

Heller, Scott

Chronicle of Higher Education, v28 n21 pA33,35 Jan 29 1992

The College of Wooster (Ohio) has instituted a required one-semester freshman seminar, designed to teach students critical writing and thinking skills, and focusing on racism and sexism in U.S. society. Critics see the seminar as a left-wing attempt to ensure "political correctness." (DB)

Descriptors: College Freshmen, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking, Cultural Differences, Discussion Groups, First Year Seminars, Higher Education, Racial Discrimination, Racial Relations, Sex Bias, Thinking Skills, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction

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