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Comment author: FrameBenignly 01 December 2014 08:57:42PM 0 points [-]

I can see your point about social sciences, but I would think this doesn't apply to most of the humanities. How is a creative writing, theatre, or communications course fraught by ideological criterion?

Comment author: Nornagest 01 December 2014 10:13:17PM 4 points [-]

In a word: theory. I didn't take as many of those classes in college as I did social science, so I'm speaking with a little less authority here, but the impression I got is that the framework underpinning creative writing etc. draws heavily on critical theory, which is about as value-loaded as it gets in academia.

The implementation part, of course, isn't nearly as much so.