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But I've already pointed out ways in which schools could evaluate the pedagogical value of literature, history and civics courses, with no response to the substance of my argument at all. Are you taking the position that any course in history, civics or literature would be equally valid as a matter of pedagogy than any other merely because evaluation of such courses is more difficult or subjective than in science? Or that no university could possibly have legitimate grounds for rejecting a course in those fields? If so, please say so. If not, then we at least should be able to agree that some courses in those areas could legitimately be rejected for credit during the admissions process. Then we must move on to the question of whether these particular courses meet some reasonable criteria for either acceptance or rejection. But since neither of us, I presume, has seen the curriculum in any of the other classes, that will be difficult to do. However, given that I have seen large portions of the textbook from the science class that is being rejected and can say unequivocally that there is not only good reason to reject it but it would be foolhardy to accept it, I think it's reasonable to give the UC system the benefit of the doubt and think that they probably have equally good reason to reject the other courses. At the very least, it's vastly premature to go off into flights of fanciful rhetoric about the UC system refusing to accept Christian students, or the like. The evidence simply does not support such rhetoric at this point. Ed Brayton |
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