- I can see that interpretation from their statement; however, IMO their more immediate goal may be to generate interest for a Black Studies department that meets the university’s criteria for rigor and scholarship. Currently, UChicago is the only top school without one. It could well be the Provost Lee has given permission to recruit 100% Black Studies grad students in order to jump-start that experiment. We simply don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes, as a poster or two has pointed out already. The Core already has a wide range of subjects one can study for Hum and Sosc; the College has added them periodically after the faculty committees determined that they were relevant and met the goals and objectives of these sequences. I highly doubt the long-standing traditional ones will be replaced as they are wildly popular. Unlike Yale, UChicago hasn’t canceled a popular course just because someone thought it was too “white, straight, European and male.”
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/01/24/art-history-department-to-scrap-survey-course/