WSJ snickers at Wes curriculum

froshdad
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:52:24 +0000

Of course, the WSJ book reviewer, who holds up Yale’s curriculum as more sensible, could just as easily have mentioned Yale courses such as “Caribbean Diasporic Literature” and “Queer Ethnographies.” His argument, incidentally, erects a false dichotomy between the pursuit of broad knowledge and the specialization of professors.