Top Journalism School Mandating Diversity Course to Earn Degree

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The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism redefines such phrases as โ€˜America is a melting potโ€™ as raced-based microaggressions.

Mandatory wokeness has crept into one of the top journalism schools in the United States.

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is requiring students to complete the course Diversity and Civility at Cronkite (DCC) in order to earn their bachelorโ€™s degree in journalism.

The course, which also applies to students studying sports journalism and digital media, redefines such traditional phrases as โ€œAmerica is a melting potโ€ as race-based microaggressions and teaches future journalists to avoid assuming โ€œunearned benefitsโ€ that come with โ€œheterosexual privileges.โ€

Examples of outdated heterosexual privileges given in the curriculum include excluding biological males who identified as female from traditional sex-segregated places like womenโ€™s locker rooms and womenโ€™s prisons.

โ€œTo object to a man using a womenโ€™s bathroom is an example of discrimination against transgender individuals,โ€ reads a chapter in the course entitled โ€œSexuality and Gender Identity.โ€

Also part of the seven-unit course is required reading material entitled โ€œA Guide to Gender Identity Terms.โ€

It includes lessons that emphasize the importance of asking someone for their preferred pronouns and using them.

โ€œYou should offer your own pronouns first and then ask for the other personโ€™s pronouns,โ€ the reading material states. โ€œWhile it can be awkward at first, it can quickly become routine.โ€

The course also teaches students to view statements like โ€œI believe the most qualified person should get the job,โ€ as a microaggression that translates into โ€œPeople of color are given extra unfair benefits because of their race,โ€ and โ€œEveryone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough,โ€ as implying that โ€œPeople of color are lazy and/or incompetent and need to work harder.โ€

In response to inquiries from The Epoch Times, the state-run college described the mandatory course as โ€œan entry-level course intended to bring thoughtful, open-minded discourse to issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, income, geography and other aspects of personal identities.โ€

Byย Alice Giordano

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