[Vision2020] Say What?

[Saundra Lund]

Hi Sunil,

 

I didn't take time to check out each & every CSU campus, but I checked
enough to know that there aren't seven or eight campuses that don't offer US
History.  For anyone else interested, you can access each campus from the
following link:

http://www.calstate.edu/

 

Here's more about the UC facts:

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/04/02/456547/santorum-uc-american-hi
story/?mobile=nc

 

In fact, of the 10 UC system schools, just one (San Francisco) doesn't offer
American history courses. But that's because it doesn't offer any humanities
courses at all - it's a medical school.

Meanwhile,
<http://general-catalog.berkeley.edu/catalog/gcc_search_sends_request>
Berkeley,  <http://www.editor.uci.edu/catalogue/hum/hum.14.htm> Irvine,
<http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/ucdwebcatalog/PDF/07GenCatUgradEdu.pdf> Davis,
<http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/catalog11-12-400.htm#445416584_pgfId-
1003847> Los Angeles,
<http://ssha.ucmerced.edu/2.asp?uc=1&lvl2=41&lvl3=41&lvl4=107&contentid=144>
Merced,  <http://catalog.ucr.edu/scribd.html> Riverside,
<http://www.ucsd.edu/catalog/courses/HIST.html> San Diego,
<http://my.sa.ucsb.edu/Catalog/Current/CollegesDepartments/ls-intro/hist.asp
x?DeptTab=Courses> Santa Barbara, and
<http://reg.ucsc.edu/catalog/html/undergrad_acad.html> Santa Cruz all offer
numerous American history courses. All require students to take U.S. history
before they can graduate.

University of California spokesperson Brooke Converse emailed to note that
<http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/graduation-requ
irements/history/index.html> every single UC undergraduate program is
required to study "American history and institutions," though specific
requirements vary at each campus.

 

It seems to me the real question is:  what exactly is it that Santorum was
reading to give him such gross misinformation?  Quite the hit job - no
matter how inaccurate -- on California higher education, but is that
surprising coming from Santorum?

 

The baffling thing to me is that even when the GOP/TPers get snookered by
special interest groups that thrive on providing misinformation, they don't
seem to learn the lesson & keep right on sucking up the muck.

 

 

Saundra

 

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Sunil Ramalingam
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 9:26 PM
To: vision 2020
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?

 

Nick,

Tim White got his doctorate at Berkeley, and didn't go to Davis.

I went to Davis and took courses on American history there. Maybe Santorum
meant the Cal State system? Hmm, I went to Sac State too, and took American
history courses there too. Maybe they took them off the curriculum.

Sunil

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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 21:18:18 -0700
From: ngier006 at gmail.com
To: thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?

I'm sure that the entire UC system has responded to Santorum already, but I
just checked the history dept. at UC Davis (that is where our illustrious
former president Time White went) and they have tons of courses on American
history.

 

Nick

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

"I was just reading something last night from the state of California. And
that the California universities - I think it's seven or eight of the
California system of universities don't even teach an American history
course. It's not even available to be taught."

- Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum (April 2, 2012)

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http://sfist.com/2012/04/02/rick_santorum_claims_california_universities_are
_ruining_america.php

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asTPft2-RWw
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asTPft2-RWw&feature=player_embedded>
&feature=player_embedded

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Some things you just can't make up.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown



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