Professors at other schools have added cautionary notes to their syllabi, but Columbia students have called for more say in the book-selection process, and for trigger warnings as campus policy
By Mike Vilensky
July 1, 2015 1:40 p.m. ET
A growing group of Columbia University undergraduates are calling for an overhaul to the school’s required reading list and asking whether classics with sexually violent content should bear cautionary notes.
The effort to add “trigger warnings” to texts has polarized universities around the U.S. At the New York City Ivy League school, it is focused on an introductory humanities course, “Masterpieces of Western Literature and...
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School’s Out at Columbia, but a Debate Over Trigger Warnings Continues - WSJ
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They're going to love Metamorphoses.
By Mike Vilensky
July 1, 2015 1:40 p.m. ET
A growing group of Columbia University undergraduates are calling for an overhaul to the school’s required reading list and asking whether classics with sexually violent content should bear cautionary notes.
The effort to add “trigger warnings” to texts has polarized universities around the U.S. At the New York City Ivy League school, it is focused on an introductory humanities course, “Masterpieces of Western Literature and...
To Read the Full Story, Subscribe
School’s Out at Columbia, but a Debate Over Trigger Warnings Continues - WSJ
yes, paywall but you get the gist. :lol:
They're going to love Metamorphoses.