(February 18, 2015 at 9:39 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Let's face it, colleges in Oklahoma exist for football and fucking. Doesn't matter what's in the books...no one reads them.
I'd agree if you changed the word "college" to "high school." Oklahoma has three good public universities, though I cringe to say it. The problem isn't the colleges. It's the fact that not enough people GO to them. And that so many that do drop out. I'm gonna bet a lot of voters only took high school US history, taught by Oklahoma republican idiots who skewed it to their perspective. They want to keep their delusions that America is perfect and above reproach. That it is lily white and christian and the pinnacle of civilization.
Granted the US history course I took in college I took in Missouri and transferred it to OK. So I don't know what they are teaching here. But I do know that they offer this course (I WANNA TAKE IT!!!!!):
Quote:HONR 1000.708
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Confronting Pseudoscience
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This course will use an examination of a wide range of pseudoscientific ideas and beliefs as a way of understanding what the difference is between true scientific endeavor and non-scientific belief systems (and hopefully have a certain amount of fun in the process). The course takes as its basic premise that there is a real difference in the type of knowledge associated with a true scientific endeavor and those associated with
pseudoscientific belief systems. We will investigate how pseudoscientific beliefs systems try to utilize that vocabulary and some of the methodology of the sciences in an attempt to validate their beliefs systems. Pseudoscientific topics covered will include (but are by no means limited to) Homeopathic medicine, Bermuda triangle,vaccination denial, moon landing denial, and Creationism.
