Students at Virginia’s George Mason University are going to be required to take two courses designated as “Just Societies.” Here is GMU’s proud announcement.
What will this entail? GMU lays it out:
Courses with a Just Societies flag must meet both of these outcomes, in addition to other required course outcomes related to the primary Mason Core Exploration category. Upon completing a Just Societies course, students will be able to:
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a) Define key terms related to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion as related to this course’s field/discipline and
b) Use those terms to engage meaningfully with peers about course issues -
Articulate obstacles to justice and equity, and strategies for addressing them, in response to local, national, and/or global issues in the field/discipline
The courses that will be approved to satisfy this requirement will no doubt be grievance-dominated and utopian. What do you suppose would happen if a GMU professor proposed a course on the theme that the most just society would be one with a minimal government?