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Record for NoIndoctrination.org entry #81.

California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM)

Dec. 3, 2002

http://www.csusm.edu

Course: Comm 330: Intercultural Communications

Course Catalog Description: Introduces students to a number of conceptual and theoretical problematics that arise in the study of cultural and intercultural issues. Culture is treated as a meaning-based phenomenon which is both constraining and enabling. Special emphasis is placed on how the limits of one’s own culture may be expanded and how the constraints of one’s own culture may be transformed into potentially new enablements as a consequence of engaging in meaningful communicative interaction with others.

Professor: Dr. Dreama Moon

Required? Yes, for my major or minor

Lecture Bias: Excessive

Comments: Dr. Moon openly expresses an opinion that White, Northern European, Heterosexual Males are the root of the majority of all intercultural problems in the United States. She claims that White male attitudes are the dominant attitudes found throughout our society and that these are wrong thinking attitudes needing to be suppressed, rejected and changed. She tends to be very critical of all white male students in her class and routinely challenges them on their ideas, comments and points, while giving passes to women and minorities. When I politely challenged her on what appeared to me to be errors in her reasoning, the professor reacted with hostility. She is simply not open to opposing views.

Discussion Bias: Objectionable

Comments: Unfortunately this class had a feeling of hostility exuding from the instructor such that most students felt uncomfortable and thus were unwilling to speak up. She often personally criticized the individual for their opinions and would belittle them. The hostile environment did not in any way encourage "meaningful communicative interaction." (See course description.)

Readings Bias: Objectionable

Comments: She had us reading pieces that focused on issues of homosexuality and racism in the 20's through the 60's and attempted to claim nothing has changed.

General Comments: Dr. moon seems to fail to realize that the women's movement is only about 30 years old (1972). She likes to bring up issues such as the low percentage of Fortune 500 CEO's that are women. However, she fails to put this into context: most of these CEO's have 40 to 50 years experience since graduating from college. If one looks at the percentage of women graduating between 1962 and 1972 with degrees that would potentially lead towards a postion as CEO in a Fortune 500 business, the percentage that have achieved such position is significantly higher than the percentage of men graduating during the same time. Her arguments are routinely misrepresntations of reality since she fails to account for time in most of her arguments. She also refuses to recognise the fact that many of the inequities that she keeps bringing up can only be resolved if equity is achieved at the primary education first. In other words, if primary education is not preparing equal numbers of people from each of the many categories for college entrance, then there will not be equity in college, nor equity upon graduation, or at any level after graduation. She refuses to even look at these simple and basic facts. She simply keeps claiming that White Men are at fault for every problem we face.

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