Religious Arrogance/Bigotry Email Huffington Post

bob.

So last semester in my Cross Cultural Psychology course we had a class on Religious Bigotry that resulted in an email to the entire class on that subject and the purpose of a university that made on to Huffington Post. He was then offered a job to blog for them which he accepted. Easily the best professor I have ever had.

Here is the article with the backstory and email, it is fairly long, but I highly encourage reading it, enjoy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/16/charles-negy-reddit-letter-to-students_n_1789406.html

WERDna · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Jan 2009 Posts: 541

That's what happens when a progressive class is accessible to regressive people. I always felt academia should enact a pre-requisite essay for students before being admitted to any non-basic course in college. Not so much over what you know about the content, but rather the quality of your intentions, and aspirations. People could of easily been weeded out before attending Cross Cultural Psychology..

bob. · Posted: Sep 09, 2012 9:05 pm Post subject:

He made it very clear on the first day of class that if you are not comfortable with your beliefs being questioned or if you are uncomfortable with challenging the status quo in general, then you should drop the course.

I really like your concept of a pre-requisite essay for classes of that sort though, that should exist for attending a university in general, but universities have become degree factories nowadays instead of a institutions of higher learning, so that wouldn't be applicable.

JeffKnox · Posted: Sep 14, 2012 3:51 pm Post subject:

bravo... i wish more voters had to take this class

Zero. · Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:44 pm Post subject:

i wish i wouldav taken the class with him now -.- , my teacher wasn't bad, but negy and his class seem much more interesting.

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

Negy sounds like the kind of guy whose class I would want to take just because he's a badass and is ready to challenge everything that you know. Is he still teaching or did he leave?

bob. · Posted: Sep 18, 2012 12:47 pm Post subject:

He is still teaching at UCF. I wish there were more classes I could take with him, he only teaches for general psychology, cross cultural psychology, and sexual behavior (which in my opinion should be a recomended course at every university), and I have already taken those with him. He also occasionally does cross cultural psychology courses during summer time in Central and South America.