This spring, UC Berkeley students could enroll in Ethnic Studies 198, a course devoted to combatting Proposition 209 by creating "a political strategy for a successful 'pro-diversity' initiative in the State." But Ethnic Studies 198 may tell us more about the dumbing down of the college curriculum than it does about the politicized classroom.

UPDATE: NoIndoctrination.org has clarified that Ethnic Studies 198 is, despite appearances to the contrary, a professor-led, as opposed to student-run, course in political activism. The course is part of a university-wide initiative called the "Chancellor's Diversity Research Seminars for Undergraduates." As NoIndoctrination.org notes, such a course is in flagrant violation of UC policy on course content, which clearly states that the university must "remain aloof from politics and never function as an instrument for the advance of partisan interest."