Departments of Conservative Studies

In the future many colleges and universities, having for the most part driven conservatives and traditionalists out of the academy, will invite them back in under the guise of multiculturalism. Rather than replacing entire religion, history, philosophy, art, and literature departments with traditionalists, they will create an academic ghetto for the conservatives and traditionalists to inhabit. These academic ghettos will be called Departments of Conservative Studies.

Some of the topics will include:

• Introduction to Religion: Taught from a point of view generally friendly to Judeo-Christian religion.
• Greek Spoken Language
• Greek Literature
• Latin Spoken Language
• Latin Literature
• Hebrew Language
• Old English Language
• The Ancient Greeks: History, Mythology and Literature, including drama, of the ancient Greeks.
• Rome: History and Literature of the ancient Romans.
• Jewish History: History and Literature of the Jewish people.
• Christian History: History and Literature of Christian Africa and Europe up to the Enlightenment.
• Natural Philosophy, Empiricism and the Birth of Physics: From Aristotle, Plato and Archimedes to Galileo, Bacon, Newton, Descartes, Hobbes, Burke, Locke, Franklin and Boyle.
• From Ramses to Napoleon: Pre-Modern Warfare: History, theory, practice, and literature of War from the beginnings of history to the campaigns of Emperor Napoleon.
• From the Civil War to 4GW: History, theory, practice, and literature of War from the outbreak of total war in the Civil War to the present day and 4th Generation Warfare.
• Muhammad and Islam: Islam's history, ethics, literature, and way of war, its rise and fall, and its modern-day Wahhabist and Khomeinist Jihad revivals.
• The Terror: From the French Revolution to the Marxist, Nazi, Maoist, and Khomeinist revolutions. The history and literature of atheist or religious, idealist, revolutionary movements and their aftermath.
• Anthropology: An overview of the historical development of human Subsistence patterns, Economics, Kinship, Civic Works, Government, Religion, and Education.
• Liberalism: From Democracy to Republic, History and Literature of the political will to achieve and secure individual liberties.
• Religion, Morals and Ethics: The history and literature of Judeo-Christian moral and ethical thought from Genesis through Vatican II. With a brief introduction that surveys the Greek moral philosophers.
• Rhetoric: The art and practice of logical thinking (including how to recognize and oppose logical fallacies) and persuasive speaking and writing.
• Currents of Modern Conservative Thought: Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Edmund Burke, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Russell Kirk, F.A. Hayek, Leo Strauss, Ayn Rand, William F. Buckley, Milton Friedman, Irving Kristol, and Ronald Reagan.

Looks like a syllabus I, or anyone, could learn a few thousand useful things from.

This article was shortened and crossposted from Wolf Pangloss @ Wordpress