Undergraduate Univeristy courses left-wing agenda?

Anyone else who studies a subject which involves certain value judgments feel that the largely left-wing academics who teach them seem to try their upmost to offload their clear socialist agendas on you during lectures.

This has really started to annoy me, for instance I have to sit through 2 lectures a week in a module which was slyly called 'contemporary political issues' and consists of a trio of ridiculously biased modules, these are 'climate changes effect on developing countries' 'exploitation' and 'indigenous justice struggles' , and I have to suffer lectures every week teaching me how immoral and terrible my own country and the West is as if it is fact.

Why can't the left-wing academics keep their agendas to themselves, no-one is interested, and its detrimental to my learning which should only involve objective teaching. When they aren't teaching us in such a biased way, they are out on strike wanting to milk more out of taxpayers money because they have no regard for their students education and don't understand that they earn very good salaries in comparison to most people.

There is no such thing as objective teaching in the humanities and social sciences. You are not really thinking in an "adult" way until you can see the biases in favour of your own opinions. It is quite childlike to say that those whose opinions I disagree with are biased, but those whose opinions I do agree with are objective.

Of course there is, you teach both sides of the argument in a balanced way. But that does not happen in my experience, there is a clear agenda and certain arguments are discarded as nonsense.

Opinions should never come into teaching subjects such as Economics or Politics, it is up to the student to make their own mind up about issues , not a lecturers to dictate opinions as objective fact.

The view from nowhere is not a valid way to present an issue. I hope you and Algorithm69 are still in first year because if you've made it further than that thinking you can present history or politics impartially, or objectively by just presenting 'both sides', then quite frankly your lecturers are failing you for reasons other than a perceived left-wing bias.

So hang on, you think its a good thing to subject students to whatever kind of political leaning the lecturer happens to have, no matter how extreme or how valid the position?
What I'm saying is that clear lecturing agendas are counter productive to the students learning, and a somewhat pathetic way to try and get across an argument. e.g by spending less time on a major political or economic theory or just dismissing it entirely due to an ideological view - these kinds of actions should not be acceptable.

No, I'm saying that students will always be subject to whatever kind of political leaning the lecturer happens to have. There is no apolitical or truly objective way to teach politics or history.

You're also playing into the fallacy that because there is more than one perspective each is as valid as the other. This is the view from nowhere or the Fox News approach to teaching - teach the background of everything regardless of merit and let the viewer decide - and it is useless. Some perspectives will be more valid and it is perfectly right to give them more weight.

It doesn't matter if an accurate description of reality fits one particularly ideological notion over another - all that matters is that it is accurate.

Why would you want to get taught anything political from a uni? Just go and found out for yourself and make up your own mind. That's partly why I have gone down the science route.

I don't do a political degree, we just have to do certain optional modules outside our course.

A politics degree is not the only degree with politics in it.

Not really i feel most lecturers just regurgitate the right wing corporate text books and offer little thought.

There is no such thing as objective teaching in the humanities and social sciences. You are not really thinking in an "adult" way until you can see the biases in favour of your own opinions. It is quite childlike to say that those whose opinions I disagree with are biased, but those whose opinions I do agree with are objective.

Yes okay, but you still have not addressed the main issue which is that more often than not lecturers (job in public sector, very different to 'real world' jobs which many academics have absolutely no experience with) will have a very if not somewhat leaning towards left-wing views, are you suggesting that mere statistic alone makes these views the 'valid ones'? Yes, clearly more valid views should be given more weight in an ideal world, but why should this be decided on by lecturers which just means its their particular opinion which trust me is often highly unrepresentative of that of the common man.

Just sounds like you're very startled and unhappy about hearing things which challenge your cozy pre-formed opinions tbh.

your lecturers are tbh better placed than you are to know what are the important theories in their fields, whether or not these theories are known or liked by 'the common man' is neither here or there.

appeal to the common man is weak - why would anyone pay 9000 pa to recieve an education in the opinions of the common man?

This exactly, there exits no objective truth in these subjects, they're all viewed through one lens or another. Even hard sciences are political, you can never escape this and it's naive to think that you can - you've obviously not been paying attention in these lectures you dislike so much.

Anyone else who studies a subject which involves certain value judgments feel that the largely left-wing academics who teach them seem to try their upmost to offload their clear socialist agendas on you during lectures.

This has really started to annoy me, for instance I have to sit through 2 lectures a week in a module which was slyly called 'contemporary political issues' and consists of a trio of ridiculously biased modules, these are 'climate changes effect on developing countries' 'exploitation' and 'indigenous justice struggles' , and I have to suffer lectures every week teaching me how immoral and terrible my own country and the West is as if it is fact.

Why can't the left-wing academics keep their agendas to themselves, no-one is interested, and its detrimental to my learning which should only involve objective teaching. When they aren't teaching us in such a biased way, they are out on strike wanting to milk more out of taxpayers money because they have no regard for their students education and don't understand that they earn very good salaries in comparison to most people.