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Apparently, for increasing numbers of Berkeley students, the prospect of fixing our own country’s problems just isn’t enough anymore–not when they can minor in saving the whole world! OK, so that might be a bit of a gross over-simplification, but the numbers are in and “Global Poverty and Practice” has officially taken education’s spot as Berkeley’s most popular minor.
The minor has been around for just two years, but darn if it ain’t just the fastest-growin’ li’l academic sprout you ever did see–thanks in no small part to super-professor Ananya Roy. And fortunately for the existential well-being of the 150 or so global poverty minors running around campus, she’s got the savvy to preemptively discourage delusions of globe-rescuing grandeur:
“We don’t send out students to miraculously solve and fix problems,” said Roy. “We hope they will make a tangible and responsible contribution, but most of all we hope they will be transformed and humbled by their experience, that they will learn from the work of organizations and communities, that they will recognize that they are getting much more than they can ever give.”
Well, we can’t argue with that.
Update: The Daily Cal has more information and quotes from professors.
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Fastest Growing Minor at Cal: Saving the World [NBC Bay Area]
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