A student just accused me of being "Culturally insensitive"

[Buckeye_Democrat]

169. Most of my old college classes didn't care either, but...

... a few of them (like science labs) understandably had attendance as part of the grade.

I'm not sure what Art History class entails, but MAYBE there's some old art that's displayed and it needs to be memorized? Or the students are expected to draw and paint sometimes?

One of my general education history classes was taught by a NEW professor who'd graduated from Harvard, with a recent PhD in art history. I withdrew from that class within a week! (Later taking it again from another professor.) The young professor told us that he wasn't going to cover the textbook at all. We were adults now, so we could do that on our own. Instead, he ONLY showed images of old art during the class and said that we were also going to be tested on memorizing the names and various details of the artwork in addition to the text from the thick history textbook (which was used for all three history classes required for the general education portion of our degrees).

So he apparently wasn't ready to break free from his art history obsession at that time, and I wasn't going to put up with the extra work for a general education class when my math and physics coursework was already a heavy workload for me.

In my case, I felt like the new professor was "breaking the contract" because memorizing old artwork was NOT part of that course description at all.