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byTom Ciccotta<\/a>20 Oct 20170<\/a><\/p>\n

Students at the prestigious Cambridge University have been given \u201ctrigger warnings\u201d ahead of a Shakespeare reading assignment because the assigned play involves depictions of sexual violence.<\/h2>\n

Undergraduate students at Cambridge were provided<\/a> a document this semester that warned that a lecture on Shakespeare\u2019s Titus Andronicus<\/em> and The Comedy of Errors<\/em> could be potentially upsetting because the lecture would cover topics such as sexual and non-sexual violence.<\/p>\n

Gill Evans, emeritus professor of medieval theology and intellectual history at Cambridge, criticized the decisions to forewarn students but conceded that the document was likely produced due to \u201ca genuine wish not to risk upsetting students.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInterfering with academic courses for non-academic reasons is so important, and it ought to be approved by Regent House,\u201d she added. \u201cObviously one would not want to be heartless. But you\u2019ve got to learn to be a bit resilient.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other faculty members were less reserved in their criticisms of the policy. \u201cIf a student of English Literature doesn\u2019t know that \u2018Titus Andronicus\u2019 contains scenes of violence they shouldn\u2019t be on the course,\u201d Dr. David Crilly, who serves as the artistic director of the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival, argued. \u201cThis degree of sensitivity will inevitably curtail academic freedom. If the academic staff are concerned they might say something students find uncomfortable they will avoid doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Telegraph<\/em> noted in their report that law lecturers at the University of Oxford were also allegedly asked to provide trigger warnings before entering into discussions on cases that involve violence or death. Students were also permitted to leave the classroom if they personally found the content to be \u201cdistressing.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Cambridge University spokesman said in a statement that the decision to provide trigger warnings to the students is not reflective of any specific university policy: \u201cSome lecturers indicate that some sensitive material will be covered in a lecture by informing the English Faculty Admin staff who prepare the Faculty\u2019s \u2018Notes on Lectures\u2019 which are distributed to English students.<\/p>\n

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