Also being cancelled at Yale--a survey course on "ancient Middle East, Egypt, and pre-Renaissance European art." According to the website, new courses will replace those two clases. "Some will engage with the monuments and masterpieces of European and American art, some will introduce other world traditions, and some will be organized thematically offering comparative perspectives."
Classes get cancelled and replaced by other classes constantly. It doesn't seem too weird to me. This National Review article notes what the new classes are. They sound pretty great.
Yale Teaches World Art
Here is the article that those wresting their required panic-word-count takes the pull quote from. It's from the Yale Daily News Blog, not the academics. Yale Blog