Focuses on urban schooling through critical readings, fieldwork, group projects, and extensive writing. Students explore how socialization, marginalization, and assimilation impede or support academic success, how class intersects with "race", and how "culture" affects one's orientation to education.
NOTE: This course satisfies the American History and Institutions requirement.
Enrollment Requirements
Enrollment restricted to education or STEM minors, physics education majors, or students with math education concentration or Earth sciences science education concentration, or biology B.A. bioeducation, or by permission of instructor.
Class Notes
All Students - restrictions lifted in summer.
Students will be asked to participate in online discussion forums, peer collaboration, self-reflection, social and cultural analysis, and to complete readings and questions that accompany the online textual, audio, video, and lecture resources as well as prepare brief writing submissions throughout the five weeks.