EGS 352 - Ethnic Studies for Educators

5 Credits

This course engages the practical challenges connected with teaching for social change. Drawing on Ethnic Studies praxis that interrogates assumptions about core knowledge, the course encourages students in explorations of curriculum that enhance possibility, particularly as it concerns race, gender, and class. Emphasis is placed on activities that reinforce an applied, collaborative construction of knowledge.

Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS - EDUC or ECE
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Fall Evening
Spring Evening

Designed to Serve This course serves candidates in the Bachelor of Applied Science in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Edcuation.
Active Date 20230331T12:42:16

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
Restricted Elective Yes
BAS

Social Science

Course Outline

Introduction to ethnic studies in education.
Roles of schooling in society.
Implementing social justice discourse in core curriculum.
Self-reflective practices.
Practice activities and peer review.

Student Learning Outcomes
Articulate how race and gender historically function in K-12 educational settings.

Effectively analyze how community resistance to structural inequality plays out in institutional education settings.

Explain how your subjectivity and social position can impact student/teacher dynamics.

Evaluate state learning standards that are incongruent with ethnic studies frameworks. .

Develop a K-9 curriculum that integrates ethnic studies with state learning standards.