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2017-2018 Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOC 260 - Oppression & Education (=EDU 260)


Instructor
Kelly

This course examines various manifestations of oppression in the United States and the questions they raise about inequality and social justice within educational institutions.  We will apply methods of critical analysis drawn from anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and psychology to an examination of social issues in the United States educational system.  We will examine education as a central site of conflict over the gap between the United States’ egalitarian mission and its unequal structure, processes, and outcomes.  Students will rethink contemporary solutions to social diversity in education, develop a social justice framework which emphasizes inequality, and design an institutional ethnographic project as a critical intervention in schools and society.

Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Not open to students with credit for EDU 210 or EDU 250.