The College of Education has new and exciting electives for Spring quarter 2025!
EDLPS 496 C Gatekeepers and Gamechangers: Historical Perspectives on Education and Inequality (5)
M 11:30 - 1:50
Are you curious about how education has been a critical battleground for civil rights historically and what we can learn from the past?
This course includes a survey of education for historically marginalized communities in the U.S. and the struggles of activists to expand the meaning of education and opportunity. Through provocative case studies, students will examine how race, class, gender, and sexuality have shaped – and been shaped by – educational experiences. Highlight topics include:
· The power of literacy in the Black freedom struggle
· The role of education in promoting and resisting colonization
· Hidden histories of LGBTQ+ educators
· Queering the history of education
Flexible Learning Format: Engage through dynamic in-person Monday sessions and convenient asynchronous Wednesday modules
EDUC 300 A From Grassroots to Growth: Co-Creating in Community-Based Organizations (3)
MW 10:00 - 11:20
As co-creators of the class, students will define specific areas of exploration. From an initial grounding in the basics of CBOs, we can explore topics such as building ethical, impactful, and community-driven organizations, identifying local needs to securing funding and navigating power dynamics, the tensions between funding and mission integrity, strategies for avoiding white saviorism, and ways to protect grassroots work in a shifting political climate.
EDUC 300 F Making Thinking Visible: Creating a Culture Where Thinking Can Thrive (3)
T 1:00 - 3:50
This course prepares future teachers to create classrooms where student thinking is valued and drives learning, moving beyond a focus on mere task completion. Students will explore the principles of creating cultures of thinking - developing powerful thinking dispositions and the conditions that nurture them. The course emphasizes practical strategies for cultivating this culture through language, routines, interactions, and opportunities, etc. that deepen student learning, causing us to be students of our students, and students of ourselves.