SOC 150L - Culture, Power & Education

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
This course focuses on social and cultural diversity composition and issues within today’s public schools. Attention is given to the trends in schools related to population, race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic components, ability, organization and family structure, which are central to most other diversity issues. Lectures, presentations, panels, readings, dialogues, in-class activities, and audio-visual materials will assist the candidate in using critical analytical tools to develop an understanding of the contemporary school, its function and the challenges that are present in the changing landscape of P-12 education. This approach encourages you, as a candidate, to interact personally with the information and perspectives presented in lectures and readings with the goal that new learning would inform your personal and social reality through written assignments and classroom presentations.