Education Summer Courses
EDUC 135
Session 2
Addresses the changing but continuing patterns of unequal expectations, opportunities, and treatment throughout the educational system for all students, female and male, who do not match a standard model of gender performance. Enrollment is 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.All students - restrictions waived in summer.
Proposed Instructor: Andrea Vazquez
EDUC 140
Session 2
Explores the intersection between language, diversity, and education to examine the education of youth who have been historically underserved by schools. Topics include dialect and register variation; language policy; and sociocultural perspectives on learning/teaching of language. Enrollment is 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. (General Education Code(s): ER.)All students - restrictions waived in summer.
Proposed Instructor: Jolene Gregory
EDUC 164
Session 1
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. 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. Satisfies American History and Institutions Requirement.All students - restrictions waived in summer.
Proposed Instructor: Ethan Chang
EDUC 181
Session 1
Examines the schooling experience and educational attainment of racial/ethnic minority students in the U.S. Focuses primarily on domestic minorities. Addresses issues of variability between and within minority groups and the role of cultural, structural, and psychological factors in the educational attainment of these students. Enrollment is 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. (General Education Code(s): ER.)All students - restrictions waived in summer.
Proposed Instructor: Nora Lang
Gender And Education (5 credits)
Language, Diversity, And Learning (5 credits)
Urban Education (5 credits)
Race, Class, and Culture in Education (5 credits)
