Power and Identity in STEM

3 credits · Peabody College - Professional

This course is open to all graduate students at the master's and doctoral levels of study. It explores ways that identity, ideologies, and disciplinary practices, institutional structures and norms, and power relations function in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Students will engage in such inquiry across contexts, including K-12 schools and classrooms, higher education, and community and student support programs. By the end of the course, students will be able to articulate how STEM teaching, learning, and support contexts shaped by interlocking systems of power create (in)equitable opportunities of academic success and positive identity development for various student populations. Our inquiry throughout the course will attend to lived experiences of educational inequities at ideological, institutional, and relational levels, inclusive of variation across STEM domains. [3]