ISSUES IN URBAN EDUCATION IN THE U.S

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Civics & Perspectives Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate the relationship between urban education and broader political, social, and economic contexts Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Critically analyze the role that urban educational policy, school structures, and school actors play in causing, ameliorating, or exacerbating educational inequities that impact the lives and learning of students and families of color and students and families living in poverty Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Critically analyze the role that out-of-school factors (e.g. home, community, and broader economic and political contexts and conditions) play in causing, ameliorating, or exacerbating educational inequities Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Read and evaluate scholarly research on urban education and connect it to community-based learning experiences Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Critically reflect on their educational experiences in relation to the course themes Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Effectively communicate what they learned about urban educational issues both orally and in writing, to both academic and non-academic audiences Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Develop their research and communication skills via a final research paper and class presentation Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate the relationship between urban education and broader political, social, and economic contexts Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Critically analyze the role that urban educational policy, school structures, and school actors play in causing, ameliorating, or exacerbating educational inequities that impact the lives and learning of students and families of color and students and families living in poverty Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Critically analyze the role that out-of-school factors (e.g. home, community, and broader economic and political contexts and conditions) play in causing, ameliorating, or exacerbating educational inequities Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Read and evaluate scholarly research on urban education and connect it to community-based learning experiences Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Critically reflect on their educational experiences in relation to the course themes Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Effectively communicate what they learned about urban educational issues both orally and in writing, to both academic and non-academic audiences Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Develop their research and communication skills via a final research paper and class presentation Audience: Graduate