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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

EDU 380 - Culturally Relevant Teaching


2018-2019 Catalog Year:

Culturally relevant teaching combines an examination of the cultural and socioeconomic influences on teaching and learning with a commitment to challenging social (and educational )injustice. In this course, candidates make use of common experiences to examine the social/cultural (and political and economic) characteristics of educational settings. Candidates examine social structures of race, class, gender (dis)ability, and sexuality which create dominate and subordinate groups, privileging some and denying opportunity to others.

Note: Candidates identify obvious and subtle individual, institutional , and cultural actions that perpetuate social structures.
Prerequisite: EDU 301.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3