| Title: | Civic Literacy & Democracy |
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| Course Section Number: | EDU-250-01 |
| Department: | Education |
| Description: | EDU-250-01=BLS-270-06. This course is designed for students interested in the role of public education in the development of the civic and historic literacy needed for effective multicultural democracy in our diverse and global world. As the founders of the U.S. system of public education knew, hot-button current events can become highly politicized in the absence of deeper knowledge and understanding of the conditions that have led to the present. However, as works such as The 1619 Project, James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, Howard Zinn's The Peoples History of the United States, and others have argued, much of the K-12 history and civics content vital to meaningful engagement with such issues has simply never been taught in U.S. classrooms; it is considered too "messy," or disruptive. In this class, we consider what kinds of social studies content would be required to meet the needs of responsible democratic citizenship and governance today. We inquire into selected current "messy" topics and explore the underlying social and historic forces that have led to the present moment. Topics taught in a given year may vary, but will be be drawn from current and recent events. Recent topics have included #BlackLivesMattter; Indigenous treaty rights including pipeline protests such as the Standing Rock Water Protectors' encampment; removal/repurposing of Confederate monuments; immigrant rights and exclusion policies and practices; educational access and attainment in relation to systemic power; and social /political trends including populist and authoritarian/fascist movements in the present and in history. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 25, 2021 |
| End Date: | December 18, 2021 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/26/2021-12/16/2021 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 02:40PM - 03:55PM, Malcolm X Institute, Room 214
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| Faculty: | Seltzer-Kelly, Deborah |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 10 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 6 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
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