120 Reading, Writing, and Teaching
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021,
Spring 2022,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2023,
Fall 2024,
Spring 2025121 Writing the College Experience
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2022,
Spring 2023,
Spring 2025135 Justice
Other years: Offered in Spring 2021,
Spring 2022,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2024145 Work
Other years: Offered in Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021,
Fall 2023182 Constructing Childhood: From Page to Screen
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2021
200 Race, Education, and Belonging
Other years: Offered in Fall 2019,
Spring 2023201 The Social Construction of American Society
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2019, Spring 2020, January 2021, January 2022,
Spring 2022203 Youth, Schooling, and Popular Culture
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021,
Fall 2022206 Psychology of Play
Other years: Offered in Spring 2019, Spring 2020,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2024208 Power and Politics in Contemporary China
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2013, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020,
Spring 2022,
Fall 2022,
Fall 2024214 What's So Great About (In)Equality?
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2019,
Spring 2023224 Intergroup Dialogue on Race
Other years: Offered in Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2020,
Fall 2022,
Fall 2024227 Developmental Psychology
Other years: Offered in Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021,
Fall 2022,
Spring 2023,
Spring 2025232 Political Economy of Development
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2015,
Spring 2023240 Rethinking Pocahontas: An Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies
Other years: Offered in Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019,
Spring 2023265 Unequal Childhoods: Race, Class and Gender in the United States
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2016, Spring 2019,
Spring 2023301 Education for Democracy
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2022,
Spring 2023308 Gender, Feminisms, and Education
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2019, Spring 2021,
Spring 2023314 Black Student Power in the United States
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2020, Fall 2021
328 Indigenous Narratives: Creating Children's Stories about Native American History
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2023,
Spring 2025331 Childhood and Adolescence
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2022,
Spring 2023337 Dilemmas of Diversity: The Case of Higher Education
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021,
Fall 2022,
Fall 2024345 Model Minorities: Jewish and Asian Americans
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021,
Fall 2022348 Language Learning and Globalization
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2022352 The Purpose and Politics of Education
(Offered as EDST 352, HIST 352 [US/TC/TR/TS], AMST 352 and SOCI 352) Focusing on the United States, this course introduces students to foundational questions and texts central to Education Studies. We will explore the competing goals and priorities Americans have held for primary, secondary and post-secondary education and ask how and why these visions have influenced—or failed to influence—classrooms, schools, and educational policy. We will pay particular attention to sources of educational stratification; the tensions between the public and private purposes of schooling; and the relationship between schooling and equality.
In the first part of the course, students will reflect on how Americans have imagined the purpose of self-education, literacy, public schooling, and the liberal arts. Among the questions we will consider: What do Americans want from public schools? Does education promote liberation? Has a liberal arts education outlived its usefulness? How has the organization of schools and school systems promoted some educational objectives in lieu of others? In the second section of the course, we will concentrate on the politics of schooling. Here, we will pay particular attention to several issues central to understanding educational inequality and its relationship to American politics, culture, and society: localism; state and federal authority; desegregation; and the complicated relationship between schooling and racial, linguistic, class-based, gender, and ethnic hierarchies. Finally, we will explore how competing ideas about the purpose and politics of education manifest themselves in current policy debates about privatization, charters, testing, and school discipline. Throughout the course, students will reflect on both the limits and possibilities of American schools to challenge and reconfigure the social order.
Limited to 20 students. Fall semester. Visiting Professor Luschen.
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2022,
Spring 2025359 Living with Inequality
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2021
374 Rights
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2024390, 490 Special Topics
Independent reading course.
Other years: Offered in Fall 2022,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2023,
Fall 2024410 Seminar on Epistemic Agency
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2021
415 Bilingualism in the US
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2019, Fall 2021
468 Research Methods in American Culture
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021,
Spring 2022,
Fall 2023,
Spring 2025498, 498D, 499, 499D Senior Honors
Independent work on an extended academic, creative, or pedagogical project on a topic relevant to the field. Thesis progress will be assessed by the department at the end of the first semester as a precondition for entrance to the next semester of thesis work.
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2023,
Spring 2025