INQ-120 | Learning for Liberation

Full Title: Learning for Liberation

Topic Description:

Students will use a social science / education perspective to analyze the American educational system, specifically evaluating how democratic citizenship is facilitated or impaired by students' educational experiences. Reading topics will include social justice, U.S. educational policy, democratic principles, and learning theory. Written and oral assignments will ask students to make connections between the course materials and their own experiences with an emphasis on how they might choose to interact with the educational system in the future.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: December 2010