|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
(First-year seminar; writing-intensive course) What is whiteness--an identity, an ideology, a racialized social system How is it related to racism This course will examine the historical, social, psychological, and legal frameworks of whiteness, how whiteness is enacted in everyday practice, and how it influences the lives of whites and people of color. Some of the concepts we will explore include privilege, dominance, the "new" racism, colorblindness,cultural capital, racial identity, racial stratification, power, and antiracism. Meets multicultural requirement; does not meet a distribution requirement S. Lawrence Prereq. fy; 4 credits
-
4.00 Credits
Using an interdisciplinary framework, this course will examine the social, historical, legal, philosophical, economic, and political foundations of education in the United States. It is designed to engage students in an examination of the enduring questions, debates, and tensions that revolve around the institution of schooling in the U.S. Topics covered will include an examination of political ideologies that have informed past and current education reform movements; an historical perspective on access to education; and an analysis of trends in funding of public education; among others. Meets Social Sciences III-A requirement L. Reilly Carlisle 4 credits
-
3.00 Credits
Meets Social Sciences III-A requirement The department Prereq. soph, jr, sr or permission of instructor; 4 credits
-
4.00 Credits
Is Mount Holyoke a school or a business Is the institution one sees today what Mary Lyon had in mind in 1837 This course will look at the development of U.S. higher education from upstart colonial colleges into a multi-billion dollar industry. We will look closely at the tension between education mission and market forces, and how the interaction between academe and society has played out from the founding of the republic through women's rights, the world wars, and 60s counterculture. We will touch on a range of contemporary topics such as access and affirmative action, standardized testing, athletics, and e-learning. Mount Holyoke will serve as a recurring case study. Meets Social Sciences III-A requirement J. Lytle 4 credits
-
2.00 Credits
This two-credit independent study course is the culminating experience of the educational studies minor which requires analysis and synthesis of key ideas that emerged during focused study in the minor. Students will work with a faculty advisor of the Educational Studies Program Committee as they plan, write and present a capstone paper. Does not meet a distribution requirement The department Prereq. Educational Studies 205, 215, or 220 and permission of instructor; 1 meeting (1 hour) to be arranged; 2 credits
-
3.00 Credits
(Community-Based Learning course; Same as Sociology/Anthropology 301) This course will consist of seven meetings during spring semester, designed to allow for participants to build their knowledge of the educational system of South Africa, followed by a three week full-time placement in either a South African public school or the Center for the Study of AIDS. Meets multicultural requirement; does not meet a distribution requirement L. Reilly Carlisle, M. McKeever Prereq. soph, jr. For students pursuing teacher licensure this course may be taken in lieu of Education 320j to fulfill one of the requirements of the education minor for teacher licensure; Permission of instructor required.?is course requires students to complete three weeks of experiential learning in August 2008 in South Africa.; 4 credits
-
3.00 Credits
The central elements of this course include reading qualitative research, writing qualitative research, and conducting qualitative research. These three acts of inquiry explore how race matters in education and provide a deeper understanding of the racial realities of everyday life in schools. Readings and discussions highlight the paradigms, methodological approaches, and uses of qualitative research. Class demonstrations and activities focus on developing research skills. The independently designed research study provides further exploration of the complexities involved in researching racial matters. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Social Sciences III-A requirement S. Lawrence Prereq. two courses (one with substantial racerelated content) from Anthropology, African American St., Asian St., CST, English, Gender St., Psych. & Education, or Sociology, and permission of instructor; 4 credits
-
3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the social and political contexts mediating nonnormative gender and sexual expression since the nineteenth century. In our examination of queer epistemological genealogies and methodologies, we will also consider the value of queer theory as a subjectless analysis as opposed to a queer of color critique that calls into question the sedimentation of a white, male, North American queer identity with global pretensions. Meets Humanities I-A requirement I. Day Prereq. soph, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
-
3.00 Credits
This introduction to modern British poetry pays special attention to the emergence, consolidation, and dismantling of modernist poetry and poetics. It will link this literary history with, amongst other things, the loss of faith, the two world wars, and the relationship between monumental aesthetics, utopian poetics, and totalitarian politics. Writers will include Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, H.D., and Auden. Meets Humanities I-A requirement N. Alderman Prereq. soph, or English 200; 4 credits
-
4.00 Credits
This course will focus on well-known English novels of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries while introducing some of the different theoretical arguments regarding the emergence and history of what is called the modern novel. Novelists may include Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen, with supplementary readings in theory and criticism. Meets Humanities I-A requirement J. Pyke Prereq. soph, jr, sr, 4 credits in department beyond English 101, or permission of instructor; meets English department pre-1700 requirement; 4 credits
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Cookies Policy |
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|