• Fall 2013 : African American Studies C133A Race, Identity, and Culture in Urban Schools

    • TuTh 11-1230P
    • SUAD-BAKARI, N
    • 126 Barrows
    • 3

    (3) Three hours of seminar/discussion perweek. This course will focus on understanding urban schools as a part of a broader system of social stratification and the process by which students in urban schools come to a sense of themselves as students, as members of cultural and racial groups, and as young people in America. Topics include racial identity;race/ethnicity in schools; urban neighborhood cong-texts; and schooling in the juvenile justice system. Students will also integrate course readings with their own first-hand experience working in one of several off-campus sites. This course has a mandatory community engagement component for which students will earn 1 unit of field study (197) credit. Also listed as Education C181.