Reimagining Humanities Education: Curriculum Development for Secondary Schools

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This advanced seminar links curriculum theory with the practical skills of curriculum design. While much curriculum theory focuses around the canonical curriculum, the course will strive to uncover silences to expose the ways that the lived and experiential curriculum, both historically and contemporaneously, has the potential to provide counter narrative and to bring about a dialogue of diverse perspectives. We will analyze ways that curriculum is informed by and dependent upon conceptions of race, ethnicity, language and nation. Students will learn about the Understanding by Design framework and use it for their own curriculum development projects that bring together literary fiction and primary sources. Archival research experiences, both online at the Library of Congress and in person at the John Hay Library at Brown, inform our understanding of the possibilities of uncovering stories that matter.