Foundatns/Diversity Amer Educ

Catalog description

This course is a combination of lecture/seminar/small group practicum. After about six weeks of classwork directed toward the historical and foundational aspects of American education, students are placed in local schools that are classified as highly diverse with respect to both ethnicity and economic circumstances (high levels of free and reduced lunch). The course will remain classified as a writing-intensive course, and all of the current writing assignments will be retained; these writing assignments are related to both the foundational and historical components of schooling as well as the various multicultural components that will help students become more culturally competent.