F Ethnic Studies for Educators Seminar

Catalog description

54 hours lecture per term. This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Ethnic Studies through the study of education, pedagogy, and curriculum. Emphasizing the unique origins of Ethnic Studies in community struggles, students examine the discipline’s frameworks—including critical race theory, intersectionality, decolonial and anti-colonial studies, Black feminist thought, and Indigenous epistemologies—and their application in K–12 classrooms. Focusing on Native American, African American, Asian American, and Latinx educational histories and struggles, the course interrogates how Eurocentric schooling reproduces inequality while highlighting the ways communities of color have developed strategies of resistance, resilience, and liberation through education. Students will critically analyze current ethnic studies research and education policy, explore culturally sustaining pedagogies, and develop teaching practices that center identity, community knowledge, and collective struggles for educational justice. (Degree Credit) (CSU) (UC) CSU GE, Cal-GETC