EDS 3150Crit Lens for Tchers

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Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): ARTE 3601 or EDS 3130 or MUS 3351 or PETE 3130 with a grade "C-" or above The ethnic studies and social justice framework of this course supports teacher candidates’ ability to critically analyze systems that shape classroom interactions, curricula, and schooling. It addresses racial, ethnic, and linguistic inequities and hierarchies of power as primary lenses for understanding and analyzing the socially constructed concepts related to human identity and the relationship of these social constructs to systems of formal education in the United States. Teacher candidates will examine their own location in larger systems so they may better serve their students, especially those from historically marginalized communities. This course requires previous completion of or concurrent enrollment in a field experience: EDS 3140, EDS 3240, or MUS 3351. (Multicultural/ESSJ and General Studies Social & Behavioral Sciences l)