Critical Perspectives on Race in Higher Education

Catalog description

This course introduces and engages with a range of understandings of race and racialization in post-secondary education settings, scholarship, and processes, with a focus on the United States as the geographic context. Thus, students review theories of racial formation, decolonization, and critical race theory in education. Throughout, notable studies from higher education scholarship are presented as weekly readings, and in some cases, these span into the disciplines of sociology and law. This course is not meant to be a thorough encapsulation of the scholarship on race in post-secondary education, but rather, aims to familiarize students with core concepts in contemporary usage and present thresholds for further independent inquiry. Post-secondary education leaders must also be conversant with these theories and engage in deep self- and system-reflection.