For further information please contact the program chair. Early consultation with program faculty is essential. A focus on understanding the experiences of contemporary children and adolescents, using case materials, literature, film, and autobiographical reflection to consider gender, racial, class, and cultural differences, and the ways in which theories and approaches from various disciplines help interpret the phenomena of adolescence. Four credit hours. A critical exploration of the theory and practice of teaching.
Students serve as assistant teachers in an elementary or middle school.
Responsibilities include tutoring, working with individual students, and preparing and presenting lession plans to the whole class. Four credit hours. An introduction to the critical tradition in education, particularly to the work of revolutionary multiculturalists and critical theorists. Critical educators have worked to maintain the link between the struggle for critical knowledge and the struggle for democracy. The course provides a forum for students to analyze these basic assumptions and continue the struggle for transformative knowledge and a critical democracy.