University of California Santa Cruz (CorruptED)

The University of California Santa Cruz’s Education Department courses include topics such as critical theory, critical race theory, decolonization, intersectionality, whiteness, Karl Marx and Marxism, and Paulo Freire.

COURSES

EDUC 135: Gender & Education

The EDUC 135: Gender & Education course features topics such as intersectionality, tenets of queer theory, and transgenderism. Course readings include authors Judith Butler and Bell Hooks.

The course description states that it “introduces students to major issues and concepts in the study of education and gender,” explores “basic concepts such as sex, gender, gender expression and gender identity,” and that “gender identity and sexuality intersect with processes of racialization and colonial domination to produce notions of ‘normativity’ and ‘deviance.'”

The course “proceeds from the assumptions that gender is a construction with material effects and that critical studies contain a precious reservoir for figuring out how power operates so that we can identify and disrupt the ways that some are in positions to benefit from gender constructs while others are purposively disadvantaged.”

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EDUC 181: Race, Class, and Culture in Education

The course EDUC 181: Race, Class, and Culture in Education features topics such as critical race theory, decolonization, intersectionality, and whiteness.

The course description states that it “invites students to analyze and reflect upon the impact of our own educations and institutional oppression on communities in the U.S.”

It also states that “critical thinking is a pedagogy and a process of urgency that results from using theories to examine the real world [sic] struggles of individuals and groups.”

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The following are courses listed in the Education Department’s course catalog. Topics included in the courses are critical pedagogy, critical theory, critical race theory, Karl Marx and Marxism, and Paulo Freire.

EDUC 162: Critical Youth Studies in Education

EDUC 173: Seminar in Critical Pedagogy

EDUC 274: Language and Power in Education

EDUC 292: Ideology and Education

EDUC 295: Critical Perspectives in Education