University of Massachusetts, Amherst (CorruptED)

The University of Massachusetts, Amherst College of Education courses feature topics such as critical theory, oppression, power, tenets of queer theory, white privilege, and whiteness. Course readings include bell hooks.

COURSES

EDUC 202: Social Issues/Intergroup Dialogue

The course EDUC 202: Social Issues/Intergroup Dialogue includes content such as intersectionality, oppression, privilege, tenets of queer theory, white privilege, and whiteness. Course texts include readings from bell hooks.

The course description states that students will “actively participate in semi-structured, face-to-face meetings with other students from other social identity groups,” “will learn from each other’s perspectives, read and discuss relevant reading material, and explore your own and other groups’ experiences in various social and institutional contexts,” and “explore ways of taking action to create change and bridge differences at the interpersonal and social/community levels.”

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EDUC 692: Foundations and Theories of Learning

The course EDUC 692: Foundations and Theories of Learning includes content such as critical theory, power, and privilege.

The course description states that it is a “survey course of the major theories of human learning and development as they have been created over the last 125 years from three disciplinary perspectives, the philosophical (Dewey’s pragmatism, Piaget’s structuralism), the psychological (Bruner’s constructivism, Vygotsky’s socio-cultural) and the anthropological (Lave & Wenger’s situated learning theory and González, Moll, & Amanti’s funds of knowledge theory),” and “will also consider learning and development from a critical lens (Esmonde, Bang).”