The Ohio State University (CorruptED)

The Ohio State University College of Education & Human Ecology courses include topics such as critical theory, critical race theory, oppression, privilege, whiteness, white privilege, and readings such as Robin DiAngelo and Paulo Freire.

COURSES

EDUTL 5005: Equity, Diversity, and Justice in Education

The course EDUTL 5005: Equity, Diversity, and Justice in Education features critical theory, critical race theory, oppression, forms of privilege including ability, age, Christian, cisgender, heterosexual, male, etc., whiteness, and includes readings such as Sensoy and DiAngelo’s Is everyone really equal? An introduction to key concepts in social justice education and The 1619 Project.

It is a required course for the Masters of Education in Early Childhood (Grades PK-5) program.

The course description states it will focus on “issues of diversity, equity, justice, teacher agency, and interdisciplinary approach to curriculum and pedagogy” and emphasizes the “role teachers in affirming students’ identities and lived experiences and its influences on approaches to teaching and learning in diverse educational settings.”

ESPHE 3410: Philosophy of Education

The ESPHE 3410: Philosophy of Education course includes topics such as critical pedagogy, white privilege, and reading Paulo Freire.

The course description states that students will “engage with questions in the philosophy of education that are tied to broader philosophical principles like justice, equality, ethics, and democracy.”

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ETHNIC STUDIES

Comparative Studies 2321: Introduction to Asian American Studies

The course Comparative Studies 2321: Introduction to Asian American Studies includes topics such as Blackness, colonialism, tenets of queer theory, and whiteness.

The course description states that it “provides an introduction to Asian American Studies by examining some of the main themes, historical events, and critical frameworks that the field has focused on and developed since it emerged in the late 1960s” and “focuses significant attention on how Asian Americans have been racialized in the United States and through U.S. imperialism abroad; how ‘ethnicity’ has come to imply ‘national origin’ within the field in order to mark the diversity of Asian Americans; and how gender (along with sexuality and class) has been integral to constituting Asian American racial and ethnic differences.”

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Ethnic Studies 3572: Central American Migrants in the United States

The course Ethnic Studies 3572: Central American Migrants in the United States includes topics such as intersectionality and tenets of queer theory.

The course description states that the class “surveys the history and culture of Central Americans in the United States” using “an interdisciplinary approach that spans the humanities and social sciences, students will analyze the history of mass exodus and migration from Central America, settlement and formation of diaspora communities in major urban metropolises, and community work and organizing of Central Americans in key cities throughout the United States.”