University of Central Arkansas (CorruptED)

The University of Central Arkansas’ College of Education course EDUC 3322 – Diverse Learners in Inclusive Settings includes topics such as heterosexism, tenets of queer theory, and white privilege. Texts include Bell Hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom.

It states that the purpose of the course is to “equip future educators with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to create learning environments to support all learners with a consideration for student demographic categories including race, ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status, LGBTQ, ability, and students experiencing trauma.”

The course syllabus includes a section titled “Open Statement” which states that “making comments that are racist, sexist, classist, etc. are not opinions” and that “rejecting the existence of something like white privilege is not an opinion.” It continues: “Concepts like privilege and microaggressions are not political. They are evidence-based events that we have studied deeply in the field and know exist and impact the lived experiences of students and teachers daily.”

The outline of the course includes topics such as “race,” “LGBTQ+,” and “implicit bias.”

Listed course readings include Bell Hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom and “White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism” and “Are we not fatigued? Queer battle fatigue at the intersection of heteronormative culture.”