University of Colorado Boulder (CorruptED)

The University of Colorado Boulder College of Education courses feature topics such as critical pedagogy, teacher activism, tenets of queer theory, and white privilege. Course texts include reading from Paulo Freire and bell hooks.

COURSES

EDUC 3013: School and Safety

The course EDUC 3013: School and Safety includes content such as critical pedagogy, decolonization, teacher activism, and white privilege. Course texts include readings from Paulo Freire, bell hooks, and Peggy McIntosh’s White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.

The course will “critically examine the role of education in a diverse and pluralistic democracy” and “Students will “examine the relationship between democracy and education, including how educational institutions and practices might be structured democratically.” The course will also help students “develop an awareness of race, ethnicity, class, gender and other lines of difference, and explore how schooling might be structured in ways that build equity and justice.”

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ETHNIC STUDIES

ETHN 3314: Violence Against Women and Girls

The course ETHN 3314: Violence Against Women and Girls includes topics such as abolition, activism, privilege, power, and tenets of queer theory. Course texts include bell hooks.

The course description states that it will “guide students through critically considering the context of, responses to, and resistance from violence against women and girls as a cultural and individual phenomenon” and that in the class “racism, sexism, heteronormativity, transphobia, classism, nativism, privilege, as well as other forms and consequences of oppression are understood as real and will be discussed as such throughout the course.”