University of North Carolina (CorruptED)

The University of North Carolina’s college of education courses include topics and content such as critical race theory, intersectionality, tenets of queer theory, white privilege, whiteness, and teacher activism.

COURSES

EDUC 533: Social Justice in Education

The course titled EDUC 533: Social Justice in Education focuses on “social justice” including critical race theory, power, white privilege, whiteness and how to “engage socially just teaching.”

The course overview states that it will examine the “role of social justice in education” and includes exploring “social justice both theoretically and practically for future teachers and concerned citizens.”

Course topics include “critical pedagogy,” “critical race theory,” “intersectionality,” “power,” “privilege,” tenets of queer theory, “white privilege” and “whiteness,” and readings such as White like me: Reflections on race from a privileged son by Tim Wise.

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The following course descriptions are pulled from the College of Education’s course catalog

EDUC 510: Latinx Experience in Education

The course EDUC 510: Latinx Experience in Education uses critical race theory to “examine the social-historical, cultural, and political contexts that shape the educational experiences of Mexican Americans/Chicanxs and the broader Latinx community.”

EDUC 512: Critical Examination of Racism and Education: African American Case Example

The course EDUC 512: Critical Examination of Racism and Education: African American Case Example “examines previous eras in American education from a critical race perspective” and will critique “dominant or majoritarian narratives (widely adopted accounts often taught as part of an institutions curriculum) and counter narratives in regards to racism with the education of Blacks in America serving as an example.”

EDUC 573: Reading the World: Paulo Freire, Local History, and Public Pedagogy

The course EDUC 573: Reading the World: Paulo Freire, Local History, and Public Pedagogy states that it is a “thought experiment examining current and historical controversies in the areas within which we live” by “using the lens of Public Pedagogy defined as pedagogy in which all humans are immersed in which is not without politics and message.”

EDUC 913: Language, Identity, and Power

The course EDUC 913: Language, Identity, and Power states that “language is involved in the construction of social identity and power structures” and that students will “examine how individuals construct their identities and language interacts with other social groupings (class, ethnicity, and gender) and examines how language creates and maintains power for certain groups.”

EDUC 947: Diversity in Teacher Education

The course EDUC 947: Diversity in Teacher Education states that it will “focus on research in teacher education that addresses diversity issues, a particular focus on sociocultural and sociopolitical approaches” and it will emphasize the “relationship between theory and practice by focusing on the teacher as an agent of change.”

EDUC 972: Critical Race Theory: History, Reseach, and Practice

The course EDUC 972: Critical Race Theory: History, Reseach, and Practice states that it will “explore the historical development of Critical Race Theory (CRT) from its origins in Critical Legal Studies through the most recent frameworks established in education, including intersections with LatCrit Theory, AsianCrit, QueerCrit, TribalCrit, and Critical Race Feminism.”