EDPL 703 - Foundations of Black Education

3 hours.
3 Credits

This course will focus on the historical, social, political, and economic factors that form the foundations of Black education in American society. This is an interdisciplinary course, blending history, sociology, psychology, economics, urban planning, and environmental studies. The course will help doctoral students clarify the role and purpose of Black education and how it intersects with the past and present, across many places and spaces in society. This course is framed by an autobiographical approach at two levels: 1) students will retrace their own educational journey through educational systems and 2) important Founding Black educators serve as focal points, marking historical and ideological moments on a timeline. Topics covered will include integration and mass resistance, segrenomics, urban renewal, school reform, and memory laws.

Offered (AS NEEDED)