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Sep 28, 2024
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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HN 382 Social Justice and the Opportunity Gap: An Unfiltered Look at American Education
(4 Credits)
Using HBO’s The Wire Season 4 as a roadmap, this course will explore the current landscape of American Education with an emphasis on examining the structural variables affecting access to quality education. The Wire’s dramatic narrative will be complemented by readings and other media to offer the student an interdisciplinary perspective of our education system and its political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions. Students will also gain valuable insight into the internal and external forces that shape the day to day realities of students and families living in distressed communities. We will examine the notion of the “opportunity gap” through many lenses, including resource allocation, accountability, expectations, equality, and socioeconomic status. Students will actively participate in activities and discussions aimed at deconstructing the variables affecting quality education. Every class will begin and end with the same fundamental question: How does a student with limited resources but unlimited potential achieve the American Dream?
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