Critical Studies of Education—BA
Minimum 36 semester course credits and general BA requirements
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Core Requirement (14 credits) | ||
| EDUC 036/136 | Introduction to Development and Learning in Young Children | 3 |
| EDUC 101 | Social Foundations of Education | 3 |
| EDUC 120 | Urban Education | 3-4 |
| EDUC 025/125 | Inquiry and Action in Urban Contexts | 3-4 |
Senior Capstone Inquiry Requirement 4-8 credits
All students will complete a capstone inquiry project during their senior year. They will utilize research skills to synthesize their understandings from their concentrations and community-based work in order to grapple with an educational dilemma. Capstone projects will include an action component. These projects will aid students as they transition to the next phases in their lives, studies, and/or careers. Capstone course(s) will be selected based on the nature of the concentration and can be taken from other departments across the college. One recommendation is EDU 194A/B Senior Seminar: Child Development.
Concentrations
Students will work in consultation with their advisors to develop an interdisciplinary concentration that is based on their academic, personal, and professional goals. Concentrations and course trajectories should be finalized in consultation with the advisor by the end of sophomore year and no later than fall junior year. A suggested trajectory for thinking about the sequencing of courses is outlined below.
First Year: Introduction to education and theoretical foundations
Sophomore: Building on theoretical frameworks from year one, adding content and methodology
Junior: Focus on translating content knowledge into direct work with communities
Senior: Students will select courses with their advisor to guide their capstone/thesis project
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Sample List of Concentration Courses | 14 | |
| Additional Courses and courses not listed can be considered upon advisor's approval. | ||
| EDUC 103 | Public Policy: Children, Youth, and Family Issues | 3 |
| EDUC 114 | Family Systems and Cultural Diversity: Connections with Schools, Communities, and Hospital Setting | 3 |
| EDUC 134 | Research Methodology for Observing Children | 2-4 |
| EDUC 137 | Language Development: Literacy, Communication, and Multilingualism | 3 |
| EDUC 138 | Social, Emotional, and Moral Development and Learning | 3 |
| EDUC 180D | On Being "Woke": Spiritual and Political Formation in the Movement towards Liberatory Education | 3 |
| EDUC 227 | Issues of Race and Ethnicity in Education | 4 |
| EDUC 246 | Working with Schools, Families and the Community | 2-4 |
| EDUC 240/440 | Hip Hop Pedagogy | 4 |
| EDUC 410 | Communities, Schools, and Critical Social Theory | 4 |
| ENG 114 | U.S. Literature and Social Change | 3 |
| ENG 117 | 20th Century African-American Literature | 3 |
| ENG 152 | Poets of Color of the 20th and 21st Centuries | 3-4 |
| ENG 272 | Theories and Strategies of Teaching Writing | 4 |
| ETHS 039 | Latinx & Latin American Social Movements | 3 |
| ETHS 051 | Introduction to Ethnic Studies | 3 |
| ETHS 055 | Law, Resistance and Identity: American Indian History from 1900 | 3 |
| ETHS 090 | Comparative Ethnic Literature and Cultural Production | 4 |
| ETHS 111 | Leadership for Social Change | 4 |
| ETHS 112 | Race, Gender, and the Environment | 3 |
| ETHS 126 | Theories of Race and Ethnicity | 4 |
| ETHS 139 | Asian/Pacific American Women Writers | 3 |
| ETHS 150 | Black Feminist Theory | 3 |
| ETHS 157 | Race, Gender, and the Criminal Justice System | 3 |
| ETHS 159 | Intro to Chicanx & Latinx Studies | 3 |
| ETHS 165 | Politics of Chicanx and Latinx Communities | 3 |
| ETHS 180A | “All Power to the People!”: The Politics and Pedagogy of Community-based Education in the Bay | 3 |
| ETHS 180D | The Black Radical Tradition: From Black Radical Abolitionism to Black Feminism | 3 |
| ETHS 180K | Girls of Color, Trauma, and Community Accountabilities | 3 |
| HIST 031 | American History I | 3 |
| HIST 115 | Sex, Body, and Gender in Early European Societies | 3 |
| HIST 158 | Growing Up in America | 3 |
| HIST 180A | Civil Rights Today | 2 |
| MATH 047 | Calculus I | 3 |
| MATH 102 | Probability and Statistics | 4 |
| NASC 180A | Community Engaged Teaching and Learning in Science, Technology and Mathematics | 2 |
| PPOL 015 | Introduction to Policy: Identifying and Solving Public Problems | 3 |
| PPOL 093 | Law and Society | 3 |
| PPOL 114 | Social Policy Analysis | 3 |
| PPOL 152 | American Constitutional Law: Fundamental Freedoms | 3-4 |
| PPOL 180F | Organizing for Political Change | 2 |
| PSYC 040 | Life-Span Developmental Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 049 | Fundamentals of Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 070 | Psychology and Language | 3 |
| PSYC 080 | Adolescence | 3 |
| PSYC 155 | Social Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 180C | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Psychology | 3 |
| SOC 055 | Introduction to Sociology | 3 |
| SOC 101 | Sociology of Families | 3-4 |
| SOC 129 | Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S. | 3 |
| SOC 156 | Sociology of Oakland | 3 |
| SOC 194 | Media & Society | 3 |
| WGSS 071 | Introduction to Women's Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 072 | Introduction to Queer Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 105 | Sexuality and the City | 3 |
| WGSS 106 | Postcolonial Feminist Theory and Literature | 3-4 |
| WGSS 115 | African and Caribbean Literatures | 3-4 |