Hello all! Here’s a helpful (we think) list of professional and graduate courses offered across Vanderbilt this fall that deal with issues of diversity and inclusion. Know of any others? Email Richard at richard.s.blissett@vanderbilt.edu.
EDUC-7500 : Critical Race Theory: Race and Racism in Education
Critical Race Theory (CRT) was originally conceptualized in legal scholarship as discourse to identify racism as endemic to daily life in the United States. The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the original tenants of CRT in legal scholarship and education as a means to interpret/interrogate public education. Incorporating legal, historical, policy analysis and sociological approaches, the attempt of this class is to develop analysis and praxis through CRT in the examination of educational concerns. This class seeks to place CRT in the realm of education for social justice and to give participants the opportunity to engage CRT as an introductory measure towards transformative education. In short, the aim is to use CRT as an analytical framework that provides race-based epistemological, methodological, and pedagogical approaches to the study of everyday inequalities in education. [3] Dr. Ebony McGee
EDUC-6610-01 : Learning, Diversity, and Urban Studies, Seminar I
[Formerly EDUC 3630] The Learning, Diversity, and Urban Studies Seminar I is designed to serve as a foundation for the master’s program, Learning, Diversity, and Urban Studies (LDUS). Students in the LDUS program enroll in a yearlong seminar (Seminar I and II) that has been designed to build programmatic synergy and coherence among the central strands of the program (learning, diversity, and urban studies). To build programmatic coherence, students in the LDUS Seminar I will address some of the pertinent matters regarding in-school and out-of school teaching and learning. Essential topics of the course include race and equity in urban and diverse contexts, poverty, social class and stratification, teacher and student identity development, teachers and teaching in urban contexts, learning in urban contexts, curriculum development, and classroom management. [3]
HOD-8100-01 : Theories of Inequality, Diversity, and Social Justice
[Formerly HOD 3650] This course is designed to acquaint incoming Community Research in Action (CRA) students with the core theories and theoretical perspectives germane to the study of inequality broadly defined. The course includes readings that critically address structural, community, and individual levels of analysis. [3]
SPED-7100-01 : Cultural Diversity in American Education
[Formerly SPED 3060] Focuses on cultural diversity and the ways in which it has been defined and treated in the American educational system. An interdisciplinary perspective informs the course, with particular attention to history, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and educational literatures. FALL. [3]
DIV-6748-01 : History of Religion in the American South: Religion, Race, and Religion
This seminar examines the religious history of the American South from colonization to the present with an emphasis on racial, regional, and gendered aspects of the history. Readings will will focus on the interpretation of religion in the South by diverse contemporary historians. Topics include: slave religion, “lost cause” religion, Jewish life in the South, the freedom movement, gospel and blues music, megachurches and the prosperity gospel. [3] Mr. Hudnut-Beumler
DIV-6772-01 : Race, Religion, and Protest Music
[Formerly DIV 2866] This course examines how music and other related forms of art emerge from a particular social location in order to: help define pressing social issues; galvanize mass social movements; and function as symbols of protest. Using several methodological and theoretical approaches, the course will explore a wide variety of musical genres such as the spirituals, the blues, gospel, jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, folk music, soul music, punk rock, reggae, Afrobeat, and hip hop in order to determine how racial identity and religious themes have articulated themselves within protest music. Various historical and contemporary examples derived from cross-cultural perspectives will be used to illustrate the impact of race and religion on social protest music. [3] Mr. Floyd-Thomas