EDC 115 Exploring Education

3 Credit(s) CS

Students will explore contemporary issues in education and reflect on their own experience as learners through a range of media and multiple lenses—historical, philosophical, sociological, political, and personal. We will explore the purposes of learning and education, careers in education aligned with those purposes, and pathways available within the School of Education that prepare students to be educators of many kinds. We will consider what it means to “learn” something, what makes an “educated” person, and how learning and education contribute to the functioning (or dysfunction) of a society. We will explore persistent problems of access and equity and consider the social and educational climate that support or limit the work of educators. Three lecture hours per week