EDUC 183 - Centering Justice: A Speaker Series

Semester Offered: Spring
0.5 unit(s)

Vassar College’s national reputation draws renowned scholars to its campus annually. This semester, is no exception. With speakers like Jerusha Lamptee, Carlos Decena, Wilma King, Aisha Simmons, Claire Jean Kim and Jared Sexton coming to campus after spring break, there is a pedagogical and curricular opportunity available for students to reflect critically across speakers about how identity intersects with policy, coalition building, resistance movements and liberation. These speakers together present students with a unique curriculum; I propose to provide a framework, pedagogy, space and time for students to draw connections across speakers, across readings and across each their peers’ own experiences as they relate to the speakers. Colette Cann.

The course will be structured as follows:

Mondays: Students enrolled in the course will attend the selected lecture

Tuesdays: Students will receive a reading or set of readings along with a series of questions related to the speaker. Students are responsible for reading and responding to the questions.

Thursdays: Students will meet on alternating weeks with their assigned discussion group and with the professor to reflect on the lecture, readings and questions.

Second six-week course.

One 2-hour period plus one 50-minute period.