| Approved Site(s): | |
| Approved course for Hoover High School. Other schools may not offer this course without prior approval from the Interdivisional Curriculum Committee. | |
| Grade Range: | |
| 10–12 | |
| Recommended Preparation: | |
| English 1,2 | |
| Course duration: | |
| Two semesters | |
| Subject area in which graduation credit will be given: | |
| Practical Arts | |
| UC subject area satisfied: | |
| g - College Preparatory Elective | |
| Notes: | |
| This course meets the Ethnic Studies graduation requirement. | |
| Course Description: | |
Through the interdisciplinary study of literature, history, sociology, and critical theory, students will learn to critically analyze multiple texts in order to reflect on personal and collective identity for community impact. With literary texts, historical case-studies, work-based learning opportunities, and theoretical frameworks, students will closely examine their construction of identity alongside the construction of institutions and develop the knowledge and skills to address the inequities in their schools and communities. Students will have scaffolded opportunities to plan, implement, and evaluate in their own praxis. In this course students will be able to: (1) Discuss their identities, including race, gender, culture, sexual orientation, and class; (2) Describe the dynamics among individual, interpersonal, and institutional oppression and transformative resistance; (3) Assess, research and analyze a need in their school community, and implement community action projects in response to root causes; (4) Develop and practice core skills of critical thinking, communication, collaboration and decision-making through multiple authentic contexts. | |
| State Course Code(s): | |
| 7531 - Advanced Education (Capstone) | |
| Basic Texts and Teaching Guides: | |
| Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 1st. ed., Back Bay Books Loeb, The Impossible Will Take a Little While, 1st. ed., Basic Books | |