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Ethnic Studies

Ethnic Studies

Ethnic Studies College Preparatory                                                 

GRADE: 9 

CREDITS: 10

COLLEGE RECOMMENDED? Yes

PREREQUISITES: None 

This Ethnic Studies course is an 18 week semester course designed for students to be politically, socially and economically conscious about their personal connections to local and global histories. By studying the histories of race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, and culture, students will cultivate respect and empathy for individuals and solidarity with groups of people locally, nationally, and globally so as to foster active social engagement and community building. Particular focus will be given to the contributions, and struggles of different racial and ethnic groups for liberty, equality, and justice in the United States. Students will investigate and analyze the historical factors of power and privilege and the subsequent impact on historically disadvantaged groups’ ability to navigate and mitigate internal and external structures that influence their human experience. Students will apply in-depth analysis to contemporary issues and collectively pose creative, self-affirming solutions in a variety of ways to promote agency through grassroots community advocacy and civic engagement.  This course is intended to help build inter-ethnic understanding and socio-cultural bridges in an increasingly more multicultural and multiethnic nation, which is imperative to creating a just society.

 

Advancing Ethnic Studies

GRADE: 10/11        CREDITS: 10 (Elective)

PREREQUISITES: Ethnic Studies College Preparatory

Advancing Ethnic Studies is an extension of our introductory course, Introduction to Ethnic Studies. It is designed for students to be politically, socially and economically conscious about their personal connections to local and global histories. Students will utilize the tenets of ethnic studies to examine the contributions, and struggles of different historically marginalized groups for liberty, equality, and justice in the United States. Students will investigate and analyze the historical factors of power and privilege and the subsequent impact on historically marginalized groups’ ability to navigate and mitigate internal and external structures that influence their human experience. Students will apply in-depth analysis to contemporary community issues and collectively pose creative, self-affirming solutions in a variety of ways to promote agency through grassroots community advocacy and civic engagement.