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EDUC 164Urban Education

5 creditsUndergraduateStudent Option

Focuses on urban schooling through critical readings, fieldwork, group projects, and extensive writing. Students explore how socialization, marginalization, and assimilation impede or support academic success, how class intersects with race, and how culture affects one's orientation to education. Note: This course satisfies the American History and Institutions requirement.

Prerequisites

Enrollment is restricted to junior and senior education, democracy and justice majors; science education majors; critical race and ethnic studies majors; and STEM, EDUC and Black studies minors, or by permission of instructor.

  • All students can enroll - restriction review is waived in summer.

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When it runs

Winter 2027Open Winter 2027

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
Tue Thu 1:30pm–3:05pm
Porter Acad 144A. LashawOpen 0/60

Summer 2026Open Summer 2026

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
TBA
OnlineR. JibrinOpen 103/240

Winter 2026Open Winter 2026

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
Mon Wed Fri 2:40pm–3:45pm
OnlineA. LashawOpen 42/45

Who teaches it

InstructorRatingDifficultyWould take againReviews
Amanda Lashaw3.2 / 53.6 / 553%17
Rekia Jibrin1.5 / 53.8 / 50%4

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