GEOG165 HM - Geographies of Education

Credit(s): 3

Instructor(s): Seitz

Offered: Fall & Spring

Description: To remark that the spaces in which education takes place are changing is to state the obvious. But what histories and geographies of education do today’s transformations inherit, compound, transmit, reproduce, and interrupt? Education has uneven geographies. Schools have varied, contradictory and competing aims and uneven access to power and resources, and so do the people who work at and study within them. Why? Drawing on human geography, anthropology, history, sociology, and American studies, this course investigates how the geographies of education both express and contest the contradictions of capitalism and white supremacy. It offers students an opportunity to critically investigate the social and political functions of formal and informal institutions of education. Further, it invites students to bring this wide-ranging investigation back to the politics, economics, and geographies of the Claremont Colleges, as well as to their own future spaces of education and educational labor.

HSA Course Area(s): Geography
HSA Writing Intensive: Yes