SEED 7500 - Diverse Classrooms in a Pluralistic Society

(3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours 3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed to analyze and understand social forces influencing education; educational traditions as reflections of diverse cultures; the school and cultural change; and social conflict in the United States. Particular attention is given sociological analysis of teaching and learning in America’s secondary school classrooms, with emphasis on processes of differentiation, stratification, socialization, social organization as well as social relationships in the classroom.