Education 191EDUC11 - FYS-Social Class Is In Session

Should college be free? How should institutions spend money? Who benefits when an individual earns a degree? Your answers to these questions likely depend on your financial background, knowledge, and connections. In this course, we will ask critical questions to examine how social class impacts the ways that postsecondary institutions operate, serve students, and interact with larger cultural values. This course uses a diverse assortment of course materials including news articles, social media, journal articles, book chapters, audio podcasts, and videos as tools to support discussion of key ideas.

Open to First-Year students only.