2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
    Apr 23, 2024  
2017-2018 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]

EDUC 645 - Secondary School in Today’s Society


Credits: Three (3)
Corequisite: EDUC-646

Students will explore the history and current purposes of public secondary schools and the school systems of the United States, focusing upon the diversity and complexity of American society. The place of the schools in the fashioning of an informed citizenry will be examined. A study of the ways in which secondary curriculum, school organization, control and governance of education, and the nature of teaching and learning produce many tensions will be studied in light of the school settings in which students are placed.