Mar 29, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2020-2021 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EDUC 2140 - Exploring Global Issues in Education


Credits: 3

This course is a guided field experience designed to immerse students in global issues challenging the educational community worldwide, from both academic and experiential perspectives. Through guided studies and field experiences abroad, students will gain a greater appreciation of the challenges faced by emerging nations that include the effects of poverty, exceptionality, race, ethnicity, language and gender on access to quality education and equitable life chances. By studying and completing a field experience abroad, students will gain insights into linkages between education and national development, as well as the impact of national, multinational, NGO organizations and global civil society’s role in nation building.