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HIST 403 - Directed Individual Study


Credits: 3


Prerequisites: Cumulative grade-point average of 3.250 in all history courses, completion of three 200- or 300-level history courses, and instructor consent. A course which permits the student to follow a program of directed reading or research in an area not covered in other courses. May be repeated for degree credit each term of the junior and senior year.

Winter 2018, HIST 403-01: Directed Individual Study (3). DeLaney.

Winter 2018, HIST 403-02: Directed Individual Study: History of Education (3). This course surveys the history of education with an inter-American perspective, focusing specifically on the prevailing pedagogical theories embraced by educators and policymakers over the course of the 20th century. During the first half of the course, we read the works of influential pedagogists John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and Gonzalo Rubio Orbe, as well as historical surveys of the education systems in the United States and Latin America at large. The second half of the semester, we focus on the education system in Bolivia,  especially various rural education initiatives. Gildner.




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