TWO SECTIONS TO CHOOSE FROM:
EDUC 401B SLN 13318
Facilitator: Adaurennaya Onyewuenyi
- Class meets on Tuesdays.
- Start Date: 4/9
- Time: 3:00-4:20 pm
- Location: SAV 164
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EDUC 401E SLN: 13321
Facilitator: Nitya Venkateswaran
- Class meets on Wednesdays.
- State Date: 4/10
- Time: 2:00-3:20 pm
- Location: ART 006
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This seminar is designed as an exploration into the world of contemporary political, social, and educational issues in K-12 public schools. Students will learn about pressing educational topics, issues, and questions (such as the achievement gap, Race to the Top, and charter schools) while concurrently tutoring in a local school and experiencing how these concepts play out on the ground level.
For this seminar, the number of credits a student receives depends on the number of tutoring hours completed in addition to seminar attendance. Credit and tutoring requirements are as follows:
- 1 credit: 2.5 hours tutoring/week (at least 20 hours tutoring/quarter)
- 2 credits: 2.5 hours tutoring/week (at least 20 hours tutoring/quarter)
- 3 credits: 5 hours tutoring/week (at least 40 hours tutoring/quarter)
- 4 credits: 7.5 hours tutoring/week (at least 60 hours tutoring/quarter)
- 5 credits: 10 hours tutoring/week (at least 80 hours tutoring/quarter)