Oct 15, 2025  
2025-2026 Graduate and Professional Studies Hill Book 
    
2025-2026 Graduate and Professional Studies Hill Book

TED 650 - Diversity, Disproportionality, and Discipline

3 Credits
Offered periodically or as needed
This course will examine intersectionality and the complex racial, gendered, and class-based dimensions that perpetuate inequitable environments and opportunities in schools. We will explore critical race theory (CRT) and its theoretical relevance as a framework to examine and challenge disparate educational opportunities for students of color. The course will offer an examination of the policies, procedures and structures that perpetuate disproportionality and overrepresentation. This course will analyze assumptions about race, gender, and class, as well as how these dynamics unfold In U.S. schools through political, sociological, theoretical, and pedagogical lenses.

Prerequisites/Restrictions: Completion of a bachelor’s degree.