Instructor: Sylvia Martinez
Class No. 27027
Time, Days: 11:15A-12:30P TR
Place: ED 1220
Above class carries culture studies credit and COLL S&H dist. crd.
Above class meets with Educ-H380 and Ltam-L426
Above class has an OPTIONAL service learning component

As a significant and growing segment of contemporary U.S. society,
Latino/Hispanic peoples demand and deserve educational opportunities
commensurate with their own cultural traditions. This course is
designed to provide students with critical knowledge about patterns
and issues in Latino education.  Challenging the conventional
distinction between Latin American citizens, and Latinos in the
United States, the course illuminates major educational patterns and
issues for Latinos by examining the impact of cultural and
institutional flows across the Americas. A major premise of the
course is that in order to fully understand contemporary Latino
educational challenges and conditions in the United States, we must
look at the broader historical and cultural contexts in which Latino
education occurs.