Spring 2027

Education Across the Americas: Empire, Capitalism, and Resistance

This course examines educational inequality across the Americas through imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism, evaluating transnational education policy contexts.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Diana Rodriguez Gomez

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.69 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Draw from different sources to evaluate the transnational contexts of education policy and pose relevant questions about hemispheric educational issues

  • Use clear understandings of terms such as imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, racism, and transnationalism to explain unequal educational processes

  • Formulate and communicate research-based arguments on topics in education policy using academic literature, including primary and secondary sources

  • Produce expository and argumentative texts and draw from this work to produce a podcast

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2 UW Guide 3

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing

  • Sophomore standing
CHICLA/EDPOL/LACIS 342

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  • Sophomore standing

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Spring 2027
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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.69 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Educational inequality, imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism in the Americas.
  • The shared history of oppression and contestation in hemispheric educational policy.
  • Key concepts including imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, racism, and transnationalism.

Skills

  • Evaluate transnational contexts of education policy and pose relevant questions about hemispheric educational issues.
  • Explain unequal educational processes using concepts like imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, racism, and transnationalism.
  • Formulate and communicate research-based arguments on education policy using academic literature.
  • Produce expository and argumentative texts and create a podcast based on this work.

Grades

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Catalog & offerings

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CHICLA/EDPOL/LACIS 342 · Spring 2027

Education across the Americas: Empire, Capitalism, and Resistance

Recorded 2026-10-14
CHICLA/EDPOL/LACIS 342 · Spring 2027

Education across the Americas: Empire, Capitalism, and Resistance

Recorded 2026-10-14
CHICLA/EDPOL/LACIS 342 · Spring 2027

Education across the Americas: Empire, Capitalism, and Resistance

Recorded 2026-10-14
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