Spring 2027

Education in Emergencies

Education in Emergencies examines forced migration, refugee definitions, and access to schooling. It explores curricula for camp and urban refugees and the role of humanitarianism.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Diana Rodriguez Gomez

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.92 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify and interrupt assumptions (including stereotypes and prejudices) about migrants, particularly refugees.

  • Critically examine the links between the modern state, borders, security, and forced migration.

  • Differentiate the foundations and evolution of the field of education in emergencies in relation to refugee issues and adopt a critical stance on refugee education.

  • Analyze how educators in formal and nonformal settings can offer rich learning experiences to children and youth with refugee status.

  • Exercise your academic skills in oral presentations and writing.

  • Develop the conceptual tools to trace and follow conversations about the modern state, borders, security, and forced migration.

  • Critically assess academic literature in the fields of refugee studies and education in emergencies.

  • Draw from key concepts to analyze how educators in formal and nonformal settings shape the learning experiences of children and youth with refugee status.

  • Write an argument-driven paper and exercise your academic skills in oral presentations.

Source: UW Guide

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EDPOL 435

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Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.92 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Causes of forced migration and defining refugees
  • Comparing camp and urban refugee experiences
  • Access to school and curriculum design for refugees
  • Modern state, borders, security, and forced migration
  • Foundations and evolution of education in emergencies

Skills

  • Identify and interrupt assumptions about migrants and refugees
  • Critically examine links between state, borders, security, and forced migration
  • Adopt a critical stance on refugee education and its foundations
  • Analyze educator roles in formal and nonformal refugee learning
  • Critically assess academic literature in refugee studies
  • Write argument-driven papers and deliver oral presentations

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EDPOL 435 · Spring 2027

Education in Emergencies

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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