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Fall 2011
Anthro 98/198
2 Unit(s)

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About the Course:

This course will address past and present struggles over education, focusing particularly on struggles against educational privatization.  The first half of the course will offer historical and theoretical contexts that will guide us as we think through more recent uprisings.  We’ll begin by looking at student/worker movements in California, Mexico, and France during the late 1960s, then we will read a number of theoretical and historical works on neoliberalism and structural adjustment.  During the second half of the semester, we will address ourselves to the fragmentary archives of contemporary student/worker movements in Latin America, Asia, Europe, and North America, with the last three weeks focusing particularly on the public education crisis in California.

The class will meet once a week.  Class will be structured around both lecture, film screenings and group discussions where students will have the opportunity to contribute opinions and experiences in order to reach a greater understanding of the subject matter.  Students will also have the opportunity to learn from various guest lecturers about different moments of what might ultimately appear to be something like an extended, transnational struggle for accessible, quality public education.

How to Enroll:

First come first serve. CCN# 02471