Race and Gender in Higher Education: This engaging seminar challenges students' values, practices, and attitudes concerning the ideas they convey to students, community members, and colleagues in their own and other social institutions. Because identities tend to have effects on their opportunities, experiences, and choices - both in education and in society in general - through this course I argue that educators must have an awareness of race and gender as they have effects in educational environments and in society. Throughout the class, I will ask students to consider: As an educator, what principles and perspectives will guide your decision-making as it relates to creating a more equitable society?

Ideology, Culture and Curriculum History: Poststructural Perspectives:
   The past is never dead. It is not even past.
                                      William Faulkner
This doctoral seminar will examine fundamental concepts related to how we construct history-specifically in this case a history of curriculum. In other words, what makes “history” possible? How have concepts central to curriculum history-child-centered, progressivism, social efficiency among others become “real.” Drawing on poststructural theory this course will interrogate how ideology, discourse and language are critical to shaping culture and understandings of history. We will draw on the writings of Michel Foucault (Archaeology of Knowledge), Bernadette Baker (In Perpetual Motion), Sol Cohen (Challenging Orthodoxies: Toward a New Cultural History of Education), Herbert Kliebard (The Struggle for the American Curriculum), Ann Winnfield (Eugenics and Education), Valerie Walkerdine, Jim Marshall, and others. While we focus on curriculum history through time and space, as well as globally, there will be special attention given to the history of Southern Education.