College Prep or SHU Early College Experience Dual Credit
Option 1: Black and Latino Studies (1 credit) ECE
Option 2: African American/Black Studies (½ credit/Fall Semester)
Option 3: Latino/a/x Studies (½ credit/Spring Semester)
Grades 11, 12
Prerequisite: Modern World History and U.S. History
This course is an opportunity for students to explore accomplishments, struggles, perspectives, and collaborations of African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latino people in the United States. Students will examine how historical movements, legislation, and wars affected the citizenship rights of these groups and how they, both separately and together, worked to build U.S. cultural and economic wealth and create more just societies in local, national, and international contexts. Coursework will provide students with tools to identify historic and contemporary tensions around race and difference; map economic and racial disparities over time; strengthen their own identity development; and address bias in their communities.
Students must take the full credit course (option 1) in order to receive the AP/ECE weight.