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The ethnic studies curriculum will begin as a pilot program in at least five high schools. [49] It is expected that by the 2017–2018 academic school year, every high school will offer at least one course in ethnic studies and the class would be compulsory by the time the class of 2019 graduates. [50]
The college's initial intention was to train counselors who were well-versed and practiced in areas of spirituality and consciousness. In 1979, the college started to offer programs in Counseling. Quimby College later became Southwestern College. [5] [6] In 1996, Southwestern College became accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. [1]
AP African American Studies was the first ethnic studies course offered by College Board, and was the first pilot course since 1952. [6] Topics in the pilot course range from Queen Nzinga in northern Angola to the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Panthers. [7]
On the first day of Black History Month, the College Board is releasing details of its first Advanced Placement class on African American studies for high school students.
The political uproar over diversity studies is clouding the reality that few four-year institutions offer a major in Latino or other ethnic studies. Few universities offer ethnic studies majors ...
Native American studies (also known as American Indian, Indigenous American, Aboriginal, Native, or First Nations studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues, spirituality, sociology and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, [1] or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas. [2]
The college's nickname, "Moundbuilders," (frequently shortened to just "Builders") has inspired the creation of a large pile of rocks on the college campus, called "The Mound." At the beginning of each school year, the "Moundbuilding Ceremony" allows students, faculty, alum, clubs, and guests of Southwestern College to place a rock on the Mound ...
The Minnesota Department of Education may fully adopt its proposed new social studies standards, a judge has ruled, including an ethnic studies component that has sparked intense debate over ...