The Education and Society concentration in Sociology gives Penn undergraduates the opportunity to engage the sociological imagination as they consider pertinent issues in education; from its role in stratification and cultural reproduction to its consideration as an engine of social mobility and a marker of privilege. Through this analysis of education, students will be able to approach jobs in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions with a critical understanding of the impact of these institutions on the populations they serve and don’t serve. Alternatively, students can leverage the academic training within this concentration to approach a wide array of careers related to educational policy.
SOCI 0001: Poverty and Inequality (First-year seminar)
SOCI 0005: Sociology of Education (First-year seminar)
SOCI 1050: Social Stratification
SOCI 2280: Sociology of Education
SOCI 2281: Demography of Education
SOCI 2680: Contemporary Immigration in the U.S.
SOCI 2690: Comparative and International Education - Focus on East Asian Education
SOCI 2943: Global Urban Education
SOCI 5450: Economic Development, Education, and Inequality in East Asia (Graduate course)
BENF 2280: Education and International Development
EDUC 1450: (Re)Making U.S. Schools
EDUC 2002: Urban Education
EDUC 2050: Learning from Children
EDUC 2140: Education in American Culture
EDUC 2541: Educational Psychology
EDUC 5180: Gender & Education
EDUC 5430: Migration, Displacement, and Education
EDUC 5538: Stereotype Threat, Impostor Phenomenon, and African Americans
EDUC 5490: School and Society in America
EDUC 5782: Sociology of Education
EDUC 5841: Access & Choice in American Higher Education
HSOC 2312: Healthy Schools
HIST 1165: History of American Education
LALS 2320: Educating for Democracy in Latin America and the U.S.
PHIL 2560: Philosophy of Education
URBS 2020: Urban Education
URBS 3260: Tutoring in Urban Public Elementary Schools: A Child Development Perspective