Department of Educational Leadership and Policy
Registration number: 23868 (3 Credit Hours)
Are you interested in educational equity, economic justice, public health, and global human rights? Do you want to learn key policy and leadership skills to help make a difference in communities, schools, and multiple levels of governance? Do you want to earn a UB minor in this content? If so, then ELP 200 is for you. This course introduces undergraduate students to what leading critical politics and policy scholars have to say about K-12 educational equity concerns, policies, and leadership practice. Students also will explore how their identity and views of leadership matter to developing policy and building inclusive social environments – in this case, schools and local communities. Course material largely pulls from the discipline of education, but the course also introduces students to engaging in interdisciplinary scholarship from disciplines such as gender studies, law, public health, and social work. Coursework provides students with opportunities to develop critical sense-making about policy and leadership in a way that empowers them to become advocates on global, national, and local issues.
Time/Location: Remote, Remote
For more information about the course: https://www.buffalo.edu/class- schedule?switch=showclass&semester=spring&division=UGRD&dept=ELP®nu m=23868
For more information about the ELPE minor: https://ed.buffalo.edu/leadership/academics/minor.html
Contact: Melinda Lemke, ELP Associate Professor; ELPE Minor Program Director; Honors College Fellow, malemke@buffalo.edu
Open to all majors, this minor provides students the opportunity to study through coursework and experiential learning, topics such as: race, gender, and class inequality; homelessness; immigrant and refugee education; K-12 educational reform and higher education access; school-community partnerships; health equity and violence prevention.
Benefits:
• The ability to use knowledge from educational leadership, policy, and the social sciences to address justice issues.
• Awareness of how social and economic inequality affects educational systems, policy and intervention strategies.
• Best practices and hands-on skills for working in diverse educational and related contexts.
It will prepare students interested in studying social, political, and economic contexts of education, policy, and leadership. It will also prepare students for careers in education, policy, non-profit, non-governmental organizations, and related professions.
To finish this minor you must complete 18 credit hours, including 4 required courses and 2 electives.
CONTACT: Melinda Lemke, PhD
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy malemke@buffalo.edu | 716-645-1090
VISIT: ed.buffalo.edu/leadership/minor
Please see the Summer 2020 online course offerings from the Department of Anthropology and the pathways lists they appear on.
APY 106:
Diversity Requirement
Thematic Pathways:
- Economy, Business and Society
- Cultures, Art and Imagination
- Communities, Populations and Spaces/Human Nature
Global Pathways:
- Global Politics and Power
- Global Economies and Organizations
- Global Cultures and Expression
APY 107
Thematic Pathways:
- Environments, Technologies and Policy
- Human Nature
- Health, Sexuality and Society
APY 108
Thematic Pathways:
- Environments, Technologies and Policy
- Cultures, Art and Imagination
- Communities, Populations and Spaces
Global Pathways:
- Global Politics and Power
- Global Economies and Organizations
- Global Cultures and Expression
