ARHU158I

First-Year Freshmen in the College of Arts and Humanities. Public education was broadly conceived by the educational and political founders of the United States as an instrument for shaping the political citizen. Beginning with how the founders conceived of the purpose of public education, students will trace the shifting educational fortunes of various subjects within the American polity-- the white elite, the poor, women, people of color, Native Americans, LGBTQIA, immigrants-- focusing on the inclusions and exclusions of our own university over its history. Through the lens of history, literature, philosophy and law, and through a digital humanities research project, we will look at the connection of public education and politics in the United States, concentrating on the land-grant institution.