IDIS 205 Societal Structures and Education as a Social Enterprise (3). Core: Societal Structures in North America. This course provides students with insights into the genesis, composition, and impact of fundamental societal structures of North American society. The course has as a special focus the two-way interaction between education as a socio-cultural institution, and the societal structures that constitute education's cultural, economic, and political context. The class explores how a social science perspective offers insight into current social institutions and cultural practices that constitute North American society. The course employs central concepts, theories and research skills of the social sciences as well as Christian norms such as social justice to help students think critically about the interaction between education and society.

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