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Item A Loose Canon: An Analysis of Plan II Honors and Cultural Diversity Course Curricula at the University of Texas at Austin(2023-11) Gokhale, PriaOver the past couple decades, controversy surrounding culturally diverse educational standards has taken centre stage of many American political debates. Diversity has come under intense scrutiny by portions of the public and lawmakers as curriculum culture-wars ensue. Professors and students have raised similar issues concerning the adequacy of academic material at the University of Texas at Austin. This thesis explores the extent to which the curriculum in CD flag courses and Plan II Honors Program courses showcases diverse perspectives. Using existing scholarship on diversifying curriculum, this thesis evaluates how the Plan II curriculum engages with Eurocentrism in academic material, and the extent to which courses offered under the Cultural Diversity flag requirement help decolonise knowledge production. My methodology includes original research in the form of syllabus analysis of eight courses which claim to offer a survey of a discipline, and interviews with four professors across a variety of departments at the University of Texas at Austin. Ultimately, this project draws attention to major themes that can be traced across departments which affect the propensity for curriculum to involve a variety of perspectives, and offers several recommendations that institutions should consider in their efforts to continue diversifying syllabus content.Item Advancing an (Im)Possible Alternative: Ethnic Studies in Neoliberal Times(Texas Education Review, 2019) Armonda, Alex J.This conceptual paper examines the question of the political imaginary in the neoliberal moment, and the crucial role that Ethnic Studies can play in realizing critical pedagogy’s promise of emancipatory social transformation. After Arizona House Bill 2281, educational scholarship has paid renewed attention to Ethnic Studies classrooms as key sites of politically transformative praxis. Attending to recent literature that contextualizes Ethnic Studies within broader contemporary struggles against neoliberal educational reform, this analysis traces the contentious relationship between Ethnic Studies and the advancements of neoliberal multicultural ideology.This essay extends these critical dialogues by arguing for a dialectical description of the Ethnic Studies, which emphasizes its ability to stage productive confrontations between traditions in Marxist philosophy, decolonial theory, and critical race theory. The epistemological and ontological tensions that arise here, I argue, are central to reframing our understanding of consciousness raising and the formation of radical subjectivities in the present.Item Education y Justicia: A Living History of the Latinx Experience in U.T Austin(2018) Hernandez, LukeItem Letter from Judith Langlois to President Faulkner Regarding UT 10(1999-05-06) Langlois, Judith H.Item Letter of Support for Asian American Studies(1998-03-20) Okihiro, Gary Y.Item UT President Faulkner's Responses to Questions Raised Regarding the Students Arrested on May 3, 1999(1999-05-05) Faulkner, Larry R.