<p>Lecture, three hours. Introduction to critical scholarship on the relationship between capitalism and higher education in the U.S., and to campus workers and their attempts to use collective action to change higher education. Survey of critical university studies scholarship on how and why the U.S. higher education system may reproduce more than ameliorate social inequality. Introduction to staff and academic worker unions at the University of California, and their visions for public higher education. Students research the current use of artificial intelligence in higher education, and develop ideas for organizing college students and/or workers to determine how artificial intelligence is used. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

Labor Studies

College of Letters and Science

LBR STD 137 - Labor and Public Higher Education: Campus Workers, Working Students, and the Public Good

Labor and Public Higher Education: Campus Workers, Working Students, and the Public Good

Familiarity with academic and staff labor unions on college campuses

Basic familiarity with critical university studies critiques of higher education’s relationship with capitalism in the US

Familiarity with interdisciplinary scholarship on AI, labor, and higher education

General Catalog

Labor and Public Higher Education: Campus Workers, Working Students, and the Public Good

LBR STD 137

4 units