De/Re/Segregation in Education: A Case of Back to the Future?

Description from DukeHub

Course traces timeline of segregation, desegregation, integration and resegregation in education in the United States, from policies and practices first enacted at this nation's birth through current policies and practices that challenge our commitments to opportunity, equality, and equity. Course invites students to study historical and contemporary practices in education, comparing segregation and resegregation as moments in the education history of the US, taking recent developments in North Carolina education policy and practice as cases to enrich understanding. Students engage in a minimum of 20 hours of planned service activities.

Skills

• policy and lawdescription: "policies" and 2 more
• fieldworkAI review: "minimum of 20 hours of planned service activities"

AI-resilient: 3 of 5 3/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• ✓Yes: Live work with people · "service-learning"
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "policies"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• ✓Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 18 seats per section

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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