Below is a list of courses that instructors created from scratch or modified to center anti-racist and inclusive pedagogical practices. While the topic for each course may be specific and not relate to any of your own courses, the steps and suggestions related to how the course was designed and implemented are meant to be applicable to any course. If you have designed a course that you would like us to feature here, please contact us.
Field Methods
This case study summarizes 3 linguistic field methods courses (one undergraduate course and a graduate 2-course sequence) that were designed to highlight fieldwork ethics, decolonial and Indigenous research methodologies, and collaborative approaches to language documentation.
History of Phonetics
This course (mixed undergraduate-graduate seminar) was designed to review the history of the field of phonetics between ca 1850-1950, while at the same time adopting a more inclusive and anti-racist pedagogical framework.
Language Acquisition
This case study summarizes teaching modules from two iterations of an upper-division undergraduate course on language acquisition that were designed to challenge some common deficit perspectives on the language of racialized learners.
Psycholinguistics
This course was an upper-division undergraduate psycholinguistics class designed to incorporate examples from a variety of languages (spoken and signed).
Syntax II
This course was an advanced undergraduate syntax class that was designed to decenter English in the classroom.