Infrastructure and Society: ORIAS Summer Institute 2025 - EDC-X792Y

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Course Description

Credit Validation for ORIAS at UC Berkeley Participants Only

Infrastructure and Society introduces students to a variety of infrastructures across time and place. The course explores different types of infrastructure—such as transportation, education, communication, water management, and city planning—through a critical lens. Students will develop a robust set of inquiry questions and an investigative process they can use with their own students in their teaching context.

The ORIAS Summer Teacher Institute is offered annually by a consortium of seven National Resource Centers at the University of California, Berkeley, and coordinated through their joint outreach office, the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS). Each year, the program centers on a new theme. The summer institute takes place over four days (26 contact hours) during one week.

Learner Outcomes

Identify and describe multiple forms of infrastructure
Explain ways that infrastructure iteratively changes and is changed by the societies that build, maintain, and use it
Analyze how political and economic power, worldviews, environment, and technologies are all related to infrastructure

Course Details

Number of Units: 2.0 graduate level extension credit(s) in semester hours

Who Should Attend: This course provides continuing education for ORIAS at UC Berkeley Participants.

Prerequisites

All participants must be in-service educators in K–12 schools or districts. Pre-service teachers are also eligible to enroll for credit.