About the Curriculum

Sparta’s curriculum is based on the principles of critical race theory:

  • the centrality and intersectionality of race and racism

  • the challenge to dominant ideology

  • the commitment to social justice

  • the centrality of experiential knowledge

  • the interdisciplinary perspective

Sparta aims to teach students to understand and craft public policy initiatives based in an ethnic studies and community-centered approach. Our curriculum incorporates ethnic studies teachings that frame human activity and outcomes as influenced by larger historical structural forces and systems of power.