Mastering the Hidden Curriculum is a twelve week, pass/fail course for first year Georgetown students who identify as first-generation (first in their family to attend college) and/or low-income (FGLI) students. Team-taught by some of Georgetown’s best professors, students in the course examine and reflect on their identities and experiences as FGLI students and seek to complicate the discourse on efforts made to expand access to higher education.
At the end of the course, students leave with a toolkit for academic empowerment and a community of peers, faculty and staff mentors, and allies committed to a whole institution approach to equity and inclusion.
Mastering the Hidden Curriculum was launched as a University-Wide Cross-Disciplinary (UNXD) course in Fall 2018. Rooted in experiential, whole-person, and interdisciplinary learning, the course is a joint project of the Georgetown Scholars Program and Georgetown’s Designing the Future(s) Initiative to provide a uniquely curricular opportunity to support first generation and low-income students at Georgetown University.
Mastering the Hidden Curriculum Faculty Members
Kendra Billingslea, MS, Associate Dean
School of Foreign Service
Marcia Chatelain, PhD, Professor
Department of History
Benjamin Cheng, J.D., Lecturer of Legal English
Georgetown Law
Susan M. Cheng, Ed.L.D., MPP, Senior Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion & Associate Professor
School of Medicine & Department of Family Medicine
Soyica Colbert, PhD, Vice President for Interdisciplinary Initiatives and Idol Family Professor
Department of Performing Arts
Rhonda Dzakpasu, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Physics & Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Brian Floyd, MS, Assistant Dean
School of Nursing and Health Studies
Patricia Grant, EdD, MBA, Senior Associate Dean of the Undergraduate Program
McDonough School of Business
Lee Jones, M.D., Dean of Medical Education
School of Medicine
Jason Low, MPP
Georgetown Scholars Program
Ricardo Ortiz, PhD, Professor
Department of English
Judith Perez-Caro, PhD
Georgetown University
Amanda Phillips, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of English
Ray Shiu, MA, Deputy Director
Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching & Service
Elena Silva, PhD, Professor & Vice Dean of Faculty and Diversity and Inclusion
Department of Biology
Rajiv Sonti, M.D., Assistant Professor
School of Medicine
Shree Taylor, PhD
Georgetown University
Sabrina Wesley-Nero, PhD, Associate Teaching Professor & Director
Program in Education, Inquiry and Justice