Courses

Course List

EDU 204 - HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

This course provides the contextual knowledge, analytic strategies, and reflective stance fundamental to the practice of critically engaged professional educators for inclusive and equitable schools. Students will examine the social history of schooling in the US, learn how to analyze the philosophical perspectives underlying various educational arrangements, and use reflection to interpret experience and feedback. Through classroom study and community projects, students will enhance their ability to prepare youth for democratic citizenship.

Normal Offering Cycle: Fall, Spring, and Summer I
Credits: 3

EDU 501 - SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

This course encourages the development of interpretive, normative, and critical perspectives on education. Students strengthen their capacities to examine, understand and evaluate educational policies, institutional practices, and the rights and responsibilities of all education partners. Conceptualizing education broadly to include school and non-school enterprises, this course aims to deepen students' awareness of the social contexts and implications of educational activities.

Normal Offering Cycle: Fall, Spring, and Summer I & II
Credits: 3

EDU 520 - TEACHER-LEARNER, RESEARCH, AND INQUIRY

This course supports the development of teachers who critically read, evaluate and apply qualitative and quantitative research. Multiple approaches to and examples of research design and analysis will be introduced. Further, the teacher-learner is viewed as a transformative intellectual who models for his/her students an orientation to reflection, inquiry, and action. Drawing on coursework and professional interests, students will be studying, reflecting, and identifying potential action research questions and appropriate research methodologies.

Normal Offering Cycle: Fall, Spring, and Summer I & II
Credits: 3