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Your search for courses · during 2025-26 · taught by jsnyder · returned 5 results
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EDUC 100 Will This Be on the Test? Standardized Testing and American Education 6 credits
How and why have standardized tests become so central to our educational system? This seminar will explore the following topics, among others–the invention of standardized tests and the growth of the testing industry; psychometrics (the science of mental measurement); and the controversies surrounding the use of standardized tests, including charges that they are culturally biased and do not positively contribute to student learning. Our analyses will be informed by a close examination of authentic testing materials, ranging from intelligence tests to the SAT.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2025
- AI/WR1, Argument & Inquiry/WR1
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Student is a member of the First Year First Term class level cohort. Students are only allowed to register for one A&I course at a time. If a student wishes to change the A&I course they are enrolled in they must DROP the enrolled course and then ADD the new course. Please see our Workday guides Drop or 'Late' Drop a Course and Register or Waitlist for a Course Directly from the Course Listing for more information.
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EDUC 100.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Jeff Snyder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWillis 114 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 114 9:40am-10:40am
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EDUC 110 Introduction to Educational Studies 6 credits
This course will focus on education as a multidisciplinary field of study. We will explore the meanings of education within individual lives and institutional contexts, learn to critically examine the assumptions that writers, psychologists, sociologists and philosophers bring to the study of education, and read texts from a variety of disciplines. What has “education” meant in the past? What does “education” mean in contemporary American society? What might “education” mean to people with differing circumstances and perspectives? And what should “education” mean in the future? Open only to first-and second-year students.
- Spring 2026
- IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies SI, Social Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has Sophomore Priority.
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EDUC 110.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jeff Snyder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 203 10:10am-11:55am
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Sophomore Priority
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EDUC 242 The Future is Now: Education and Technology in the 21st Century 6 credits
This course will examine the increasingly prominent role that technology is playing in education, inside and outside of schools. How is technology transforming teaching and learning? What are the potential costs and benefits of relying on technology to provide educational opportunities? Is technology re-wiring our brains? And who needs brains when we have Google and ChatGPT? This course will examine the following topics, among others: digital literacy, virtual reality, cyborgs and artificial intelligence.
- Winter 2026
- SI, Social Inquiry
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EDUC 242.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Jeff Snyder 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THWillis 114 1:15pm-3:00pm
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EDUC 367 Culture Wars in the Classroom 6 credits
This course examines past and present school controversies, including school prayer, banned books, and student protests. Who controls the curriculum? How do we teach contentious issues such as evolution, racism, and climate change? To what extent do teachers and students enjoy the right to free expression? These are the kinds of questions “Culture Wars in the Classroom” will explore, as we consider the purpose of public education in a diverse, multicultural nation.
- Winter 2026
- IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies No Exploration
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EDUC 367.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Jeff Snyder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWillis 114 10:10am-11:55am
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EDUC 395 Senior Seminar 6 credits
This is a capstone seminar for educational studies minors. It focuses on a contemporary issue in American education with a different topic each year. Recent seminars have focused on the school to prison pipeline, youth activism, intellectual freedom in schools, and gender and sexuality in education. Senior seminars often incorporate off campus work with public school students and teachers.
Extra Time required.
- Spring 2026
- No Exploration
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Student is an Educational Studies minor.
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EDUC 395.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jeff Snyder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWillis 114 1:15pm-3:00pm