Fall 2022

  • EDUC 110: Introduction to Educational Studies

    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. 6 credits; Social Inquiry, Writing Requirement, Intercultural Domestic Studies; offered Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023 · Jeff Snyder, Anita Chikkatur

  • EDUC 234: Educational Psychology

    Human development and learning theories are studied in relation to the teaching-learning process and the sociocultural contexts of schools. Three hours outside of class per week are devoted to observing learning activities in public school elementary and secondary classrooms and working with students. 6 credits; Social Inquiry; offered Fall 2022 · Deborah Appleman

  • EDUC 340: Race, Immigration, and Schools

    This course explores the important role that public schools have played in the American national imagination as the way to socialize students about what it means to be American and to prepare them to participate as citizens in a democracy. Focusing on two periods of high rates of immigration into the United States (1890-1920 and 1965-present), the course examines how public schools have attempted to Americanize newly arrived immigrant children as well as to socialize racial minority children into the American mainstream. While most of the readings will focus on urban schools, the course will also consider the growing immigrant populations in rural schools through readings and applied academic civic engagement projects.

     Prerequisites: 100 or 200-level Educational Studies course or instructor permission 6 credits; Social Inquiry, Intercultural Domestic Studies; offered Fall 2022 · Anita Chikkatur

Winter 2023

  • EDUC 110: Introduction to Educational Studies

    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. 6 credits; Social Inquiry, Writing Requirement, Intercultural Domestic Studies; offered Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023 · Jeff Snyder, Anita Chikkatur

Spring 2023

  • EDUC 110: Introduction to Educational Studies

    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. 6 credits; Social Inquiry, Writing Requirement, Intercultural Domestic Studies; offered Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023 · Jeff Snyder, Anita Chikkatur

  • EDUC 225: Issues in Urban Education

    This course is an introduction to urban education in the United States. Course readings and discussion will focus on various perspectives in the field in order to understand the key issues and debates confronting urban schools. We will examine historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural frameworks for understanding urban schools, students and teachers. Through course readings, field visits and class discussions, we explore the following: (1) student, teacher and researcher perspectives on urban education, (2) the broader sociopolitical urban context of K-12 schooling in cities, (3) teaching and learning in urban settings and (4) ideas about re-imagining urban education.

     6 credits; Social Inquiry, Intercultural Domestic Studies; offered Spring 2023 · Anita Chikkatur

  • EDUC 338: Multicultural Education

    This course focuses on the respect for human diversity, especially as these relate to various racial, cultural and economic groups, and to women. It includes lectures and discussions intended to aid students in relating to a wide variety of persons, cultures, and life styles. Prerequisites: 100 or 200-level Educational Studies course or instructor permission 6 credits; Social Inquiry, Intercultural Domestic Studies; offered Spring 2023 · Anita Chikkatur

  • EDUC 385: Schooling and Communities: A Practicum for Teacher Candidates

    This course permits licensure candidates to become more familiar with their student teaching sites through frequent observation and interaction. The course provides an opportunity to work directly in schools and community organizations related to schools and to reflect on that experience in a classroom setting.

     Prerequisites: Acceptance into Teacher Licensure Program and registration for fall student teaching 6 credits; Does not fulfill a curricular exploration requirement; offered Spring 2023 · Deborah Appleman

  • EDUC 395: Senior Seminar

    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.

     Prerequisites: Educational Studies minor or instructor permission 6 credits; Does not fulfill a curricular exploration requirement; offered Spring 2023 · Jeff Snyder