EDUC - Education

EDUC50A CAL Teach 1: Science and Mathematics

Introductory seminar exploring secondary students, teaching, and schools in the context of science and/or mathematics instruction. Concurrent participation in a secondary school internship required. Course material supports and enhances students' placement experiences. Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into CAL Teach and concurrent participation in a secondary school internship in a science or math classroom.

Credits

2

EDUC50B CAL Teach 1: Mathematics

Introductory seminar exploring secondary students, teaching, and schools in the context of mathematics instruction. Concurrent participation in a secondary school internship required. Course material supports and enhances students' placement experiences. Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into CAL Teach and concurrent participation in a secondary school internship in a math classroom.

Credits

2

EDUC50C CAL Teach 1: Science

Introductory seminar exploring secondary students, teaching, and schools in the context of science instruction. Concurrent participation in a secondary school internship required. Course material supports and enhances students' placement experiences. Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into CAL Teach and concurrent participation in a secondary school internship in a science classroom.

Credits

2

EDUC60 Introduction to Education: Learning, Schooling, and Society

Explores the foundations of learning and teaching, the social and political forces within schools and school systems in the U.S., and the educational policies and practices in culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

Credits

5

EDUC99 Tutorial

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

EDUC100A Cal Teach 2: Science and Mathematics

Examines students, schools, and science and/or mathematics instruction with emphasis on developing an instructional project aligned with state-mandated content standards. Concurrent participation in a secondary school internship required. Course content supports and enhances students' internship experience.

Credits

2

EDUC100B Cal Teach 2: Mathematics

Examines students, schools, and mathematics instruction with emphasis on developing an instructional project aligned with state-mandated content standards. Concurrent participation in a secondary school internship required. Course content supports and enhances students' internship experience.

Credits

2

EDUC100C Cal Teach 2: Science

Examines students, schools, and science instruction with emphasis on developing an instructional project aligned with state-mandated content standards. Student must concurrently participate in a K-12 school internship. Concurrent participation in a secondary school internship required. Course content supports and enhances students' internship experience.

Credits

2

EDUC102 Education, Media, and Society

Focusing on ways the media (both news and the entertainment industry) portrays schools, teachers, and students to the public, investigates the way society views education, the way education is presented in the media, and the way education is influenced by society.

Credits

5

EDUC104 Ethical Issues and Teaching

Emphasizes a philosophical exploration of the moral complexities of teaching. Students read theoretical investigations of these complexities, and examine case studies that pose difficult moral questions and illuminate the dilemmas of everyday life in classrooms. Course is grounded in a dialogical approach to learning.

Credits

5

EDUC115 K–12 Student Assessment

Provides an overview of educational testing. Appropriate use and interpretation of standardized, classroom achievement and special needs assessments are examined. Issues on fair testing of diverse populations of students are discussed within each topic area.

Credits

5

EDUC120 The Arts in Schools: Aesthetic Education Theory and Practice

Explores the historical legacy of the arts within education; considers aesthetic education as an inter-arts philosophical and practical endeavor; studies alternatives to the current situation of the arts in education; develops theory, curricula and methods necessary to teach the arts. Addresses both elementary and secondary teaching in the arts. Meets third-course requirements.

Credits

5

EDUC125 Multicultural Children's Literature for Elementary Classrooms

Offers opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to learn about fundamental aspects of children's literature, increase their knowledge of range and quality of children's literature, enhance their understanding of multicultural children's literature, and develop ways to integrate children's literature into elementary- and middle-school curriculum areas.

Credits

5

EDUC126 Foundations of Literacy Learning: Contemporary Perspectives

Offers an overview of historical and contemporary perspectives regarding literacy learning in America. Using a socio-cultural lens and research findings to analyze instructional practices, it provides foundational knowledge for potential teachers and policy makers regarding literary education.

Credits

5

EDUC128 Immigrants and Education

Research and theory on the education of immigrant students. Major topics include the Americanization movement and America's changing demography, identity maintenance and change, home-school relations, and educators' roles in meeting the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse student populations.

Credits

5

EDUC135 Gender and Education

Addresses the changing but continuing patterns of unequal expectations, opportunities, and treatment throughout the educational system for all students, female and male, who do not match a standard model of gender performance.

Credits

5

EDUC140 Language, Diversity, and Learning

Explores the intersection between language, diversity, and education to examine the education of youth who have been historically underserved by schools. Topics include dialect and register variation; language policy; and sociocultural perspectives on learning/teaching of language.

Credits

5

EDUC141 Bilingualism and Schooling

Introduces participants to issues related to the schooling of students who speak languages other than or in addition to English. Uses a multidisciplinary perspective to understand the circumstances these students face in schools and considers approaches and policies that best meet their needs.

Credits

5

EDUC160 Issues in Educational Reform

Explores a variety of perspectives on key educational policy issues including desegregation, bilingual education, affirmative action, charter schools, national and state curriculum standards, student assessment and the assessment and certification of teachers.

Credits

5

EDUC162 Critical Youth Studies in Education

Examines youth as a social construction, relation, and achievement to understand the everyday lives, experiences, learning, and education of youth. Explores the development, histories, cultures, politics, and resistance of youth in education, focusing on race, gender/sexuality, class, and their intersections.

Credits

5

EDUC164 Urban Education

Focuses on urban schooling through critical readings, fieldwork, group projects, and extensive writing. Students explore how socialization, marginalization, and assimilation impede or support academic success, how class intersects with race, and how culture affects one's orientation to education.

Credits

5

EDUC166 Technology and Education

Explores the history of technology in education from approximately 1950 to the present, addressing the interpersonal, epistemological, and pedagogical differences between digital and analog learning. Although no programming experience is required, participants will create an instructional application.

Credits

5

EDUC170 East Asian Schooling and Immigration

Focuses on an historical and contemporary study of education in Japan, China, Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and the adaptation to schooling in the U.S. of immigrant families from those cultures. Topics include the effects on schooling of language acquisition, religion and cultural practices, family patterns, socioeconomic status, career aspirations, and parental expectations. (Formerly Schools and Asian Cultures.)

Credits

5

EDUC171 South and Southeast Asian Schooling and Immigration

Historical and contemporary study of education in India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and the Philippines, and the adaptation to schooling in the U.S. of immigrant families. Topics include: effects of language acquisition; religion and cultural practices; family patterns; socioeconomic status; career aspirations; and parental expectations.

Credits

5

EDUC173 Seminar in Critical Pedagogy

Philosophical and pedagogical exploration of relationships among oppression, power, society, education, and change. Examines how history, power, economics, and discrimination shape societal perspectives and schooling practices, and considers ways to transform education.

Credits

5

EDUC174 Ethnographic Research in Schools and Communities

Explores ethnographic research as an important path for future teachers in understanding how diverse communities provide and support schooling at all levels.

Credits

5

EDUC177 Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students Math and Science

Examines equity issues in the learning and teaching of math and science in culturally and linguistically diverse school settings. Draws on multicultural, bilingual, and math/science education perspectives. Intended for undergraduate majors considering a K–12 teaching career. Satisfies an elective requirement for the minor in education program. Prior completion of course 180 is advised.

Credits

5

EDUC178 Advanced Educational Studies

Advanced academic development, field research, and guided experiential learning for students planning to work in education. Enrollment is restricted to juniors and seniors. May be applied only once to the minor.

Credits

5

EDUC180 Introduction to Teaching

Designed to encourage students to think about teaching in new ways. Assumptions about teaching and schooling are examined as well as considering what it takes to teach so that children learn and understand. Not a course in how to teach, but an opportunity to reconsider what teaching should try to accomplish and what kinds of learning teachers should foster. Practicum in the schools of 30 hours per quarter required.

Credits

5

EDUC181 Race, Class, and Culture in Education

Examines the schooling experience and educational attainment of racial/ethnic minority students in the U.S. Focuses primarily on domestic minorities. Addresses issues of variability between and within minority groups and the role of cultural, structural, and psychological factors in the educational attainment of these students.

Credits

5

EDUC182 American Teacher

Examines multiple and competing images of teachers and, more specifically, notions of the good teacher; also explores social, cultural, historical, and policy context of teachers' work in the U.S.

Credits

5

EDUC183 Children's Mathematical Thinking

Provides an introduction to children's mathematical thinking and an overview of major themes, issues, and questions that researchers in mathematics education have studied in relation to children's mathematical thinking.

Credits

5

EDUC185B Introduction to Mathematics Education

Provides an introduction to principles and practices for mathematics education; examines how research on learning and teaching mathematics informs approaches to teaching mathematics; provides an introduction to national and state standards, mathematics curricula, and other current issues in mathematics education.

Credits

5

EDUC185C Introduction to Teaching Science

An introduction to the principles and practices for teaching science in secondary classrooms. Course examines theoretical and practical approaches to teaching science, provides an introduction to national and state standards and an overview of science curricula and current issues in science teaching.

Credits

5

EDUC185L Introduction to Teaching: Cal Teach 3

Supplements theoretical and practical introduction to the teaching of science or mathematics with subject-pedagogical approaches. Concurrent participation in an advanced Cal Teach internship provides context to apply theory and practical techniques. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; course 50A, 50B, or 50C; course 100A,100B, or 100C; course 185B or 185C. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors or education minors, or by permission of instructor.

Credits

3

EDUC187 Cognition and Instruction

Addresses the question, How do people learn? by examining theories of learning and research on cognition, learning, and instruction.

Credits

5

EDUC194 Group Projects

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

EDUC194F Group Projects

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

EDUC197A Cal Teach Special Project

Work with K-12 students on science or math projects, ideally involving inquiry-based learning. Site supervision provided by a credentialed teacher. Project-dependent reading and writing assignments negotiated with instructor. Projects will be offered as available or initiated by student. Enrollment is by interview only. Prerequisite(s): course 50A, 50B, or 50C. Enrollment is restricted to majors in the physical and biological sciences and majors in the school of engineering or by permission of instructor.

Credits

1

EDUC197B Cal Teach Special Project

Work with K-12 students on science or math projects, ideally involving inquiry-based learning. Site supervision provided by a credentialed teacher. Project-dependent reading and writing assignments negotiated with instructor. Projects will be offered as available or initiated by student. Enrollment is by interview only. Prerequisite(s): course 50A, 50B, or 50C. Enrollment is restricted to majors in the physical and biological sciences and majors in the school of engineering or by permission of instructor.

Credits

2

EDUC197C Cal Teach Special Project

Work with K-12 students on science or math projects, ideally involving inquiry-based learning. Site supervision provided by a credentialed teacher. Project-dependent reading and writing assignments negotiated with instructor. Projects will be offered as available or initiated by student. Enrollment is by interview only. Prerequisite(s): course 50A, 50B, or 50C. Enrollment is restricted to majors in the physical and biological sciences and majors in the school of engineering or by permission of instructor.

Credits

3

EDUC198 Independent Field Study

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

EDUC198F Independent Field Study

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

EDUC199 Tutorial

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

EDUC199F Tutorial

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

EDUC200 Beginning Student Teaching

A required course that introduces students to the diverse cultural and linguistic settings of today's classrooms. Classroom practices, instructional strategies, and analysis are emphasized. First course in the student teaching placement series. Placements are used to examine and apply teaching methods while developing classroom management skills. Class meetings include discussion and demonstration of teaching methods. (Formerly Applied Classroom Analysis and Methods: Beginning Student Teaching.)

Credits

5

EDUC201 Intermediate Student Teaching

Designed to provide students enrolled in the UCSC teacher education program a coherent, integrated, pre-professional experience in public school classrooms. Students assume part-time student teaching responsibilities totalling 14–16 hours per week under the direct supervision of an exemplary classroom teacher. Weekly seminars and ongoing supervision by department staff are required.

Credits

5

EDUC201A Intermediate Student Teaching: Single Subject

Provides advanced pre-professional experience for single subject teaching candidates who progressively assume full-time responsibility for public school student teaching beginning in winter quarter. Taken concurrently with course 201. Weekly supervision and seminars with teacher supervisors are required.

Credits

5

EDUC202A Advanced Student Teaching

Designed for students who have extensive field and course experience in education, and who wish to qualify for the single-subject or multiple-subject teaching credential by undertaking a quarter of full-time, supervised student teaching.

Credits

5

EDUC202B Advanced Student Teaching

Designed for students who have extensive field and course experience in education, and who wish to qualify for the single-subject or multiple-subject teaching credential by undertaking a quarter of full-time, supervised student teaching.

Credits

5

EDUC202C Advanced Student Teaching

Designed for students who have extensive field and course experience in education, and who wish to qualify for the single-subject or multiple-subject teaching credential by undertaking a quarter of full-time, supervised student teaching.

Credits

5

EDUC203 Teaching English Language Development: Foundations, Approaches, and Strategies

This course will help future educators develop a practical theory for teaching English as a second language in K-5 schools. Topics include the theoretical foundation for language acquisition; current trends and research in the field; the role of culture in teaching English learners; language assessment; and the design of instructional units. Also focuses on teaching social studies to English learners. Enrollment restricted to M.A./credential students. (Formerly, Methods of English Language Development: Multiple Subject Credential)

Credits

5

EDUC204 Methods of English Language Development: Single Subject

Course helps future educators develop a practical theory for teaching English in the elementary and secondary schools to students who speak other languages. Topics include current trends in the field, language assessment, and the design of instructional units.

Credits

5

EDUC205 Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in a Diverse Society

Required for master's students in education; offered in summer. Three basic units comprise the subject matter: teaching/learning, with such topics as development, learning, pedagogy, and socialization theories; second, schooling, as the context of teaching/learning both in its existent structures and its reform movements; third, the sociocultural context in which educational institutions exist, topics such as cultural and historical forces, political and economic condition, family, and community structures. (Formerly Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in a Diverse Society: Multiple Subject.)

Credits

5

EDUC206 Teaching, Learning, and Schooling: Single Subject

Required for master's students in education; offered in summer. Three basic units comprise the subject matter: teaching/learning, with such topics as development, learning, pedagogy, and socialization theories; schooling, as the context of teaching/learning both in its existent structures and its reform movements; and the sociocultural context in which educational institutions exist, including topics such as cultural and historical forces, political and economic conditions, family, and community structures.

Credits

5

EDUC207 Social Foundations of Education

Offered in summer. A sustained inquiry into the social, political, economic, and historical foundations of schools with an emphasis on community attitudes toward education. Student narratives of engagement and resistance will provide a basis for insights and interventions useful to educators.

Credits

5

EDUC208 Portfolio Development

Offered in summer. Provides student and faculty adviser with time to confer over the completion of the required portfolio.

Credits

2

EDUC210 Health, Safety, and Community

Offered in summer. Addresses the preparation of teachers for creating a supportive, healthy environment for student learning. Covers topics related to physical, emotional, and social health.

Credits

2

EDUC211 Teaching Special Populations in the General Education Classroom

Addresses the preparation of teachers for meeting needs of special populations within the general education setting. Covers basic knowledge, skills, and strategies. (Formerly Topics in Elementary Education: Teaching Special Populations.)

Credits

2

EDUC212A Bilingualism and Biliteracy: History, Politics, Theory, and Practice

Taught in Spanish. Prepares future bilingual teachers to be knowledgeable about history, politics, theory, and practices related to bilingual instructional programs. Topics: second-language acquisition, bilingual-program models, equity pedagogy.

Credits

2

EDUC212B Bilingualism and Biliteracy: Language, Literacy and Content Instruction

Taught in Spanish. Prepares future bilingual teachers to teach language, literacy, and the content areas in ways that address the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Topics: literacy in two languages; academic language; assessment.

Credits

2

EDUC212C Bilingualism and Biliteracy: Community and School Partnerships

Taught in Spanish. Provides opportunities for future bilingual teachers to develop culturally relevant practices that build collaboration between the school, students' families, and community. Topics: Latino culture and history, school-parent communication.

Credits

2

EDUC213 Child and Adolescent Development for Educators

Offered in summer. Addresses theories of child and adolescent development and how these theories apply to student success in school. Topics include: cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development, and how this knowledge influences decisions teachers make about instruction and their interaction with students.

Credits

2

EDUC214 Contemporary Issues in Education

Addresses current issues in California's educational landscape. Potential topics include the teaching of LGBTQ curricula, understanding youth gang participation, the initiation of ethnic studies courses, school funding and school district budgets, and new technologies for student assessment.

Credits

2

EDUC217 Topics in Elementary Education: Physical Education

Offered in summer. Examines pedagogical understanding in teaching physical education. Introduces candidates to theoretical and research basis in physical education and content standards and frameworks. Also investigates and presents instructional practices.

Credits

2

EDUC218 Topics in Elementary Education: Visual Arts

Offered in summer. Examines pedagogical understanding in teaching visual arts. Introduces candidates to theoretical and research basis for teaching visual arts and content standards and frameworks. Also investigates and presents instructional practices.

Credits

2

EDUC219 Topics in Elementary Education: Performing Arts

Offered in summer. Examines pedagogical understanding in teaching performing arts. Introduces candidates to theoretical and research basis for teaching performing arts and content standards and frameworks. Also investigates and presents instructional practices.

Credits

2

EDUC220 Reading and Language Arts for Elementary Classrooms

This course provides both a theoretical and practical foundation for literacy instruction, emphasizing reading and language arts instruction in grades K–8. Interactive instruction and field experience will be used to examine curricula, methods, materials, and literacy evaluation.

Credits

5

EDUC221 Science Learning and Teaching in Elementary Classrooms

Examines constructivist and sociocultural approaches to the learning and teaching of science in elementary classrooms, including beliefs about the nature of science and theories of how children learn science. Provides a critical overview of curricula, instructional theories, and multiple approaches to teaching the big ideas in elementary science. Students are billed a materials fee.

Credits

5

EDUC222 Mathematics Learning and Teaching in Elementary Classrooms

This course is required for the multiple subject credential. Examines constructivist and sociocultural approaches to the learning and teaching of mathematics in elementary classrooms, including the nature of mathematics and theories of how children learn mathematics. Provides an introduction to mathematics teaching standards and a critical overview of curricula, instructional theories, and multiple approaches to teaching the big ideas in elementary mathematics.

Credits

5

EDUC225 Reading Across the Curriculum in Middle School and Secondary

Offered in summer. Provides a theoretical and practical foundation for teaching reading within content area instruction in middle school and secondary classrooms. Field experiences and interactive instruction will facilitate learning about strategies, curricula, methods, materials, and observation. Intended for students pursuing a single subject credential.

Credits

5

EDUC226 English Teaching: Theory and Curriculum

Required for the single subject English credential student. Examines sociocultural approaches to the learning and teaching of English in secondary classrooms, including theories of how children learn English language, literature, and composition.

Credits

5

EDUC227 English Teaching for Secondary Classrooms

Prepares English single subject credential candidates for student teaching in winter and spring. Course focuses on developing curricula and strategies in the content area. Through classroom placements, students observe and apply techniques to develop curriculum units used in student teaching.

Credits

5

EDUC228 Math Education: Research and Practice

Examines research on the learning and teaching of mathematics. Topics include the nature of mathematics cognition and learning, how children learn mathematics, mathematical discourse, and perspectives on addressing diversity in mathematics classrooms. Course is required for M.A./credential students in secondary (single subject) mathematics and of Ph.D. students in mathematics education.

Credits

5

EDUC229 Teaching Mathematics in the Secondary Classroom

Examines constructivist and sociocultural approaches to teaching mathematics in the secondary classroom. Course will provide an introduction to mathematics teaching standards and a critical overview of curricula, instructional theories, and multiple approaches to teaching the big ideas in secondary mathematics. Required for mathematics secondary credential.

Credits

5

EDUC230 Science Education: Research and Practice

Examines theoretical approaches to the learning and teaching of science including the nature of scientific knowledge, theories of how children learn science, approaches to scientific discourse, and perspectives on addressing diversity in science classrooms. Course is required for single subjects science credential.

Credits

5

EDUC231 Teaching Science in the Secondary Classroom

Examines constructivist and sociocultural approaches to teaching science in secondary classrooms. Course will provide a critical overview of curricula, instructional theories, and multiple approaches to teaching the big ideas in science. Students are billed a materials fee.

Credits

5

EDUC232 Social Science: Theory and Curriculum

Required for the single subject social science credential student. Tracks both the implicit and explicit connections between theory and practice, illustrating that theory suggests best practice while practice informs theory-formation and testing.

Credits

5

EDUC233 Social Science Teaching for Secondary Classrooms

Prepares social science single subject credential candidates for student teaching in winter and spring. Course focuses on developing curricula and strategies in the content area. Through classroom placements, students observe and apply techniques to develop curriculum units that are used in student teaching.

Credits

5

EDUC235 Introduction to Educational Inquiry

Addresses foundational knowledge needed to understand and conduct educational inquiry and research. Topics include epistemology in the human sciences, philosophical foundations of modern research strategies, and general classes of research investigations in education.

Credits

5

EDUC236 Quantitative Research Methods

Provides an introductory-level knowledge of quantitative research methods in educational settings. Students learn the foundations of quantitative data theory, general logic behind statistical inference, and specific methods of data analysis in educational contexts. (Formerly Quantitative Methods in Educational Research.)

Credits

5

EDUC237 Qualitative Research Methods

Graduate level introduction to qualitative methods, with special attention to ethnographic research on schooling. Moves from overview of different methods, through examination of selected studies, to discussion of issues in research design, data collection, analysis, and writing.

Credits

5

EDUC250 Teachingand Teachers

Examines the historical, socio-political, and research contours of the teaching profession. Investigates histories of teaching and teacher's work in the 19th and 20th centuries. Analyzes the contemporary era of teachers and teaching in the United States.

Credits

5

EDUC251 Analysis of Activity and Interaction in Educational Settings

Analyzes topics, which vary systematically from year to year, including analysis of classroom interaction, video recording and transcription, coding and analysis of discourse data, and software programs for qualitative analysis.

Credits

5

EDUC252 Hermeneutics of Education

Investigates philosophical hermeneutics to deeply interrogate education. Addresses such questions as: What is hermeneutics? How is education an hermeneutic enterprise? How does knowing hermeneutics deepen the ability to engage in education research?

Credits

5

EDUC253 Research Design in Mathematics and Science Education

Examines multiple approaches to designing research studies in mathematics and science education. Introduces multiple types of research designs and principles used by education researchers examining mathematics/science learning and teaching.

Credits

5

EDUC254 Critical and Alternative Paradigms in Education Research

Examines theoretical foundations of critical and alternative research paradigms commonly used in education, including critical ethnography, participatory research, counter-storytelling, and social-design experiments. Examines critiques of qualitative/quantitative research from feminist and critical theory; surveys how such critiques have informed the development of new paradigms in education research; and explores the benefits and limits of selected alternative paradigms.

Credits

5

EDUC255 Intermediate Quantitative Methods

Focuses on the applied statistical modeling and analysis of educational data (large-scale data sets), not on the mathematical foundations of science. Students learn to address quantitative research questions using general linear model (GLM) statistical methods. GLM includes regression analysis, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Students learn statistics by doing statistics.

Credits

5

EDUC256 Intermediate Qualitative Analysis

Emphasizes the analysis of qualitative data in education research and introduces interpretive analytical approaches for its use with empirical data, the use of coding software for ethnographic analysis, and video recording and transcription. (Formerly Advanced Qualitative Analysis in Education Research.)

Credits

5

EDUC260 The Teacher and The School: An Investigation of Related Practice, Reform, and Research

Explores empirical and theoretical interconnections between teachers and teaching on the one side, and schools as situated organizations on the other. The course examines these various interconnections in relation to contemporary educational research, practice, and policy reform.

Credits

5

EDUC261 Thinking and Learning

Examines multiple theoretical perspectives on thinking, learning, and teaching; the development of the whole person in a variety of cultural contexts; the roles thinking, learning, and teaching play in that development; and how researchers' and educators' conceptions shape instruction. (Formerly Thinking, Learning, and Teaching.)

Credits

5

EDUC262 Social and Cultural Context of Education

Application of anthropological and sociological theories to study of education. Examines social, cultural, and linguistic context of schooling with particular attention to role of race, class, culture, power, and language in influencing schooling outcomes.

Credits

5

EDUC263 Educational Reform

Provides students with multiple analytic perspectives from which to examine important educational issues by analyzing political, historical, and philosophical origins of educational reform in the U.S. and internationally. (Formerly Foundations of Educational Reform.)

Credits

5

EDUC264 Research on Teacher Development and Teacher Education

Addresses personal and professional development of teachers. Explores models of teacher education with specific attention to methods and processes by which teachers can be better prepared to work with culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Credits

5

EDUC265 Teacher as Educational Policy Maker

Focuses on the role teachers play in making/implementing educational policy. Addresses how this topic is implicated in enhancing the educational opportunities available to students who, historically, have been underserved by schools.

Credits

5

EDUC266 Program Evaluation and Action Research in Educational Reform

Overview of the purpose of and practice in program evaluations in a variety of contexts with a specific focus on educational settings. Students learn the techniques of program evaluation; the historical and theoretical context of program evaluations, including its relation to experimental research; and how action research can be used in conducting field-based evaluations. Students should be familiar with basic quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

Credits

5

EDUC268 Schools, Communities, and Families

Examines the nexus of schools, communities, and families, and, in particular, how collaboration across institutional boundaries can facilitate school and community reform.

Credits

5

EDUC271 Theoretical Perspectives on Learning and Using Literacy

Examines theoretical perspectives, educational issues, and scholarship related to use and development of literacy among diverse populations, particularly those who have not fared well in U.S. schools.

Credits

5

EDUC272 Language in Education and Society

Investigates discipline of sociolinguistics and explores actual ways in which sociolinguistics has become a useful lens for better understanding teaching, learning, and schooling. Conduct own sociolinguistic analyses of data collected for culminating project. (Formerly Sociolinguistics in Education.)

Credits

5

EDUC273 Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, and Education

Foundations of first- and second-language acquisition and bilingualism with emphasis on implications for education in linguistically diverse settings. Topics include linguistic, cognitive, sociolinguistic, and sociocultural approaches to development of languages and the nature of individual and societal bilingualism.

Credits

5

EDUC274 Language and Power in Education

Examines relationships between sociopolitical struggles and language/language practices. Students study ways in which Marxism, critical theory, and post structuralism have represented links between language and power, and investigate contemporary studies of language and power in education.

Credits

5

EDUC276 Theory and Practice of Writing

Explores first and second language-writing theory, research, and practice, especially relating to language minority students and others considered academically under-prepared. Focuses on educational settings from pre-school settings including families and communities.

Credits

5

EDUC278 Critical Exploration of Reading Theory and Practice

Doctoral seminar that examines historical and current research on reading processes and instructional practices. Intensive study of factors affecting the development of proficient, engaged, and reflective readers who can acquire new knowledge from text.

Credits

5

EDUC279 Directed Reading

Directed reading that does not involve a final paper. Students submit a petition to the course-sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit up to four times. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

EDUC279F Directed Reading

Directed reading that does not involve a final paper. Students submit a petition to the course-sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit up to four times. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

EDUC280 Language and Literacy Across Disciplines

Considers and critiques conceptualizations of the language used for academic pursuits, from the early years of schooling to higher education. Focuses on implications for research and practice related to the education of students in linguistically diverse schools and societies. (Formerly Academic Language.)

Credits

5

EDUC281 Conceptual Change in Science and Mathematics

Examines approaches in cognitive science, mathematics education, and science education to documenting student conceptions in science and mathematics, defining conceptual change, and describing relationship between conceptual change and learning with understanding.

Credits

5

EDUC282 Informal Learning in Sciences and Mathematics

Explores research on learning outside of school in multiple settings such as museums, after-school clubs, aquariums, workplaces, and homes. Readings draw from multiple fields and disciplines, including cognitive psychology, cognitive anthropology, cognitive science, education, museum education and evaluation, science, and mathematics education. Examine theoretical approaches to describing and understanding how people learn science and mathematics outside of school, empirical studies documenting learning in multiple non-school settings, and diversity issues in out-of-school settings.

Credits

5

EDUC283 Equity and Social Justice in Mathematics and Science Education

Examines the theory, research, policy and practice of social justice and equity in mathematics and science education in local, national, and international contexts. Emphasizes the promotion of equity and critical mathematics and science literacy in schools and communities.

Credits

5

EDUC284 Gender in Mathematics and Science Education

Explores basic aspects of gender in the fields of mathematics and science education. Discusses historical trends, current dilemmas, and how science and mathematics block or enable access for women.

Credits

5

EDUC285 Culture and Learning

Examines multiple approaches to the study of the relation between culture and learning. Readings include historical and contemporary perspectives from cognitive science, cognitive anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, and socio-cultural theories as frameworks for the study of culture and learning.

Credits

5

EDUC286 Research in STEM Education

Focuses on particular issues of theoretical importance to research in mathematics and science education. Topics vary from year to year. Particular issues in cognition, learning, teaching, curriculum, and assessment in mathematics and science education may be covered. (Formerly Special Topics in Math and Science Education.)

Credits

5

EDUC287 Issues in Educational Assessment

Familiarizes students with the basic concepts of educational assessment and explores issues related to the design and implementation of educational assessment as well as the application of educational assessment in educational research.

Credits

5

EDUC288 Ethnographies of Education

Offers opportunity to critique a range of book-length ethnographic studies of education focusing on relationship between culture, learning, and schooling in the U.S. with comparative studies from other countries.

Credits

5

EDUC289 School Organization

Applies multiple perspectives drawn from organizational theory, highlighting important aspects of organization of schools, including their operational environment, instructional organization, and professional and bureaucratic dimensions.

Credits

5

EDUC290 CHAT and Educational Practice and Research

Introduction to cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) based on work of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, and contemporary developments of their ideas. Explores the utility of CHAT as a framework for thinking about educational practice and research.

Credits

5

EDUC291 Globalization and Transnationalism in Education

Examines educational access and advancement in several nations affected by globalization, national policies, and localized identity and opportunity structures. Attention to language and cultural expectations relevant to research in international contexts and how this knowledge provides reflection on the American condition. (Formerly Comparative and International Education.)

Credits

5

EDUC292 Ideology and Education

Philosophical study of the theory of ideology from Marx to the present and how ideologies (racism, sexism, classism, linguicism, abilityism) become embodied, reproduced, resisted, and transformed (and particularly the role of education therein).

Credits

5

EDUC293A Research Apprenticeship

Research apprenticeship under guidance of faculty member during first or second year of doctoral studies. May also be taken in the third year and beyond. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

EDUC293B Research Apprenticeship

Research apprenticeship under guidance of faculty member during first or second year of doctoral studies. May also be taken in the third year and beyond. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

EDUC294 Second-Year Research Project

Doctoral students work with faculty advisors to plan, carry out, and write up small independent research project during second year of graduate studies. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

EDUC295 Critical Perspectives on Education

Investigates critical theories in education. Situates the themes against and within critical theory and philosophic foundations of Paulo Freire's theory of liberation education. Elaborates these themes within the discourses on critical race theory and education, and feminism and education. (Formerly Critical Theories of Education.)

Credits

5

EDUC296 Educational Policy and the Context of Teachers' Work

Focuses on both the conceptual and methodological developments in the study of policy and on the research relation to the policy context of teachers' work.

Credits

5

EDUC297 Independent Study

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

EDUC297F Independent Study

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

EDUC298 TA Apprenticeship

Students work with a faculty member who is teaching an undergraduate or MA/Credential course. Students will not be responsible for final grades, narrative evaluations, or holding discussion section. The expected course time commitment is limited to 2-3 hours per week, plus class meeting time. Students gain perspectives and practices of teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, working with the instructor on lesson planning, class instruction, and grading some student work.

Credits

2

EDUC299 Thesis Research

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5