Courses
CI 185 - Principles of Social Justice in Education
This course explores the foundations of equity-based educational practices and helps students construct individual working definitions of social justice. The course includes engagement with foundational, historical, and contemporary scholarly and popular literature; guest lecturers from the University and local communities; and multimedia. Students explore tensions between theory and practical application and begin developing a language of critique for considering issues within the world of education. Progress is assessed via a variety of artifacts including self-assessment, guided journal entries, reflection upon campus and community social justice events, and written and oral research reports on a social justice topic of choice. For students interested in the Social Justice in Education minor, the course provides a conceptual foundation and skill set.
CI 280 - Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners
This course focuses on the development of foundational knowledge for teacher education students who will work with English language learners (ELLs) in their future classrooms. Cultural and linguistic diversity in U.S. schools will increase dramatically over the next twenty years. These demographic changes necessitate that all educators be prepared to facilitate learning for diverse student populations, including English language learners.
EDEC 451 - Learning Derived from Development Theories
This Curriculum and instruction course for early childhood education program is to practice with pluralistic theoretical foundations for early childhood education.
As one of the introductory courses to Early Childhood Education for undergraduate students, this class presents a foundational base of the early childhood education field, including the study of children/childhood, current practices, various roles of practitioners, environments for learning, and approaches to teaching.
EDEC 41113 - Learner-Centered Teaching: Foundations
This course explores the influence of the foundations of pedagogical thought on educational practice and policy. The class focuses on philosophers who have shaped education with their ideas. We will study selected philosophers within major schools of educational thought such as idealism, realism, pragmatism, existentialism, critical pedagogy, postmodernism, and non-Western philosophies.
EDUC 50513 - Curriculum and Instruction in the Second Language Learning Classroom
Curricular and instructional principles and practices are reviewed to meet the academic development needs of first and second language learners in the classroom. Emphasis on strategies for providing content-area instruction and establishing learner-centered environments within various ESL settings.
EDUC 50003 - Diversity in American Education
The diversity class equips educators with the necessary skills for multicultural school environments. The course focuses on developing an awareness of the connections between education and wider structures of social, cultural, and economic life; and encouraging not only critical examination but also alternatives to the present reality.
WGST 20003 - Sex, Gender, and the Disciplines
What is Women’s and Gender Studies? What, for that matter, is a woman? A man? How do cultural belief systems, unexamined assumptions, and societal institutions affect the way we answer these questions? This course is an introduction to the ways of seeing, thinking, and knowing that characterize the interdisciplinary field of Women’s and Gender Studies.
CI 185 - Principles of Social Justice in Education
This course explores the foundations of equity-based educational practices and helps students construct individual working definitions of social justice. The course includes engagement with foundational, historical, and contemporary scholarly and popular literature; guest lecturers from the University and local communities; and multimedia. Students explore tensions between theory and practical application and begin developing a language of critique for considering issues within the world of education. Progress is assessed via a variety of artifacts including self-assessment, guided journal entries, reflection upon campus and community social justice events, and written and oral research reports on a social justice topic of choice. For students interested in the Social Justice in Education minor, the course provides a conceptual foundation and skill set.
CI 280 - Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners
This course focuses on the development of foundational knowledge for teacher education students who will work with English language learners (ELLs) in their future classrooms. Cultural and linguistic diversity in U.S. schools will increase dramatically over the next twenty years. These demographic changes necessitate that all educators be prepared to facilitate learning for diverse student populations, including English language learners.
EDEC 451 - Learning Derived from Development Theories
This Curriculum and instruction course for early childhood education program is to practice with pluralistic theoretical foundations for early childhood education.
As one of the introductory courses to Early Childhood Education for undergraduate students, this class presents a foundational base of the early childhood education field, including the study of children/childhood, current practices, various roles of practitioners, environments for learning, and approaches to teaching.
EDEC 41113 - Learner-Centered Teaching: Foundations
This course explores the influence of the foundations of pedagogical thought on educational practice and policy. The class focuses on philosophers who have shaped education with their ideas. We will study selected philosophers within major schools of educational thought such as idealism, realism, pragmatism, existentialism, critical pedagogy, postmodernism, and non-Western philosophies.
EDUC 50513 - Curriculum and Instruction in the Second Language Learning Classroom
Curricular and instructional principles and practices are reviewed to meet the academic development needs of first and second language learners in the classroom. Emphasis on strategies for providing content-area instruction and establishing learner-centered environments within various ESL settings.
EDUC 50003 - Diversity in American Education
The diversity class equips educators with the necessary skills for multicultural school environments. The course focuses on developing an awareness of the connections between education and wider structures of social, cultural, and economic life; and encouraging not only critical examination but also alternatives to the present reality.
WGST 20003 - Sex, Gender, and the Disciplines
What is Women’s and Gender Studies? What, for that matter, is a woman? A man? How do cultural belief systems, unexamined assumptions, and societal institutions affect the way we answer these questions? This course is an introduction to the ways of seeing, thinking, and knowing that characterize the interdisciplinary field of Women’s and Gender Studies.
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“Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique,
good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.”
― Parker J. Palmer