printer friendly pageEDUC 364: Cognition and Learning
This course focuses on helping students to advance their knowledge of cognitive psychology and what this field can offer to understand learning and educational practice. We will discuss how people learn, understand, and remember information, and why some people seem to be better at this than others. Topics discussed include the construction of knowledge, thinking about thinking, and the motivational and affective factors that shape thinking processes. Upon successful completion of this course, you will have a deeper understanding of how learners' knowledge, motivation, and development contribute to making meaning of information and to the actions they take to learn.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Ruiz-Primo, M. (PI)
EDUC 365: Social, Emotional, and Personality Development
The story of human development across the lifespan, with an emphasis on how people acquire the capacities for mutually beneficial social relations, positive motivation, and mature self-understanding. Topics include socialization, identity, purpose, moral commitment, anti-social behavior, SEL (social and emotional learning in schools), gender, culture, self-concept, and personality. This course is a DAPS core course open to other doctoral and master's students and to advanced undergraduates with some prior coursework in human development.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Damon, W. (PI)
EDUC 366: Learning in Formal and Informal Environments
How learning opportunities are organized in schools and non-school settings including museums, after-school clubs, community art centers, theater groups, aquariums, sports teams, and new media contexts. Sociocultural theories of development as a conceptual framework. Readings from empirical journals, web publications, and books.Collaborative written or multimedia research project in which students observe and document a non-school learning environment.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Barron, B. (PI)
;
Fereday, B. (TA)
EDUC 366W: Semiotics for Ethnography (ANTHRO 366W)
This workshop-style seminar will introduce students to a range of semiotic and linguistic anthropological approaches and tools for ethnographic analysis. A group of (linguistic) anthropologists from other universities will be invited to offer workshops, through which students will learn 1. how to teach semiotics in anthropology courses and 2. how to use semiotic concepts for their own research projects.
Last offered: Winter 2019
EDUC 367: Cultural Psychology
(Formerly 292.) The relationship between culture and psychological processes; how culture becomes an integral part of cognitive, social, and moral development. Both historical and contemporary treatments of cultural psychology, including deficit models, crosscultural psychology, ecological niches, culturally specific versus universal development, sociocultural frameworks, and minority child development. The role of race and power in research on cultural psychology. Course is designed to meet the interests of doctoral students. Enrollment of undergraduate seniors considered; course content not appropriate for freshman, sophomore, nor junior undergraduates.
Last offered: Autumn 2019
EDUC 368: Cognitive Development in Childhood and Adolescence
This course aims to broaden and deepen students' understanding of cognitive development from the prenatal period through adolescence. It will examine various theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues pertaining to different domains of cognitive development, such as neurobiological plasticity, infant cognition, theory of mind, memory, language, and executive functions. Throughout the course, as we survey research findings, we will discuss (1) methods that researchers have employed in their study of cognitive development; (2) limitations of current research and directions for future research; and (3) translation of research findings for practitioners and policymakers.
Last offered: Spring 2023
EDUC 370: Parenting and Family Relationships in Childhood
This course will focus on the relevance of parenting and family relationships for children's development. We will examine studies of: (1) how parental and child behaviors contribute to sensitivity, responsiveness, scaffolding, autonomy, and control within the dyad; (2) parents role in socializing children's emotions and their ethnic/racial identity; and (3) parents involvement in early education. We will discuss cultural and economic factors affecting our conceptualization, measurement, and interpretations of parents' behaviors and their interactions with their children.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Obradovic, J. (PI)
EDUC 371: Social Psychology and Social Change (PSYCH 265)
The course is intended as an exploration of the major ideas, theories, and findings of social psychology and their applied status. Special attention will be given to historical issues, classic experiments, and seminal theories, and their implications for topics relevant to education. Contemporary research will also be discussed. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students from other disciplines are welcome, but priority for enrollment will be given to graduate students. In order to foster a vibrant, discussion-based class, enrollment will be capped at 20 students. Interested students should enroll in the class through simple enroll or axess. There will be an application process on the first day of class if there is overwhelming interest.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-3
Instructors:
Cohen, G. (PI)
;
Juarez, S. (TA)
EDUC 372: African American Child and Adolescent Mental Health: An Ecological Approach (AFRICAAM 272, CSRE 372, PSYCH 261)
African American children and adolescents face a number of challenges (e.g., racism, discrimination, lack of access to resources, community violence) that can impact their mental health. Yet, they possess and utilize many strengths in the face of challenge and adversity. This seminar will explore the most salient historical, social, cultural, and ecological factors that influence the mental health and resilience of African American youth, with attention to contextual determinants that shape mental health. Applying an ecological systems approach, the course will focus on how families, schools, and communities are integral to youth's adjustment and well-being. By utilizing a culturally specific and context based lens in analyzing empirical, narrative, and visual content, students will better understand factors that can promote or inhibit the mental health and resilience of African American children and adolescents across development.
Last offered: Spring 2023
EDUC 373: Genetics and Society (SOC 232)
This course will focus on social science engagement with developments in genetic research, focusing on two key issues. First, social scientists are trying to figure out how genetic data can be used to help them better understand phenomena they have been long endeavoring to understand. Second, social scientists try to improve understanding of how social environments moderate, amplify, or attenuate genetic influences on outcomes.
Last offered: Spring 2017
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
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