printer friendly pageEDUC 312B: Microsociology: Social Structure and Interaction (SOC 224B)
How to interpret interpersonal situations using microsociological theories. Focuses on the role of intention, identity, routines, scripts, rituals, conceptual frameworks, talk and emotions in social interaction. Processes by which interactions reverberate outward to transform groups and social structures. Special consideration will be placed on organizational contexts like schools, workplaces and policy decision arenas.
EDUC 313X: The Education of American Jews (JEWISHST 393X, RELIGST 313X)
This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how American Jews negotiate the desire to retain a unique ethnic sensibility without excluding themselves from American culture more broadly. Students will examine the various ways in which people debate, deliberate, and determine what it means to be an "American Jew". This includes an investigation of how American Jewish relationships to formal and informal educational encounters through school, popular culture, religious ritual, and politics.
EDUC 315X: Race and Ethnicity in Society and Institutions (SOC 347)
Primarily for doctoral students. Major theories and empirical research. Emphasis is on schooling and race, racial identity, urban issues, and the impact of immigration on race relations.
EDUC 317X: Workshop: Networks, Histories, and Theories of Action (SOC 317W)
Yearlong workshop where doctoral students are encouraged to collaborate with peers and faculty who share an interest in researching the network dynamics, histories and theories of action that help explain particular social phenomena. Students present their own research and provide helpful feedback on others' work. Presentations may concern dissertation proposals, grants, article submissions, book proposals, datasets, methodologies and other texts. Repeatable for credit.
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EDUC 321: Analysis of Social Interaction
Practicum on discourse, interactional, and cultural analysis of videotaped data. Analysis of interactional data, and the basis on which analytic claims can be founded. The transcription of speech and movement in social interaction, and how to identify the patterns which participants use to display and interpret cultural meanings. The theoretical assumptions hidden in transcription systems. Prerequisite: first- or second-year graduate student.
EDUC 321X: Leading Social Change: Educational and Social Entrepreneurship (OB 385)
(Same as
OB 385) The course provides an overview of different approaches to leading change in the social sector, drawing primarily, but not exclusively, on case examples in education. While there is a substantial need for innovation and visionary leadership in sectors such as education, social entrepreneurs who want to drive change must appreciate the significant barriers and unique opportunities presented by non-market forces in these sectors. The course will equip students with an appreciation for different mechanisms of change and theories of action as well as some of the challenges of initiating and sustaining meaningful change in social sectors such as education. nnThe course will draw on readings and case studies, and we will benefit from the wisdom of an inspirational group of guest lecturers. While the course will benefit any student concerned with making a positive impact in the world, it is particularly (although not exclusively) appropriate for students in the joint MA/MBA program as well as those who will lead social change through nonprofit consulting or entrepreneurship.
EDUC 326: Law, Litigation, and Educational Policy
Same as
LAW 364. Restricted to Education graduate students and Law students. Interplay among educational law and policy, administrative decision making, and practice. Issues include the relationship between schooling and the state, nature and scope of students' substantive and procedural rights inside the schoolhouse, and how law and litigation have advanced or stymied the goal of equality of educational opportunity.
EDUC 327A: The Conduct of Qualitative Inquiry (SOC 331)
Two quarter sequence for doctoral students to engage in research that anticipates, is a pilot study for, or feeds into their dissertations. Prior approval for dissertation study not required. Students engage in common research processes including: developing interview questions; interviewing; coding, analyzing, and interpreting data; theorizing; and writing up results. Participant observation as needed. Preference to students who intend to enroll in 327C.
EDUC 327C: The Conduct of Qualitative Inquiry
For doctoral students. Students bring research data for analysis and writing. Preference to those who have completed 327A.
EDUC 329X: Seminar on Teacher Professional Development
For master's and doctoral students. Theories, principles, and models of professional development. Issues include: different conceptions of teaching, practice, and development; what gets developed in professional development; pedagogies of professional development; structures to support teacher learning; evaluating professional development; and policy issues.
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