printer friendly pageEDUC 269X: The Ethics in Teaching
Goal is to prepare for the ethical problems teachers confront in their professional lives. Skills of ethical reasoning, familiarity with ethical concepts, and how to apply these skills and concepts in the analysis of case studies. Topics: ethical responsibility in teaching, freedom of speech and academic freedom, equality and difference, indoctrination, and the teaching of values.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Callan, E. (PI)
EDUC 271X: Education Policy in the United States
The course will provide students from different disciplines with an understanding of the broad educational policy context. The course will cover topics including a) school finance systems; b) an overview of policies defining and shaping the sectors and institutional forms of schooling, c) an overview of school governance, d) educational human-resource policy, e) school accountability policies at the federal and state levels; and f) school assignment policies and law, including intra- and inter-district choice policies, desegregation law and policy.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Loeb, S. (PI)
EDUC 273: Gender and Higher Education: National and International Perspectives (EDUC 173, FEMST 173, SOC 173, SOC 273)
This course examines the ways in which higher education structures and policies affect females, males, and students in relation to each other and how changes in those structures and policies improve experiences for females and males similarly or differently. Students are expected to gain an understanding of theories and perspectives from the social sciences relevant to an understanding of the role of higher education in relation to structures of gender differentiation and hierarchy. Topics include undergraduate and graduate education; identity and sexuality; gender and science; gender and faculty; and the development of feminist scholarship and pedagogy. Attention is paid to how these issues are experienced by women and men in the United States, including people of color, and by academics throughout the world, and how these have changed over time.
Last offered: Spring 2013
EDUC 274X: School Choice: The Role of Charter Schools
(Formerly
EDUC 153X.) Is school choice, including vouchers, charter schools, contract schools, magnet schools, district options, and virtual schools, a threat or an opportunity for public education? Focus is on the charter school movement nationally and in California as reform strategy. Roles and responsibilities of charter schools emphasizing issues of governance, finance, curriculum, standards, and accountability.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Carnoy, M. (PI)
;
Kushner, M. (PI)
EDUC 276: Educational Assessment
Reliability, validity, bias, fairness, and properties of test scores. Uses of tests to monitor, manage, and reform instruction. Testing and competition, meritocracy, achievement gaps, and explanations for group differences.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Haertel, E. (PI)
EDUC 277: Education of Immigrant Students: Psychological Perspectives
Historical and contemporary approaches to educating immigrant students. Case study approach focuses on urban centers to demonstrate how stressed urban educational agencies serve immigrants and native-born U.S. students when confronted with overcrowded classrooms, controversy over curriculum, current school reform movements, and government policies regarding equal educational opportunity.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Padilla, A. (PI)
EDUC 278: Introduction to Issues in Evaluation
Open to master's and doctoral students with priority to students in the School of Education. Focus is on the basic literature and major theoretical and practical issues in the field of program evaluation. Topics include: defining purpose, obtaining credible evidence, the role of the evaluator, working with stakeholder, values in evaluation, utilization, and professional standards. The course project is to design an evaluation for a complex national or international program selected by the instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Porteus, A. (PI)
EDUC 281X: Technology for Learners
How can we use technology to improve learning? Many hope that technology will make learning easier, faster, or accessible to more learners. This course explores a variety of different approaches to designing tools for learning, the theories behind them, and the research that tests their effectiveness. Topics include feedback, visualization, games, multimedia, tangible-digital interfaces, simulations, and more. Students will work on teams to identify a need, create a prototype, and design tests to understand its impact.nnSpace is limited. Priority is given to masters students in Education and to masters / upper-level students in Human Computer Interaction.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Forssell, K. (PI)
EDUC 283: Child Development In and Beyond Schools
(Formerly
EDUC 144). How schools form a context for children's social and cognitive development. Focus is on early and middle childhood. Transactional processes between children and learning opportunities in classroom contexts. Topics include: alternative theoretical perspectives on the nature of child development; early experience and fit with traditional school contexts; assessment practices and implications for developing identities as learners; psychological conceptions of motivational processes and alternative perspectives; the role of peer relationships in schools; and new designs for learning environments. Readings address social science and methodological issues. STEP Elementary only.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Hill-Bonnet, L. (PI)
;
Stipek, D. (PI)
EDUC 283X: Practicum in English-Spanish School & Community Interpreting (CHILATST 183X, EDUC 183X)
This practicum will assist students in developing a set of skills in English-Spanish interpreting that will prepare them to provide interpretation services in school and community settings. The course will build students' abilities to transfer intended meanings between two or more monolingual individuals of who are physically present in a school or community setting and who must communicate with each other for professional (and personal) purposes.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
Instructors:
Valdes, G. (PI)
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