Educational Foundations (EDFN)
EDFN 5010 - Social Foundations and Cultural Diversity in Urban Education (3 Credits)
This course focuses on the role of cultural diversity in the United States school system and what this means for educators oriented toward social justice. The intention of this course is to have teacher candidates engage in exploring the most salient issues surrounding education in the United States, developing an understanding of the complex relationships between schools and the larger society of which they are a part. This course closely examines important contemporary and historical societal issues such as race, social class, gender, ethnicity, sexual identity, politics, and dynamics of power and privilege. Cross-listed with EDFN 4010.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
EDFN 5050 - Critical Issues in American Education (3 Credits)
Examines the social values and forces in American society which shape or influence the aims, philosophies, methods, content, and problems of the American educational enterprise.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
EDFN 5464 - Methods Teachg Social Studies (3 Credits)
EDFN 5700 - Global Education and 21st Century Learning (3 Credits)
Explore challenges and opportunities of global citizenship. Articulate framework for 21st Century Learner. Examine influence of social and political movements, including colonization, on the development of communities and cultures. Explore connections and intersections of local and global issues and systems.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
EDFN 5800 - Special Topics (1-3 Credits)
Topics will vary. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.
EDFN 7240 - Culture of Education Policy (3 Credits)
This course examines major issues in education policy analysis. Students will be required to critically analyze an educational policy issue uncovering the context, determining how the policy was implemented and what the outcomes were, intended as well as unintended.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
EDFN 7250 - School and Society (3 Credits)
Policies and educational reforms affecting the technical core of schooling: curriculum, teaching, learning, assessment, and organization. Students develop research and policy analysis skills and investigate social and political factors affecting what is taught and learned in schools.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Restriction: Restricted to EDHD-PhD, LDRE-EDd, EDLI-PhD and SPSY-PsyD majors within the School of Education and Human Development.
EDFN 7400 - Epistemologies: Ways Knowing, Res Paradigms, & Counter-Epistemologies (3 Credits)
Epistemologies addresses conceptions and approaches to ways of knowing including intellectual traditions and their history as well as epistemological counter-stories of marginalized and subaltern ways of knowing that expose the contingency and bias of dominant forms of knowing.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
EDFN 7410 - Power and Privilege: The Social Construction of Difference (3 Credits)
This course will focus on understanding culture and diversity, recognizing the role of power and privilege in both individual and institutional interactions, and developing a philosophy of social justice and equity.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Restriction: Restricted to EDHD-PhD, LDRE-EDd, EDLI-PhD and SPSY-PsyD majors within the School of Education and Human Development.
EDFN 7420 - Foundations of Education in Urban and Diverse Communities (3 Credits)
This course focuses on the complex relationship between schools and the larger society of which they are a part. Emphasizing historical, political, and sociological perspectives, this course explores the interplay of social systems in education (economic, political, social, health, legal), analyze education policies, and the intended and unintended consequences of these processes.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Restriction: Restricted to Leadership for Educ Equity or Education Human Development Doctoral Students
EDFN 7430 - Working with Families and Communities (3 Credits)
Designed for veteran and novice teachers and administrators to add to their present understanding of the function of families and communities in contemporary society. Participants examine key theoretical texts of important scholars in the field of human development, with an emphasis on topics such as the politics of everyday life, the salience of linguistic & cultural identity in the life of families/communities, and the political-economic and social factors that shape the "life course" of families/communities.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Restriction: Restricted to EDHD-PhD, LDRE-EDd, EDLI-PhD and SPSY-PsyD majors within the School of Education and Human Development.
EDFN 7500 - Critical Race Theory for Justice, Equity, and Diverse Identities (3 Credits)
Students will gain knowledge of the basic tenets of CRT and its early origins, in addition to understanding how spin-off movements developed. Students will explore other branches of CRT that more closely align with the Justice, Equity, and Diverse Identities and populations they are likely to partner with in their future research.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Restriction: Restricted to LDRE EDd majors within the School of Education and Human Development
EDFN 7520 - Flipping the Script: Liberatory Scholarship and Activism by the Global Majority (3 Credits)
In this course, we will contextualize the history and social movements of communities of the Global Majority in North America. Learning from the stories and experiences of activist leaders and scholars within our communities, students will conduct a case study using decolonized methodologies to learn about educational and/or social justice movements. Code: LDRE-EDD JDI_Online
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Restricted to School of Education and Human Development students in the EdD JEDI concentration.
Code: LDRE-EDD JDI_Online
EDFN 7530 - Advanced Thesis Writing for the DRP (3 Credits)
In this course, students will receive scaffolded instruction and feedback as they workshop chapter 1 of their DRP proposal and outline chapters 2 and 3 for their proposal defense.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
EDFN 7540 - DRP Proposal Preparation and Defense (3 Credits)
In this course, students will receive scaffolded instruction and feedback as they workshop chapters 2 and 3 of their DRP proposal 2 and prepare for their proposal defense and QI/COMIRB proposals (as necessary).
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Requires prerequisite course of EDFN 7530.
EDFN 7800 - Critical Disability Studies in Global and Indigenous Contexts (3 Credits)
This course examines disability as a social, political, and cultural construct through critical, decolonial, and intersectional frameworks. Students engage with Indigenous disability studies, global perspectives, and historical contexts while exploring interconnections between colonialism, race, gender, sexuality, and disability.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
EDFN 7833 - Culture and Critical Theory (3 Credits)
Provides an introduction to critical inquiry. General topics include: the development and of the concept of culture, the development and application of critical theory, critical race theory and critical pedagogy. Through the course, students are guided to explore critical theory work in their own field.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Restriction: Restricted to EDHD-PhD, LDRE-EDd, EDLI-PhD and SPSY-PsyD majors within the School of Education and Human Development.
EDFN 7840 - Independent Study: EDFN (1-4 Credits)
Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.