4003 Partnerships: Working with Parents and Community. Prerequisite: admission to Teacher Education program and senior status or permission of instructor. Approaches for working with parents, guardians, and the community. Primary content for the on-campus and 30 hours field experience components includes: history of parental and community involvement in schools, interaction/communication skills, types of parental and guardian involvement, diversity of families, emerging trends, and legal implications. (F, Sp)
4043 Teaching Diverse Populations. Prerequisite: EDEL 4101; corequisites: EDLT 4313, EDMA 4053, EDSC 4193, and EDSS 4323, or EDEN 4913, or EDMA 4242. Open only to elementary, English, and mathematics education majors. Development of a multicultural perspective to teaching including an understanding of theoretical frameworks, methods, and experiences working with culturally diverse populations. (F, Sp)
G5003 Models of Instruction. Prerequisite: completion of undergraduate teacher education. Students will study teaching models and their strategies intended to improve abilities to analyze student-teacher interactions and to increase teacher effectiveness as instructor and manager in a variety of educational situations. (F, Sp)
G5043 Analysis of Teaching and Learning. Prerequisite: graduate standing; corequisite: EDUC 5920 (Internship). An understanding of how to analyze teaching and learning using a variety of reflective techniques including journals, oral inquiries, classroom/school studies, and theoretical analysis. (F, Sp)
G5133 Multicultural Art Education. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Creative expression explores the arts as means of social critique, self expression, and identity development. We consider implications both for teaching and learning. (Sp)
G5143 Theory and Research in Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. An introduction to the processes and products of educational research such as stages in designing a study, introduction to research methods, identification of the components of a research-based article. Develops critical consumers of educational research. (F, Sp, Su)
G5233 Understanding Different Cultures. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Provides information on cultural styles and characteristics of various ethnic and economic groups with emphasis on how teachers can understand and honor differences and similarities and adjust their teaching in order to be effective with a variety of students and families. (F)
G6003 Curriculum Theory. Prerequisite: admittance to Instructional Leadership & Academic Curriculum doctoral program. Supports five core themes: scholarly discourse; philosophical thinking/intellectual curiosity; the praxis of curriculum and instruction; democracy, diversity, and community; research knowledge, skills, and attitudes. (F)
G6013 Proseminar in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum. Prerequisite: admittance to Instructional Leadership & Academic Curriculum doctoral program. Required for new doctoral students, to be taken in sequence with 6023. Intended to introduce students to interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and specialization studies in the field; university educators and fellow students; and the ethos of doctoral study and the academy. (F)
G6023 Theoretical Issues in Instructional Leadership. Prerequisite: admittance to Instructional Leadership & Academic Curriculum doctoral program. Required for new ILAC doctoral students, to be taken in sequence with 6013. Focus on important theoretical issues which impact the research, curriculum, and practice of schools and other educational agencies. (Sp)
G6033 Critical Research Paradigms and Approaches. Prerequisite: admission to Ph.D. program or permission of instructor. Compares research paradigms and epistemologies and examines critical and transformative research approaches. (Irreg.)
Updated: November 5, 2009