Fall 2023

Course Code Title/Instructor Meets
EDST 120-01 Contemporary Issues in American Education
Instructor: Jacquie Forbes
Course Description:
An examination of current policies, practices, and problems in the landscape of American education with particular attention to the perspectives of various stakeholders (e.g. teachers, students, families, community leaders, employers, and elected officials). U.S. diversity with respect to race, class, gender, language, and exceptionality is considered within a variety of educational contexts. The course also examines the ways in which educational issues and reform efforts intersect with social, economic, political, and cultural forces.
03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TR
DENNY 104
EDST 140-01 Educational Psychology
Instructor: Dan Campbell
Course Description:
An examination of physical, cognitive, and psychological developmental theories and research as well as theories of learning. The course includes theoretical perspectives on: age-stage characteristics, exceptionality, achievement versus aptitude, as well as how developmental, sociocultural, and motivational factors influence student learning in classroom contexts.
04:31 PM-05:46 PM, MW
TOME 115
EDST 250-01 Curriculum Theory
Instructor: Kirk Anderson
Course Description:
An examination of how the curriculum of educational institutions is shaped as well as how curriculum serves as a shaping force for educational institutions. This includes an examination of various conceptions of curriculum and of knowledge as well as curriculum ideologies and structures. Finally, the course examines how diverse student populations may experience the curriculum.Prerequisites: 120 or 130, and 140.
10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 110
EDST 260-01 Introduction to Educational Research
Instructor: Jacquie Forbes
Course Description:
An introduction to the purposes and methodologies of research in education including how various stakeholders in the educational community use and access research findings as well as how studies in education are designed, implemented, and disseminated. Quantitative, qualitative, and historical methodologies are addressed. Research processes are introduced around the topic of literacy. Students will develop a review of the research literature on a topic related to literacy using online catalogs, databases, and other open access resources to find and gather sources and digital publications formats to disseminate their reviews. Prerequisite: 140.
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TR
EASTC 112
EDST 300-01 Models of Instruction and Assessment
Instructor: Michael Bogdan
Course Description:
An introduction to instructional planning and assessment with a particular emphasis on meeting the needs of diverse learners. Primary activities of the course include designing and implementing lesson plans, designing assessment instruments, and designing an integrated unit of instruction. Students will learn to effectively use presentation technologies as well as instructional software and new media to enhance their instruction. Prerequisites: 140, and 260 or Social Science Research Methods (AFST 200, AMST 202, ANTH 240, ANTH 241, EASN 310, ECON 228, LAWP 228, PMGT 228, POSC 239, PSYC 211, SOCI 240, SOCI 244, or WGSS 200), or permission of instructor.
03:30 PM-06:00 PM, T
ALTHSE 109
EDST 310-01 Policies Shaping American Education
Instructor: Jacquie Forbes
Course Description:
An examination of the policies that have shaped and continue to shape American Education within the broader context of American educational reform movements. Particular policy(ies) of focus each semester will be selected by the instructor. The course might include an in-depth examination of a particular policy such as school funding. Or, it might examine several policies around a broader concept such as inclusion which could include desegregation, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Title IX, and policies related to English Language Learners. Prerequisites: 120 or 130, and 260 or Social Science Research Methods (AFST 200, AMST 202, ANTH 240, ANTH 241, EASN 310, ECON 228, LAWP 228, PMGT 228, POSC 239, PSYC 211, SOCI 240, SOCI 244, or WGSS 200), or permission of instructor.
09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 304
EDST 391-01 Foucault
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LAWP 290-02, PHIL 261-02 and SOCI 230-01.Michel Foucault was perhaps the most influential social thinker of the late 20th century. His arguments about the panopticon, historical epistemes, the medical gaze, governmentality, sexuality, and power now permeate the social sciences and humanities. He once wrote, Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. These words will inform our semester of reading and discussing a variety of his primary works, including Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality, v.1, as well as some of his lectures and interviews. While our primary focus in this WID course will be Foucaults work itself, we will read a small selection of secondary literature that explicates and critiques some of his arguments.
12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 304
EDST 391-02 Classical Sociological Theory
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SOCI 330-01.This course will examine alternative ways of understanding the human being, society, and culture as they have been presented in classical sociological theory (through 1925). It will focus on the theoretical logic of accounting for simple and complex forms of social life, interactions between social processes and individual and group identities, major and minor changes in society and culture, and the linkages between intimate and large-scale human experience. Prerequisite: 110 and one additional course in sociology, or permission of instructor. Offered every fall.
03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 303
EDST 391-03 Indigenous Peoples and Federal Boarding Schools in the United States
Instructor: John Truden
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 200-05 and HIST 211-01. Between 1879 and 1980, the United States government operated a system of boarding schools designed to eradicate Indigenous cultures while also profiteering from child labor. While largely absent from the public discourse until recently, the traumas wrought by this system is still playing out in Indigenous communities across the United States. In our class, we will examine the origins, goals, impact, and legacy of federal off-reservation boarding schools, by ruminating on the experiences of Indigenous shaped by that system.
09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 303
EDST 500-01 The Road to Success
Instructor: Jacquie Forbes
Course Description: