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1.00 Credits
Provides systematic treatment of the psychological, biological, and sociocultural nature of the adolescent. Both an individual and a collective perspective on the nature of the adolescent and adolescence are used to provide an analytical and comprehensive understanding of the complex environment and psyche of the adolescent. Readings include theoretical and empirical papers from such areas as psychology, sociology, anthropology, and education.
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1.00 Credits
Internationally, informal learning figures centrally from early childhood through the lifespan. Voluntarily chosen areas of expertise, societally necessary tasks, and interpersonal relationships lead individuals, corporations, and communities to undertake informal education. Central to this course is examination of major means and conditions of such learning in international contexts through four primary themes - play, everyday science, social entrepreneurship, and community collaborations.
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1.00 Credits
This course will explore theories of community-based learning and engaged scholarship within the context of higher education. The course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the possibilities in the teaching and learning exchange to address significant social concerns.
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1.00 Credits
Focuses on the social construction of race, class, and gender and how this construction influences an individual's perception of self and other individuals. Topics include identity development, achievement, motivation, and sociopolitical development. Prerequisites: EDUC 0800, 1270 or 1710. Enrollment limited to 30. WRIT
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1.00 Credits
Seeks both to demystify the process of teaching and to illuminate its complexities. Assists students with such questions as: What shall I teach? How shall I teach it? Will my students respond? What if I have a discipline problem? Focuses on the teaching-learning process and student behavior, as well as research, theory, and illustrations concerned with classroom applications of psychological principles and ideas. Prerequisites: EDUC 0800 or EDUC 1710. Enrollment limited to 50.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Focus on role of culture in child development, infancy to young adulthood. Reviews contemporary theories and empirical research to examine various age periods and domains of development. Major topics: infant care, parenting, socialization, gender roles, cognition, moral development, affect, adolescence, and education and schooling in formal and informal settings. Enrollment limited to 50.
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1.00 Credits
This course offers an "analytical foundation" for students interested in public policy implementation, with particular emphasis on education. Drawing on social science research, the course examines strengths and limitations of several frameworks, including the "policy typology" school of thought, the rational actor paradigm, the institutional analysis, the bargain model, the organizational-bureaucratic model, and the "consumer choice" perspective. WRIT
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1.00 Credits
An examination of child development from a historical and theoretical perspective, including key historical figures such as Darwin, Hall, Baldwin, Binet, Freud, Watson, Piaget, Vygotsky, Gesell, McGraw, Bowlby, and Bayley. Explores theoretical conceptualizations of children and adolescents and investigates the representations of children in popular culture, governmental legislation, education, and public policy.
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1.00 Credits
A study of 350 years of American higher education. The first part traces the growth and development of American higher education from premodern college to the modern research university. The second part examines issues facing higher education today and places them in historical context. Particular attention is given to: the evolution of curriculum; professionalization; and the often competing priorities of teaching, research and service.
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1.00 Credits
Inside and outside the classroom--for professors, students, administrators, and others--academic freedom has been contested by forces external and internal to the university. This course focuses on challenges to and changes in the definition and application of "academic freedom" from the end of the 19th century to the present day, with particular attention to academic freedom during times of crisis, especially wartime, and includes consideration of current issues such as speech codes, corporate and government funding of research, and the place of religion on campus. Enrollment limited to 40. WRIT
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