This course provides an overview of research and practices related to working with families in the educational contexts of young children. Methods for developing positive partnerships between educational institutions and families are explored.

Examines current issues confronting institutions of higher education and their policy implications. Using tools of social scientists, students and faculty will identify prevailing viewpoints, problems and opportunities associated with issues as well as response strategies and their implications.

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This course exposes undergraduate students to the complex systems that connect schools and juvenile and adult prisons, with a particular emphasis on the links between diversity and incarceration.

Prepracticum experience in ECE settings

Examines how erroneous beliefs form and why they survive. Builds skills to reveal their shaky foundations and fight their harmful consequences. Analyzes beliefs relating to health, the environment, sports, and social structures, including the American race-based caste system. Introduces statistical and research design concepts. Analysis emphasized; minimal calculations. Counts as a Foundations course toward the Education minor. Team-based learning. (Gen.Ed. R2)

This course provides an introduction to statistical reasoning with a focus on educational contexts. You will learn how to reason from uncertain empirical data (as is often the case when dealing with school/classroom data) and how to apply this general and fundamental intellectual method in the social sciences. You will also learn how to use a variety of tools (SPSS, Excel, and TI-83 Plus) to perform data analysis on personal computers and to interpret and write results sections based on the analyses. (Gen. Ed. R2)

This course is designed to introduce students to the role of culture in education. After exploring the theoretical basis of culture, and its relationship to education, students will be exposed to a range of cultural perspectives from Africa, Asia and Latin America. (Gen.Ed. SB, DG)

This course investigates major contemporary educational issues that affect the lives of teachers and students in today's classrooms. It explores the complex web of issues that children, families, and educators face in our diverse society. (Gen Ed SB)

This course explores the relationship between hip hop culture and language and literacy practices of global youth cultures. We will look at this relationship in school and out-of-school contexts. (Gen. Ed. SB, DG)