Highlighted Courses for Education

Take a look at these unique courses for graduate students in our Education programs! These courses are a great way to get started in a graduate program, take classes for professional development, or fulfill curriculum requirements or electives.

• ED 5500     ST: Teaching Women's History with Kelsie Eckert
  • This course will teach practicing educators to undo male centrism in K-12 social studies. Providing a wealth of practical examples, ideas, and lesson plans – all backed by scholarly research – for secondary and middle school classes, this course demonstrates how teachers can weave women’s history into their curriculum today. It breaks down how history is taught currently, how teachers are prepared, and what expectations are set in state standards and textbooks and then shows how teachers can use pedagogical approaches to better incorporate women’s voices into each of these realms. Each week will explore a major barrier to teaching an inclusive history and how to overcome it.

• LM 5050     Media Literacy: Information Agency for Digital Citizens with Dr. Pam Harland
  • This eight-week asynchronous online course will develop critical thinking skills to enable educators and learners to better identify reliable information found on the Internet, in news reports, and on social media to become better informed about the world in which we live. The course will prepare educators to distinguish fact from fiction and teach that skill to K-12 learners. The course takes a dialectical perspective that focuses on both theory and practice. Offered spring/summer semesters.
• SE 5600     Language & Learning Disabilities with Dr. Esther Kennedy 
  • This introductory course will cover the following areas: definition of LD, reading problems, language deficits both oral and written, mathematics underachievement, social skills deficits, attention and behavioral problems, academic achievement, and comorbidity with other disabilities, prevalence, environmental factors, standardized, criterion referenced, informal reading, curriculum-based measurement, and testing. Educational approaches such as explicit instruction, content enhancement, and placement alternatives will be explored. Current issues and future trends in the field of LD will be discussed.
• SE 5765     Working with Families and Children: Ethical and Legal Issues with Dr. Sara Scribner
  • Focuses on the ethics of special education laws, regulations and policies. Students will use case studies that pose ethical dilemmas in order to understand the complex issues underlying such issues as inclusion, labeling, IDEA, least restrictive environment (LSE) compliance, due process, parent involvement, awareness of ethical responsibilities, ethical decision making, confidentiality, record keeping, and informed consent. The spirit versus the letter and the morality of special education will also be explored. A special focus will be on transacting an ethic of care in school best practices that promote democratic decision making, advocacy, and the empowerment of parents.

Check out the full schedule of courses here!

Please talk with your academic advisor before registering to be sure classes will work in your academic program.