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Basic principles of development & explication of theory about organization. Survey of theories on the structure & design of organizations, with emphasis on application of theories & concepts to educational organizations.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Explores the nature, causes and consequences of racial-ethnic, social, and economic inequalities in children’s lives and how policies affect inequalities in children’s health, education, and economic well-being. Students examine philosophical rationales for policy action; historical trends that influence inequalities in development; the role of science and participatory/democratic processes in increasing the effectiveness of programs and policies affecting children; and challenges to improving programs and policies, thereby reducing inequalities.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Educational Leaders work in public & private schools & universities, as well as in social agencies, unions, community organizations, policy organizations, & educational think tanks. Increasingly, educational advocates need to understand how to collaborate with others to achieve their goals through collective &/or community action. In this course, we examine how social movements & advocacy organizations have influenced policy & practice in educational institutions. How do these organizations mobilize to achieve their purpose? This course examines the strategies & tactics that successful advocates use to organize constituencies & achieve their purposes.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course examines critical issues related to contemporary K–12 teacher policies and labor movements, focusing on factors affecting the equitable distribution of teachers, the fundamentals of modern teacher policy reforms, and the political and social conditions underlying recent teacher labor movements. Students leave this course with a strong overview of current teacher policy and labor market issues as well as an in-depth examination of a focus area they select.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Course is designed to introduce students to public policy & provide a foundation for understanding & assessing education policies in particular. Students will examine the theoretical perspectives in policy as well as examine the policy process & the institutions under which policies are formed, specifically the difference between market systems & the role of government. Fourth, the methods & tools for policy analysis, both before & after policies are implemented will be studied. Finally, students will examine the role of institutions as well as policy design. Topics may include No Child Left Behind, financial aid for higher education, tax reforms to encourage saving for college, school reform in major cities, poverty & inequality, among others.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Minority-serving institutions (i.e., historically Black colleges and universities, Tribal colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, and Asian-serving institutions) all play a significant, but under-examined role in American higher education. This course covers the development and evolution of these institutions in the context of American higher education both historically and more contemporarily. This course will emphasize the characteristics of MSIs based on their political and racialized origins, student populations, funding schemes, governance and leadership.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Analysis of the relationship between higher education & the development of political policy, with particular attention to both federal & state interest in university activities; impact of federal aid on the structure & development of universities & colleges; emergence of academic interest groups on the national & state levels & their role in shaping higher education policy.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Basic behavioral science principles applied to the study of education as a social institution. An examination of social pressures and conflicts that underlie controversies in the field of education. Inequality, innovation, organizational control are some areas to be studied.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

This course examines the meaning and study of culture through a sociological lens. The first goal of this course is to provide a solid, introductory grounding in some of the many ways in which the term culture has been used in the study of societies. The second goal is to raise questions about the relationship between culture and structures and to provide analytical tools to understand institutions (like schools) as sites of culture-building and cultural struggle.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Covers foundation knowledge of special education and eligibility for educational services across disabilities. Examines historical, social, and cultural practices and beliefs about disability, legal foundations of U.S. education policy for students with disabilities, and patterns of inclusion in home, community, and schools. Focus on issues and trends affecting the diverse U.S. population, equity, and access to education and related services for students with disabilities. Teacher development through observations of individualized and collaborative service models.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course builds statistical and analytic skills in advanced causal inference techniques, focusing on advanced topics and applications in regression discontinuity designs and in matching estimators. We go in depth with the theory, assumptions and plausibility checks, applications, recent advances, combinations of these designs with other techniques, and complications of the designs. Students learn advanced techniques hands-on, and produce a journal-quality manuscript by the end of the semester.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

The course provides students with the software skills and theoretical knowledge required to apply latent construct measurement techniques in R. The course assumes a working knowledge of R, linear regression, and basic probability. Continuous and categorical latent variables, dimensionality reduction, clustering, and finite mixture and diagnostic classification models are covered. The course focuses on cross-sectional applications of measurement techniques, with examples drawn from education, psychology, social science.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

This course is designed to serve as a bridge between introductory statistics/econometrics and practical work with real, large-scale databases. The analytic skills taught in this course are broadly applicable to research in education, education policy, and the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Emphasis throughout the course is on hands-on data preparation, workflow, and modeling using the Stata statistical software package.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Practical course designed to acquaint the student with research design & methodology in order to facilitate an understanding of research in the administration of educational organizations. Focuses on critical evaluation of research studies & comparative assessment of organizational analyses.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course explores the connection between language teaching observation and reflective practice. Students observe language teaching in 30+ hours of fieldwork in a variety of local educational settings. Students connect field observations to seminar discussions, presentations, and reports.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course explores theory, policy, and practice of bilingual and multilingual experiences and education models in the U.S. and global contexts. Emphasis is on intersections of language and other identities (race, class, gender, etc), and systems of power and privilege. Topics include home language support, language/literacy teaching for developmentally and linguistically diverse students, and the various roles and responsibilities of educators and professionals working with multilingual communities.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course explores instructional approaches and resources appropriate for multilingual learners in elementary and secondary classrooms. Students develop skills in curriculum-, unit- and lesson-planning, and creating a safe and inclusive classroom environment. Concrete tools for working in the classroom are explored via frameworks such as culturally-sustaining pedagogy, sociocultural approaches to learning, and communicative language teaching.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Investigates issues and research in the linguistic theory to educational problems. Distinguishes between traditional (common sense) and progressive (uncommon sense) approaches to such issues as language and gender, language and learning, literacy as a sociocultural phenomenon.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Foundation method course for students who are learning to teach English as Second/Foreign Language. Course contents include: guiding principles and methodology in a variety of approaches to the teaching of second languages, specifically in developing auditory comprehension and oral production, teaching reading and writing; impact of culture, heritage, socioeconomic level and educational background on language and literacy development as well as human development processes and variations. Also included are skills in motivation, communication, and classroom management.

• Department: Teaching and Learning