Courses
C&T 4002 Curriculum Theory & History
This course offers different theoretical lenses to understand the overall educational significance of the curriculum, focusing especially upon interdisciplinary themes as well as the relations among curriculum, the individual, and society, and connects those lenses to the everyday practice of educators.
C&T 4005 Principles of teaching and learning
This course engages students in an examination of the principles of teaching, learning, and assessment; the philosophy, history, and politics of the American curriculum; the influence of foundational assumptions about schooling on global patterns in education; and teaching as a profession of social justice inquiry and reflection.
C&T 4032 Gender, difference, and curriculum
This course offers a multifaceted, interdisciplinary introduction to thinking about school curricula, policies, and practices as gendered. Gender will not be considered in isolation but as interwoven and complicated with cultural, racial, religious, class, and sexual identities, among others. The course materials will move beyond the identification of the problems to examine various efforts to create gender-sensitive curricula and programs.
C&T 4052 Designing curriculum and instruction
This course is a critical study of curriculum aims, theories, and frameworks for designing curriculum and instruction that go beyond the mere organization of content and creation of teaching materials. Students design theoretically-grounded curriculum in collaborative groups.
C&T 4130 Critical perspectives in elementary education
Critical examination of issues bearing on lived experiences, practices, and purposes of current elementary students. This class is focused on two questions of educational justice: What does a child have a right to, in their education, today, here, now? Where does or can, a child contribute to and be recognized in the classroom? Readings and other media include classroom studies, critical interventions in current events, and foundational texts for democratic, public education. Open to all; required for CUED students.
C&T 4145 Critical perspectives in secondary education
A comprehensive examination of adolescent development and learning as they relate to issues of curriculum, teaching, and learning. Open to all; required for CUSD students.
C&T 4502 Master's Project
Students work to complete the required Master's integrative project.
C&T 5004 School change
What does it take to improve schools and transform education? This course addresses this question by exploring why conventional models of schooling have been so resistant to change and discussing what can be done to create new schools and innovative approaches to learning, teaching, and education. The course mixes theory, research and practice by introducing students to some of the seminal analyses of school improvement efforts over the last 50 years; encouraging students to reflect on their own educational experiences and visions, and inviting them to apply what they are learning by creating collaborative designs for innovative schools and learning experiences. Many of the course readings focus on educational reform in the US, but explorations of educational reform and innovation around the world are also included in examples, guest lectures, discussions, and projects.