Education Core

  • SED ED 111: Educational Technology
    This course focuses on different types of technology that have the potential to increase -- or distract from -- learning in informal and formal environments. We consider specific elements of educational technology scholarship and evaluate design elements of ed tech products.
  • SED ED 200: Introduction to Justice-Based Education
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent)
    This exploratory course introduces students to a critical history of schooling in America and the extent to which various philosophies of education can work (and have worked) in service of or in opposition to democratic and justice- oriented ends. Students will begin to cultivate a critically reflective stance toward classroom experiences, educational policies, their identities, and the intersection among them. This course requires 4 hours of field-based experience. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
    • The Individual in Community
    • Writing-Intensive Course
  • SED ED 201: Tutoring Struggling Readers and Writers
    This course is intended for those who are outside the profession of education (e.g. parents, community workers, non-SED students) to support children and adults who find learning to read and write difficult. The course will provide an introduction to the types of texts and teaching strategies that make a difference. 2 cr.
  • SED ED 205: Designing Learning Experiences
    This course focuses on the application of research and theories of teaching and learning to plan learning experiences across a variety of settings. Through a teaching for justice lens, students will develop and apply knowledge of approaches to learning.
  • SED ED 206: Family & Community Engagement
    Students will be invited to explore their own positionality towards and definitions of engagement, community, schools, and family, and learn how to best sustain and affirm the families and communities that they endeavor to serve. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
    • Ethical Reasoning
  • SED ED 213: Approaches to Learning
    Examines research and theories of learning and their application to teaching and other education practices. Pays special attention to factors that influence learning, such as socio-cultural and linguistic. Provides opportunities for students to apply learning principles and theories to practice.
  • SED ED 220: Theme-Based Approaches to Studying Complex Issues of Language in Education and Human Development
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (WR120)
    Prerequisite for this course: First Year Writing Seminar (WR120). Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
    • Ethical Reasoning
    • Critical Thinking
    • Writing-Intensive Course
  • SED ED 225: Project Citizen: Promoting Civic Engagement
    The course examines how a model of citizen action (Project Citizen) can be used to promote active and informed citizenship among youth and adults. Students apply that model to analyze and influence a current public policy of their choice. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
    • The Individual in Community
  • SED ED 230: Introduction to Design as Educational Inquiry
    Students will learn how creating learning designs can facilitate understandings of participant learning. They will explore how a variety of learning settings have been designed and think critically about how to design future ones for care, dignity, and justice.
  • SED ED 231: Tutoring Readers and Writers
    This course is intended for those who are outside the profession of education (e.g. parents, community workers, non-SED students) to support children and adults who find learning to read and write difficult. The course will provide an introduction to the types of texts and teaching strategies that make a difference. 2 cr.
  • SED ED 245: Theory and Practice of Peer Counseling
    Examines the theory of peer counseling and the development of specific counseling skills. Students enrolled in this class will serve as peer advisors in the CAS First Year Seminar course. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
    • Oral and/or Signed Communication
  • SED ED 246: Practicum in Peer Leadership and Mentoring
    Provides advanced mentoring training and leadership experience for selected students who have completed ED 245 (Theory and Practice or Peer Counseling). Students will mentor the students serving as peer mentors in FY101 (First Year Seminar) and enrolled in ED245. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Teamwork/Collaboration.
    • Teamwork/Collaboration
  • SED ED 350: Sense-making in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
    This course will deepen students' understanding of "sense-making" in science, mathematics, and engineering. Students analyze the opportunities they have had to make sense of concepts, explore new phenomena and ideas, attend to others' sensemaking, and connect sense-making to social justice.
  • SED ED 410: Social Context of Education
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: Juniors and seniors only. (SED ED 410 section C1 open to Non-SED students ONLY. All levels.)
    How culture, race, language, poverty, social change, urban pressures, and rural isolation affect the work of schools and other educational institutions, based upon reading, discussion, field research, and extensive writing by students. SED ED 410 A1 and ED 412 A1 must be taken in the same semester or ED 410 B1 in the fall and ED 412 B1 in the spring. 2cr.
  • SED ED 415: Educational Design for Transformative Social Futures Practicum II
    This practicum will provide students with a foundation in ethnographic inquiry essential to educational design that aims to disrupt inequitable, unjust systems, and to create alternative models of learning as lived arguments for the possible.
  • SED ED 416: Educational Design for Transformative Social Futures Seminar II
    Students will delve into core work in ethnography as both a theory-building and interpretive methodological practice, study examples of ethnography in practice, and learn approaches to writing ethnographic fieldnotes and critically debriefing notes and experiences with others.
  • SED ED 417: Practicum III
    In this linked practicum/capstone experience, students will bring their innovative visions for social transformation to life within a practice-oriented Educational Design cohort. In this practicum, students will collaboratively imagine and innovate educational designs across multi-modalities and multiple settings.
  • SED ED 418: Capstone: Designing in Collaboration with Field-Based Sites
    In this linked practicum/capstone experience, students will bring their innovative visions for social transformation to life within a practice-oriented Educational Design cohort. In this capstone, students will actualize educational designs across multi-modalities and multiple settings.
  • SED ED 431: CHILD POLICY: CREATING A SOCIETY WHERE CHILDREN THRIVE
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent)
    The course examines policies that address children's education, health, and social wellbeing in society. It takes an inter-disciplinary approach (developmental psychology, economics, sociology, and public health) to focus particularly on the needs, vulnerabilities, and strengths children. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
    • Social Inquiry II
    • Critical Thinking
    • Writing-Intensive Course
  • SED ED 471: Field Experience in Elementary Education
    Use Language Arts as the anchor for an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning that disrupts the status quo of systemic inequity in classrooms, schooling, and non-traditional educational settings. Introduces basic elements of curriculum design at the elementary level.