Courses

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  • 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
    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
    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.
  • SED ED 472: Field Experience in Special Education
    Focuses on educational needs and supports for students with disabilities through school-based special education and related services, and community agencies through two-day per week placement in area schools. Accompanying seminar.
  • SED ED 473: Field Experience in Social Studies Education
    This course supports students in their Humanities education teaching pre- practicum. Students complete teaching observations, reflect on field experiences, evaluate teaching practice against professional teaching standards, and develop and implement micro-teaching lessons.
  • SED ED 474: Field Experience in World Language Education
    This course supports students in their teaching through a field experience. Students complete observations, reflect on field experiences, evaluate practice against professional standards, and develop and implement micro-teaching lessons.
  • SED ED 475: Field Experience in English Education
    In this seminar style course, students interested in pursuing teaching English/language arts will complete fieldwork in a local ELA classroom or other relevant site that focuses on elements of English/language arts education.
  • SED ED 476: Field Experience in English as Second Language
    This course provides students interested in gaining experience in an English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom. Students will conduct observations and interviews, analyze lesson plans, examine professional teaching standards and ESL curriculum, and complete a classroom ethnography.
  • SED ED 477: Field Experience in Mathematics Education
    Focuses on the experiences of mathematics teachers and students through a one-day per week placement in educational settings. Topics include an introduction of: best teaching practices, equity in math teaching and learning, and the role of curriculum.
  • SED ED 478: Field Experience in Science Education
    Focuses on the experiences of science teachers and students through a one-day per week placement in schools and other educational settings. Topics include an introduction of: best teaching practices, equity in science teaching and learning, and the role of curriculum.
  • SED ED 491: Capstone in Global Citizenship in Education
    Students will design and enact a project that demonstrates the knowledge and skills they developed during their courses in the Global Citizenship and Education track. The project will be done in collaboration with a community partner.
  • SED ED 492: Capstone in STEM Education
    This course requires students to complete a capstone project: identifying a topic related to the equitable teaching and learning of math/science, designing research-based lessons or other teaching-focused projects, and communicating with stakeholders about instructional recommendations.

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