Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular term. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the MyBU Student Portal for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• WED 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.
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  • Critical Thinking
  • Social Inquiry II
  • Writing-Intensive Course
• WED ED 470: Field Experience in Early Childhood Education
  Introduces students to the roles and ethical responsibilities of the early childhood educator. Students will examine the role of the teacher in creating learning environments that are responsive to all children. Includes required hours of field experience.
• WED 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.
• WED 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.
• WED 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.
• WED ED 474: Field Experience in World Language Education
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: SEDED507 - 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.
• WED ED 475: Field Experience in English Education
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: SEDED507 - 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.
• WED 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.
• WED ED 477: Field Experience in Mathematics Education
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: SEDED350 - 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.
• WED ED 478: Field Experience in Science Education
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (SEDED350) - 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.
• WED ED 490: Capstone in Childhood Education
  Students will design and enact a capstone project that demonstrates the knowledge and skills they developed during their courses in the Childhood Education for Diverse and Exceptional Learners track. The project may be done in your field placement and/or in collaboration with a community partner.
• WED 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.
• WED ED 492: Capstone in STEM Education
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (SEDED 350); Undergraduate Corequisites: (SEDED 477 OR SEDED 478). - 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.
• WED ED 500: Foundations of Educational Practices
  Graduate Prerequisites: Open only to graduate students enrolled in classroom initial licensure programs. - Open only to graduate students enrolled in classroom initial licensure programs. Focuses on learning and teaching in schools in terms of historical, philosophical, social, and political issues. An introduction to the occupation of teaching through placement in local schools, lectures, readings, written assignments, and small group discussions.
• WED ED 503: Professional Teaching Seminar I: Analyzing Foundations of Teaching
  Introductory seminar analyzes important foundational teaching issues: varieties of excellent teaching, diverse philosophies of schools, curriculum complexities in middle and senior high schools, history of education for the 20th and 21st centuries, and the power of community - culture - school inter- relations. Prereq ED 502. 2 cr.
• WED ED 506: Making Learning Visible: Exploring Multimedia Tools to Document and Deepen Learning
  What does collaboration, problem solving, and critical thinking look like? How can we communicate a learning process to deepen learning in varied contexts? Focusing on the tools of documentation and digital communication, students will work individually and in small groups to develop the basics of design needed to create and communicate this learning using digital multimedia expression (DME) in order to deepen and extend learning across a variety of settings. Relevant to educators, therapists, social workers, scientists, or anyone who wants to make learning processes visible in their field. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
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  • Digital/Multimedia Expression
• WED ED 507: Global Citizenship in Education
  Students will explore global citizenship through a humanities lens. By engaging in a variety of immersive, collaborative, and multimodal projects, students will work towards developing attributes of a global citizen and understanding how educators help foster global citizenship.
• WED ED 530: Fieldwork in Education
  Semester-long, 300-hour school-based experience for education majors as an alternative to student teaching. The purpose of this field experience is to provide students an opportunity to observe, participate, and reflect upon classroom organization, management, instruction, and interactions. Does not satisfy requirements for student teaching. Permission of Instructor. 150- 300 hours. Variable cr.
• WED ED 640: Origins of Inequity
  Explores and critiques, theoretically and practically, the history, politics, and policy implications of social and political inequity in North America and beyond. 4cr.
• WED ED 679: Equity and Democracy in Action
  Facilitates students' development of a digital capstone portfolio that reveals a plan for facilitating equity that implicates social, cultural, and political practices and policies reflective of a healthy democracy.