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 310: Critical Making/Creative Inquiry
  CRITMAK/CRTVINQ
• WED ED 315: Gamifying Learning
  GAMIFY LEARNING
• WED ED 320: Critical Media Literacy
  CRIT MEDIA LIT
• WED 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.
• WED ED 412: Civic Context of Education
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (SEDED410) Juniors and Seniors only. (SED ED 412 section C1 open to Non-SED stud ents ONLY. All levels.) - Political and professional decision making in education in a democracy, emergent issues in educational policy, and the ethics of educational practice, based upon reading, discussion, planning exercises, and extensive writing by students. 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.
• WED ED 413: Practicum I
  PRAC1: EDDESIGN
• WED ED 414: Seminar I
  SEM1: ED DESIGN
• WED 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.
• WED 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.
• WED 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.
• WED 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.
• 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
  FIELD EXP ECE
• 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.