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 331: 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.
• 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. Effective Fall 2026, this course fulfills a single requirement in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Critical Thinking, Scientific Inquiry 1.
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  • Creativity/Innovation
  • Critical Thinking
  • Scientific Inquiry I
• WED ED 405: 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.
• WED ED 406: Family and 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.
• WED ED 415: Practicum 1: Educational Design
  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: Seminar 1: Educational Design
  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 2: Educational Design
  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 480: Field Experience in Teaching & Learning
  This field-based seminar supports students in exploring the roles, responsibilities, and ethical practices of educators across diverse formal and informal learning environments. Through fieldwork and reflective seminars, students examine how educators create spaces that are culturally sustaining, developmentally appropriate, and justice-oriented.
• WED ED 495: Capstone in Teaching & Learning
  As a culminating project for the Teaching & Learning specialization, students will synthesize and apply knowledge from their previous coursework by designing and enacting a research project that is aligned with the goals of a community partner.
• 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.
• WED ED 700: Thesis: Equity and Social Justice in Practice
  This course is relevant for students in their final stages of formatting and refining their Master's theses. It builds on the preparatory work begun in previous courses that examine or engage students in several aspects of the research process.
• WED ED 800: Pro-Seminar in Educational Studies: Theories of Teaching, Learning, and Equity
  This year-long doctoral pro-seminar consists of two four-credit courses: Theories of Teaching, Learning, and Equity and Educational Foundations and Systems. It is required for students in their first year of doctoral program in Educational Studies. The course orients students to doctoral work in the School of Education, introduces major concepts and lenses that have shaped schooling and educational research, and foregrounds issues of equity and social justice. 4cr.