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  • WED 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.
  • WED ED 120: Exploring Professions that Impact Lives
    Through three-week modules, students will be introduced to potential career pathways. Students will examine history, practices, and research. Modules: Child & Adolescent Mental Health, Youth Development & Justice, Child Life & Family- Centered Care, and Educational Design for Transformative Social Futures.
  • WED ED 121: Exploring Professions Field Seminar
    Field seminar accompanying SED ED 120, Exploring Professions that Impact Lives I. Through experiential learning (field visits, studio work, etc.), students will connect coursework to practice in the respective career pathways.
  • WED ED 130: Exploring Professions that Impact Lives II
    Through three-week modules, students will be introduced to potential career pathways. Students will examine history, best practices, and current research. Modules: Childhood Education for Diverse & Exceptional Learners, STEM Learning, Action & Impact, Global Citizenship & Education, and Deaf Studies.
  • WED ED 131: Exploring Professions Field Seminar II
    Field seminar accompanying SED ED 130 Exploring Professions that Impact Lives II. Through experiential learning (field visits, etc.), students will connect coursework to practice in the respective career pathways.
  • WED 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.
    • The Individual in Community
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
    • Writing-Intensive Course
  • WED 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.
  • WED 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.
  • WED 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.
    • Ethical Reasoning
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • WED 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.
  • WED 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.
    • Critical Thinking
    • Ethical Reasoning
    • Writing-Intensive Course
  • WED 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
  • WED 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.
  • WED 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.
  • WED 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
  • WED 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
  • WED ED 300: Learning as a Cultural Process
    LRN CLTRL PROC
  • 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

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