Education Core

• SED 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.
• SED 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.
• SED 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.
• SED 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.
• SED 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.
• SED 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.
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• SED 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.
• SED 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.
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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.
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• 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.
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• 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
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: Juniors and seniors only. (SED ED 410 section C1 open to Non-SED students ONLY. All levels.)
  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 412: Civic Context of Education
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: SED ED 410; Juniors and Seniors only. (SED ED 412 section C1 open to Non-SED students 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.
• 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 502: 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. ED 502 A1 must be taken in the fall, and ED 503 A1 must be taken in the spring. 0 cr.
• SED 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.
• SED 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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• SED 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.
• SED ED 682: Portfolio Development: IESE
  Develop performance assessment portfolio demonstrating competence in Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) and Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) standards. Prerequisites: Successful completion of the Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure (MTEL) in Communication and Literacy, General Curriculum (sub-tests I and II), and Foundations of Reading. (Old course# SPE 680 Portfolio Devt: Special Education). 1 cr.