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USC Catalogue 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

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USC Rossier School of Education

Courses

Curriculum, Teaching and Special Education

  • CTSE 593a Master’s Seminar

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    An examination and analysis of research and literature from the student’s area of focus. Required of all master’s candidates who do not enroll in the Master’s Thesis (594abz).
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  • CTSE 593b Master’s Seminar

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    An examination and analysis of research and literature from the student’s area of focus. Required of all master’s candidates who do not enroll in the Master’s Thesis (594abz).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

Education Counseling

  • EDCO 030x The Process of Paraprofessional Counseling for Young Adults

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Explores the theoretical processes involved in paraprofessional counseling with specific application to issues faced by young adults.
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  • EDCO 324m Asian American Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Psychological issues of Asian Americans such as cultural identity, intergenerational conflict, stereotypes, interracial dating and marriage, educational achievement, and mental health.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDCO 503 Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examination of current legal, ethical, and other professional issues in the practice of counseling and psychotherapy.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 500 .
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDCO 504 Behavior Management in the Classroom

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Analysis of student behavior in school settings. Emphasis is on a problem-solving functional approach to behavioral changes.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDCO 505 Counseling and Collaborative Consultation in the School Setting

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Theory and practice of collaborative consultations provided by school counselors and school psychologists to improve student achievement and the learning environment.
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 540
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDCO 506 Development, Administration and Evaluation of Pupil Personnel Services

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Develop skills in the evaluation and management of pupil personnel services programs in the public schools for comprehensive support of student learning and achievement.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDCO 541 Theories in Counseling

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Theory, research, and practice of psychological counseling.
    Corequisite: EDUC 500 .
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDCO 574 School Counseling Practicum

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Supervised practice in school counseling.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  • EDCO 575a School Counseling Fieldwork

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Supervised field experience in applying knowledge and skills within a K-12 school or related setting.
    Prerequisite: EDCO 574 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Rossier School of Education
    Duplicates Credit in former EDCO 575
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  • EDCO 575b School Counseling Fieldwork

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Supervised field experience in applying knowledge and skills within a K-12 school or related setting.
    Prerequisite: EDCO 575a 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Rossier School of Education
    Duplicates Credit in former EDCO 575
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

Higher and Postsecondary Education

  • EDHP 500 Foundations of Higher, Adult, and Professional Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Contemporary issues in higher, adult, and professional education in the United States; analytic perspectives from various disciplines (history, philosophy, sociology); implications for policy and practice.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDHP 502 Administration of Higher, Adult, and Professional Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Policies and theories for governance and management. Relations between historical and contemporary organizational processes in postsecondary education. Critique and applications of current research.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDHP 503 Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning in Higher, Adult, and Professional Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Curriculum, teaching, and learning strategies for general, vocational, and professional education; planning for lifelong learning; theories, policies, and practices for higher, adult, and professional education.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDHP 552 The Politics of Difference

    Units: 3
    Explores strategies for restructuring institutions of higher education to improve student support and achievement among historically marginalized groups.
    Duplicates Credit in EDUE 560 
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDHP 560 Feminist Theory

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in SWMS 560 )

  • EDHP 565 Intervention Strategies in College Student Development

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Exploration of current campus issues such as violence, diversity and academic remediation, and their related intervention strategies (policy-based, programmatic, and counseling-based).
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDHP 580 The Community College

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: SpSm
    The community college movement; history; aims; curriculum; types of administrative organization; teaching procedures; relation to lower and higher institutions; profiles of faculty and students; evaluation.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDHP 587 Fieldwork in Higher, Adult, and Professional Education

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Structured participation in supervised teaching or administrative activities. Assignments matched with student’s goals, training, experience.
    Recommended Preparation: EDHP 563 , EDHP 565 .
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  • EDHP 593a Master’s Seminar

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    An examination and analysis of research and literature in the student’s area of focus. Required for all master’s candidates who do not enroll in the Master’s Thesis (EDHP 594a , EDHP 594b , EDHP 594z ).
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  • EDHP 593b Master’s Seminar

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    An examination and analysis of research and literature in the student’s area of focus. Required for all master’s candidates who do not enroll in the Master’s Thesis (EDHP 594a , EDHP 594b , EDHP 594z ).
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  • EDHP 594a Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Required for all master’s candidates who do not enroll in the Master’s Seminar (EDHP 593a , EDHP 593b ).
    Credit Restriction: Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • EDHP 594b Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Required for all master’s candidates who do not enroll in the Master’s Seminar (EDHP 593a , EDHP 593b ).
    Credit Restriction: Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • EDHP 594z Master’s Thesis

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Required for all master’s candidates who do not enroll in the Master’s Seminar (EDHP 593a , EDHP 593b ).
    Credit Restriction: Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • EDHP 657 Leadership and Management in Student Affairs

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Delivery of student services and programs in higher education, organizational behavior, management systems, administrative procedures, and alternative leadership styles.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Rossier School of Education PASA students
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDHP 679 Legal Issues in the Administration of Higher Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Analysis of legal issues related to the administration of higher education; emphasis on relations with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and campus communities.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDHP 687 Student Development in Higher Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Theories of college student development and application of developmental models to program design, interventions, outreach, and research programs.
    Grading Option: Letter

Educational Policy, Planning and Administration

  • EDPA 308 Politics and American Education

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Historical study of political, legislative, judicial decisions that have shaped American education; interaction of educators, courts, legislative bodies; emphasis on in-depth analysis of current issues.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDPA 612 Qualitative Methods in Educational Research

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: SpSm
    Overview of the assumptions, methods and techniques of qualitative educational research; discussion and application of analytical tools derived from anthropology, sociology, history, and related social sciences.
    Grading Option: Letter

Educational Psychology and Technology

  • EDPT 310 Parental Influences on Children’s Educational Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Basic principles and theories of child development and learning with emphasis on parent-child, parent-school, and child-school relationships.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDPT 502 Learning and Individual Differences

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Theory and research in learning, development, and individual differences, and social psychology related to education or training contexts.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDPT 540 Introduction to Educational Measurement and Evaluation

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Survey of theories, concepts, and procedures for assessing intellective and non-intellective characteristics and for evaluating individual and program performances.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDPT 550 Statistical Inference

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Application of statistical techniques in education; emphasis on underlying principles and concepts coupled with selected inferential techniques using desk-top computer software.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDPT 570 Language and Cultural Diversity in Learning

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Analysis of current research and theory regarding the influences of language and culture on learning and cognition, with a special focus on academic achievement and instructional transactions.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDPT 576 Technology in Contemporary Education and Training

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Development and scope of instructional technology and its role in modern educational and training systems; overview of instructional development; innovation and trends in the field.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDPT 642 Measurement Theory

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Mathematical concepts and psychometric theory underlying test construction and interpretation; emphasis on current research in the area.
    Prerequisite: EDPT 652 .
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDPT 652 Multiple Regression

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Applied multiple regression analysis using Stata.
    Recommended Preparation: Introductory Statistics
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDPT 654 Multivariate Statistical Techniques

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Multivariate statistical procedures in the analysis of behavioral inquiries; particular emphasis on multivariate analysis of variance.
    Prerequisite: EDPT 652 .
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDPT 655 Advanced Research Methods in Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Focuses on principles of research design in education including literature synthesis, formulation of research problem and questions, selection of methodology and integration of research proposal.
    Prerequisite: EDPT 550 .
    Grading Option: Letter

Education

  • EDUC 140m Mind, Belief and Behavior: Learning in a Diverse World

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Examination of current research about learning and motivation in the context of human diversity.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 200 Introduction to the Teaching Profession

    Units: 2
    Identification and discussion of current issues and trends in schools and the teaching profession. Introduction to the development of a professional portfolio.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 204L Sociological Foundations of Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to the sociological foundations of education through focused study of schools, teacher-student relations, and classroom processes as they relate to social stratification.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 205L Child Development and Learning in Schools

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to processes of development and learning in school aged children, with an emphasis on school contexts.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 280 Public Health Literacy, History and Pandemics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in MEDS 270 )

  • EDUC 392 Undergraduate Research Methods

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in AMST 392 )

  • EDUC 409 Foundations of Language Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Overview of research and current theories in bilingual, second language, and foreign language instruction.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 410 The Teaching of Reading and Writing

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Analysis of reading/writing processes; methods/materials for teaching literacy in elementary schools; issues in biliteracy and instruction; classroom observation/participation in small-group instruction. Admission to the major.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 411 Sociopolitical and Raciolinguistic Contexts of Language

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Systematic study of effective policies and practices of multilingual and multicultural education based upon raciolinguistic and sociopolitical understandings of second language learning.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 412 Linguistically and Culturally Sustaining Teaching

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to critical multilingual pedagogy for equitable, inclusive and effective language learning lesson design.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 413 Methods and Models of Instruction for Language Minority Students

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Curriculum materials and teaching strategies for use in successfully teaching language minority students in both elementary and secondary schools.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 415 Content to Pedagogy: Mathematics in the Elementary School

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Bridging college level mathematics content and elementary school curricula to design developmentally appropriate mathematics instruction.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: EDUC 424a  or EDUC 424b .
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 416 Content to Pedagogy: Art in the Elementary School

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Transformation of content in art to curriculum in the elementary classroom.
    Corequisite: EDUC 424b .
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 417 Content to Pedagogy: From Science Content to Science Curriculum

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An overview of the goals and content of science instruction at the elementary level coupled with appropriate science curricular and pedagogical models.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: EDUC 424a  or EDUC 424b .
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 418 Content to Pedagogy: From Social Sciences to Social Studies

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Content, concepts, methods, and values for integrating the social sciences in the social studies.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: EDUC 424a  or EDUC 424b .
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 419 Content to Pedagogy: P.E. for Elementary Students

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Transformation of content in Physical Education to curriculum in the elementary classroom.
    Corequisite: EDUC 424b .
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 420 Technology, Media and Culturally Sustaining Education

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Select, create and use multimedia and technology to plan for more effective and equitable learning in schools, communities and organizations.
    Recommended Preparation: EDUC 411  
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 435 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 421 Global Issues: Impact on Educational Outcomes

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Situates U.S. education within the global context and examines the impact of global issues on national and international schooling in the 21st Century.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 422 Education for Social Change

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examines access to schooling and quality education across student difference indexed by race, class and gender. Promotes understanding of U.S. public schooling for equitable outcomes.
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 435
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 423 Unrealized Promise and Hope for Education in 21st Century

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Investigates the promise of education and often-failed outcomes though the lens of literacy/language. Focuses on literacy to promote student agency for successful educational attainment.
    Recommended Preparation: Freshman Seminar on a topic in education
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 424a Curriculum and Methods in Elementary Education

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Curriculum materials and teaching procedures in the elementary school.
    Concurrent Enrollment: EDUC 425a 
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 424b Curriculum and Methods in Elementary Education

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Curriculum materials and teaching procedures in the elementary school.
    Concurrent Enrollment: EDUC 425b 
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 425a Observation and Directed Teaching in Elementary Schools

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Observation and experience in teaching under supervision in elementary schools (one semester at the kindergarten-primary level and one semester in the intermediate or upper grades).
    Concurrent Enrollment: EDUC 424a 
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 425b Observation and Directed Teaching in Elementary Schools

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Observation and experience in teaching under supervision in elementary schools (one semester at the kindergarten-primary level and one semester in the intermediate or upper grades).
    Concurrent Enrollment: EDUC 424b 
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 426 Educational Inquiry for Equity

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Introduction to educational inquiry for equity. Use educational research methods to learn more about educational theory and practice through on-site visits to schools and community-based organizations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 427 Vectors that Influence Early Childhood Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Investigating early childhood issues from professional perspectives: historian, journalist, premedical, and law.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 428 The Effects of Curriculum and Institution on Early Childhood

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The study of research, philosophy, and pedagogy that informs political, parents, community members, schools and their curriculum.
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 435
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 429 Early Childhood and Contemporary Society

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Consequences of “corporate world” on developing expectations of young children as consumers and scholars, an emphasis on films, television, and toys that effect intellectual growth.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 430 Early Childhood: Action Research Focus

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Selecting an instructional or developmental problem of young children to investigate through an action research design.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 431 Education Policy in the United States

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Analysis of key issues in education policy. Understanding the policymaking process, including policy design, implementation and analysis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 432 Inequality in Education

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Exploration of the role of education in causing or ameliorating opportunity gaps. Social stratification and its effects.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 433 Elementary Mathematics for Teaching

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Dissection of elementary mathematics curriculum in order to gain the deep understanding of an effective teacher.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to juniors and seniors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 434 Secondary Mathematics for Teaching

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Dissect secondary mathematics curriculum to gain a deep understanding needed to be an effective teacher.
    Prerequisite: MATH 226g 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 435 Education and Society

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examine relationship between education and society; identify intractable issues denying access to quality education by race, class and gender.
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 422 , EDUC 420 , EDUC 428 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 436 Equity in the Mathematics Classroom

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Explores the integration of equity-based strategies in teaching mathematical curriculum in urban school communities.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 437 Research in Teaching and Learning Mathematics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Addressing the basic designs, with emphasis on the characteristics of research, in learning and teaching mathematics education and their impacts on curricula, instruction and learning.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 438 Truth in Mathematics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Addresses the needs for mathematical arguments and proofs in learning and teaching mathematics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 439 Education for Sustainable Global Futures

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Education as a vehicle for change through student identification of authentic global, national and local problems for examination, analysis and solutions through a justice framework.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings.
    Credit Restriction: Not available for graduate credit.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Seminar in selected topics in education. Specific topics to be determined at the time seminar is offered.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 500 The Counseling Process

    Units: 3
    Theoretical foundations, models, values, and assumptions underlying psychological counseling; cross-cultural perspectives, ethical and legal considerations.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: EDUC 507 .
    Duplicates Credit in former EDCO 500.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 503 Principles of Learning and Motivation for Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Design and advancement of learning and motivation outcomes in various environments through a systematic examination and application of current research.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 507 Professional Identity, Law and Ethics for Counselors

    Units: 3
    History of the field of counseling and professional identity development for counselors are addressed. Examination of current legal, ethical, and other professional issues in counseling.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: EDUC 500 .
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 508 Interrogating Systems of Inequity in Professional Practice

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Framing the graduate experience for master’s students. Examining self and field of professional practice in the context of achieving equity.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 510 Theories of Language Learning and Teaching

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Application of learning theories to the design of second language instruction and student assessment to promote motivation, investment, self-regulation and engagement among language learners.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to majors in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 511 Introduction to Counseling

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    The role of the school counselor. An overview of key elements in increasing access to and equity for primary and secondary education for all students.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 512 Reading and Writing Methods for Secondary Teaching

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Analysis of reading/writing processes; methods for teaching literacy in grades 9–12; issues in biliteracy and instruction.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 514 School Counseling Seminar

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Current issues and problems in school counseling; emphasis is on K–12 learning and achievement.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 515 Theories of Marriage and Family Therapy

    Units: 3
    Major psychotherapeutic orientations relating to family systems, marital relationships, and communications theory applied to the family unit.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 500 , EDUC 507 , EDCO 541 .
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 520 Career and College Readiness Counseling

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Theoretical foundations of individual and systemic characteristics that impact college and career choices. Consideration of economic, political, social and policy issues.
    Registration Restriction: Registration is restricted to USC Rossier School of Education Master students in the School Counseling Program
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 600 
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 521 Assessment and Instruction for Diverse Language Learners

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Assessment practices and strategies in English language instruction with special attention to learner differences (social, cultural, physical, intellectual) that influence academic performance. Open only to MAT TESOL and TESOL (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (online).
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 522 Accountability for Organizational Change

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Accountability through an organizational change and leadership perspective.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 523 Equity and Inclusion in Organizational Contexts

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Diversity issues in urban educational settings.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to EdD students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 524 Challenges in Urban Education: Leadership

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Theories, principles, and concepts of leadership in urban K–12 schools and institutions of higher education. Open only to EdD students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Ed.D. students.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 525 Challenges in Urban Education: Learning

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Theory and research in learning, motivation, and instruction for diverse educational settings. Open only to EdD students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Ed.D. students.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 526 Language Teaching: Planning and Instruction

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduces a broad range of theories that inform and underpin second language learning and teaching, their critical review and applications for designing of classroom learning and teaching experiences.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Rossier School of Education master’s students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 527 Assessment in the Language Classroom

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Introduces students to relevant research in language assessment, reviews concepts of reliability and validity and examines assessment practices in the classroom.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 528 Course Proposal Project

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Using a framework of course development, students present a course proposal, linking the theoretical, methodological and practical principles gained from all course work in the program.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 529 Political and Academic Issues Affecting Gifted Students

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Examination of the political and academic issues affecting gifted and high-ability students. Psychosocial reasons contributing to achievement and underachievement. Institutional and personal factors inhibiting potential. Open only to MAT students.
    Grading Option: Letter

  • EDUC 530 Differentiated Curriculum and Pedagogy for Gifted Students

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Recognizing the talent and potential of gifted and high ability students. How gifted education can be generalized to affect the education of all students. Open only to MAT students.
    Grading Option: Letter

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