EDUC 100 3 Units
Introduction to Education Studies
This course provides an overview of the field of education, education theory, and learning inside and outside the classroom and introduces public policy and a critical perspective on the ideological and social construction of schools in the United States. It also includes interpretations of learning conditions through student observations and experiences in varied educational and learning contexts.
EDUC 101 3 Units
Principles of Learning Strategies
This course introduces attitudes and behaviors associated with successful learning and achievement and compares learning theories and research-based learning strategies to school, home, and multimedia regarding different types of learners and topic areas.
EDUC 102 3 Units
Introduction to Education Policy
This course provides an overview of how federal and state education policy and practice, assessment theories, teaching practices and methodologies can exert a positive impact on teaching and learning outcomes frameworks governing public education. It explores the political dynamics of policy-making with an emphasis on centralized policy-making authority and on efforts to reform and improve public schools. It also explores competing values guiding policy debates and dilemmas of centralized policy control.
EDUC 103 3 Units
Education, Society, and Culture
This course introduces the history and philosophy of public education in the United States, how and why certain school-society issues first arose in this country, and how those issues have changed over time with an emphasis on critical social justice-oriented theories and principles that actively address the dynamics of oppression and privilege within the context of education, society, and culture. This course examines society as the product of historically rooted, institutionally sanctioned stratification along socially constructed group lines, including race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ability. It also includes a survey of the political economy, dominant ideologies, and existing educational practices that have precedents in various historical eras with an examination of the history of education of girls and women, People of Color, minority groups and people of varying socioeconomic classes.
EDUC 200 3 Units
Introduction to Elementary Education
This course introduces students to the concepts and issues related to teaching diverse learners in contemporary public schools (K-12). Topics include historical and philosophical foundations of the American education system, education theory, multiculturalism, teaching as a profession and career, contemporary education issues, California Content Standards and framework, and teacher performance standards. In addition to class time, 45-hours of structured fieldwork are required at an approved public school elementary classroom with a certified classroom teacher and students that represent California's diverse population. Proof of a negative TB test and fingerprint clearance are required for classroom observations.
EDUC 201 3 Units
Looking into Classrooms: Secondary Education
This course has an emphasis on understanding the role of the secondary education teacher, instructional methods, curriculum as it relates to grade-level state standards, teacher preparation, educational theory, learning theory, teaching theory, cooperative relationships, and professional ethics of teaching. Students record and interpret their observations and compare them to published studies of classrooms. Designed for students interested in teaching middle school, grades 6-8, and high school, grades 9-12, including secondary education classrooms designated as Career Technical Education (CTE) and Special Education, this course involves classroom observations in local schools identified as having exemplary programs Proof of a negative TB test and fingerprint clearance are required for classroom observations.
