Education Studies

2023-24

120 Reading, Writing, and Teaching

Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

121 Writing the College Experience

Other years: Offered in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2025

128 Introduction to Academic Writing: The Right to Read and Write

Other years: Offered in Fall 2023

135 Justice

Other years: Offered in Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2024

145 Work

Other years: Offered in Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2023

160 Elements of Life: Biology Outreach through Community-based Learning

Other years: Offered in Spring 2025

182 Constructing Childhood: From Page to Screen

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2021

200 Race, Education, and Belonging

Other years: Offered in Fall 2019, Spring 2023

201 The Social Construction of American Society

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2019, Spring 2020, January 2021, January 2022, Spring 2022

203 Youth, Schooling, and Popular Culture

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022

206 Psychology of Play

Other years: Offered in Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2023, Fall 2024

208 Power and Politics in Contemporary China

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2013, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2024

214 What's So Great About (In)Equality?

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2023

224 Intergroup Dialogue on Race

Other years: Offered in Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Fall 2024

227 Developmental Psychology

Other years: Offered in Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2025

232 Political Economy of Development

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Spring 2023

240 Rethinking Pocahontas: An Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies

Other years: Offered in Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2023

265 Unequal Childhoods: Race, Class and Gender in the United States

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2016, Spring 2019, Spring 2023

301 Education for Democracy

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2022, Spring 2023

308 Gender, Feminisms, and Education

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2023

314 Black Student Power in the United States

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2020, Fall 2021

318 Rap, Reagan and the 1980s

Other years: Offered in Spring 2022, Spring 2025

328 Indigenous Narratives: Creating Children's Stories about Native American History

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2023, Spring 2025

331 Childhood and Adolescence

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2022, Spring 2023

337 Dilemmas of Diversity: The Case of Higher Education

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2024

345 Model Minorities: Jewish and Asian Americans

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022

346 Enfants Terribles: Childhood in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Literature, Culture, and Art

Other years: Offered in Fall 2013, Spring 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2023

352 The Purpose and Politics of Education

(Offered as EDST 352, HIST 352 [US/TC/TR/TS], AMST 352 and SOCI 352) Focusing on the United States, this course introduces students to foundational questions and texts central to Education Studies. We will explore the competing goals and priorities Americans have held for primary, secondary and post-secondary education and ask how and why these visions have influenced—or failed to influence—classrooms, schools, and educational policy. We will pay particular attention to sources of educational stratification; the tensions between the public and private purposes of schooling; and the relationship between schooling and equality. 

In the first part of the course, students will reflect on how Americans have imagined the purpose of self-education, literacy, public schooling, and the liberal arts. Among the questions we will consider: What do Americans want from public schools? Does education promote liberation? Has a liberal arts education outlived its usefulness? How has the organization of schools and school systems promoted some educational objectives in lieu of others? In the second section of the course, we will concentrate on the politics of schooling. Here, we will pay particular attention to several issues central to understanding educational inequality and its relationship to American politics, culture, and society: localism; state and federal authority; desegregation; and the complicated relationship between schooling and racial, linguistic, class-based, gender, and ethnic hierarchies. Finally, we will explore how competing ideas about the purpose and politics of education manifest themselves in current policy debates about privatization, charters, testing, and school discipline. Throughout the course, students will reflect on both the limits and possibilities of American schools to challenge and reconfigure the social order.

Limited to 20 students. Spring semester. Visiting Professor Luschen. 

Other years: Offered in Fall 2022, Spring 2025

359 Living with Inequality

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2021

374 Rights

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2023, Fall 2024

390, 490 Special Topics

Independent reading course.

Other years: Offered in Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024

410 Seminar on Epistemic Agency

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2021

468 Research Methods in American Culture

Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2025

470 Advanced Writing and Research in Education Studies

This course is designed for Education Studies majors (and prospective Education Studies majors) working on theses and other intensive research projects that examine the history, purpose, politics, and consequences of education. The course is intended to provide guidance and scholarly community for majors as they complete the requirement to produce a significant research project. Research may take a variety of forms, including but not limited to writing and research associated with a community-based project in an educational setting. Students will engage in the pre-writing, drafting, and revision of writing associated with an advanced research project in the field of Education Studies. Beyond writing skills, the course will (a) teach students how to identify, examine, and integrate primary and secondary research materials; (b) review protocols for ethical research; (c) when appropriate, connect students with community research sites; and (d) workshop students' work in progress.

Students will engage in several research and writing exercises throughout the semester, submit a significant research paper at the end of the semester, and participate in a “works in progress” presentation for the Education Studies community. 

One class meeting per week.

Requisite: one Education Studies course. Limited to 15 students. Fall semester. Professor Luschen.

Other years: Offered in Fall 2023, Fall 2024

498, 498D, 499, 499D Senior Honors

Independent work on an extended academic, creative, or pedagogical project on a topic relevant to the field. Thesis progress will be assessed by the department at the end of the first semester as a precondition for entrance to the next semester of thesis work. 

Other years: Offered in Spring 2023, Spring 2025