Undergraduate courses in Education

How social entrepreneurship in China can meet the need for equitable education that arises from the nation's rapid but unevenly distributed economic growth. Education in rural China, the philosophy behind the education system, potential of technology, and social entrepreneurship.

1 unit, not given this year

EDUC 95Q. Exploring School Reforms

Preference to sophomores considering careers in education and who want to combine this course with fieldwork or school visits. Case studies of school reform and issues of continuity and change in education. Topics: origins, outcomes, and explanations of social movements that have worked for social justice in education; the balance of social diversity and shared political values; the assessment of success in education reform; the meanings of progressive and traditional in teaching and learning, and their relationship to the No Child Left Behind law.

2 units, not given this year

EDUC 98X. Service Learning Practicum

For Alternative Spring Break program leaders. The skills and philosophical framework to develop and lead an ASB experience.

1 unit, Aut (McConnell, J)

EDUC 102. Examining Social Structures, Power, and Educational Access

Goal is to prepare Education and Youth Development fellows for their work with adolescents in the Haas Center's pre-college summer programs and to define their role in addressing educational inequities in the summer programs and beyond.

2-3 units, Spr (Wilson, J)

EDUC 103A. Tutoring: Seeing a Child through Literacy

(Same as EDUC 203A, SOC 103A, SOC 203A.) Experience tutoring grade school readers in a low income community near Stanford under supervision. Training in tutoring; the role of instruction in developing literacy; challenges facing low income students and those whose first language is not English. How to see school and print through the eyes of a child. Ravenswood Reads tutors encouraged to enroll. GER:DB-SocSci

4 units, Aut (Juel, C; England, P)

EDUC 103B. Sociocultural Theory and Practices: Race, Ethnicity, and Linguistic Diversity in Classrooms

(Same as EDUC 337.) Focus is on classrooms with students from diverse racial, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Studies, writing, and media representation of urban and diverse school settings; implications for transforming teaching and learning. Issues related to developing teachers with attitudes, dispositions, and skills necessary to teach diverse students.

3-5 units, not given this year

EDUC 103C. Educational Policy, Diversity, and English Learners

Undergraduates engage in the real world of teaching. Historical and legal foundations, and materials, methods, and strategies for English and primary language development. Students tutor an English learner.

3-4 units, not given this year

EDUC 104X. Conduct of Research with and in Communities

For undergraduates interested in service learning and research in community settings. The historical and theoretical underpinnings of community-based participatory research (CBPR), action research, community-embedded research, participant observation, and qualitative research.

3-4 units, not given this year

EDUC 106. Interactive Media in Education

Workshop. (CTE)

3-5 units, Spr (Staff)

EDUC 107. The Politics of International Cooperation in Education

(Same as EDUC 307B.) (Undergraduates and master's students register for 107.) Analysis of policies and practices in international cooperation, assistance, and exchange. The role of international organizations (World Bank, UNESCO, OECD) and the politics of multilateral and bilateral assistance programs. (SSPEP/ICE, APA)

3-4 units, not given this year

EDUC 109X. Educational Issues in Contemporary China

(Same as EDUC 309X.) Reforms such as the decentralization of school finance, emergence of private schools, expansion of higher education, and reframing of educational policy to focus on issues of quality. Have these reforms exacerbated educational inequality.

3-4 units, not given this year

EDUC 110. Sociology of Education: The Social Organization of Schools

(Same as EDUC 310, SOC 132, SOC 332.) Seminar. Key sociological theories and empirical studies of the links between education and its role in modern society, focusing on frameworks that deal with sources of educational change, the organizational context of schooling, the impact of schooling on social stratification, and the relationships between the educational system and other social institutions such as families, neighborhoods, and the economy. GER:DB-SocSci

4 units, Win (Carter, P)

EDUC 111. The Young Adult Novel: A Literature For and About Adolescents

For undergraduates considering teaching or working with adolescents, and for those planning to apply to the coterminal program in the Stanford Teacher Education program (STEP). Students work together to define the genre of young adult novels. What they reveal about adolescence in America. How to read and teach young adult literature.

5 units, Aut (Grossman, P; Wolf, J)

EDUC 112X. Urban Education

(Same as EDUC 212X.) (Graduate students register for 212X). Combination of social science and historical perspectives trace the major developments, contexts, tensions, challenges, and policy issues of urban education. GER:DB-Hum, DB-SocSci

3-4 units, Spr (Carter, P)

EDUC 115Q. Identities, Race, and Culture in Urban Schools

Preference to sophomores. How urban youth come to a sense of themselves as students, members of cultural and racial groups, and young people in urban America. The nature and interaction of racial and academic identities: how identity takes shape; how it has been conceptualized. The relation between identities and learning. Urban schools as contexts for identity development. Theoretical perspectives include psychology, sociolinguistics, sociology, anthropology, and education. Students shadow a high-school student in a public school and write a case study.

3 units, not given this year

EDUC 116X. Service Learning as an Approach to Teaching

History, theory, and practice. Topics include: responsive community partnerships, cultural awareness, the role of reflection, and best practices in service learning. (Cotterman)

3 units, Spr (Cotterman, K; Mitchell, T)

EDUC 117. Research and Policy on Postsecondary Access

(Same as EDUC 417.) The transition from high school to college. K-16 course focusing on high school preparation, college choice, remediation, pathways to college, and first-year adjustment. The role of educational policy in postsecondary access. (Antonio)

3 units, Spr (Antonio, A)

EDUC 122X. From Local to Global: Collaborations for International Environmental Education

(Same as EARTHSYS 123.) A collaboration with three universities in Africa. Discourse and debate using Internet and mobile technology interactions. Topics include the global environment, climate change, sustainable development, and food security.

2 units, not given this year

EDUC 123X. Contexts that Promote Youth Development: Understandings of Effective Interventions

How psychology, medicine, public health, sociology, education, and public policy define and promote youth development. How to build the resilience and competencies of youth through safe, supportive environments for building social, emotional, and intellectual skills. How to design settings that best promote youth development.

2-4 units, not given this year

EDUC 124. Collaborative Design and Research of Technology: Integrated Curriculum

For education students interested in math and science curriculum development. Studio-based, hands-on approach to the research and development of technology tools and curriculum materials. Focus is on the role that technologies can play in teaching and learning in the content areas.

3-4 units, Win (Staff)

EDUC 130. Introduction to Counseling

The theories and techniques of counseling, emphasizing clients' individual and cultural differences, and construction of one's own theory of the counseling process and outcome. Two psychotherapeutic theories, cognitive-behavioral and existential-humanistic, supplemented with a third theory of student's choice. Experiential, problem-based focus on how to develop self-awareness and conceptual understandings of the counseling process in culturally diverse contexts. (PSE)

3 units, Win (LaFromboise, T)

EDUC 131. Mexdiation for Dispute Resolution

(Same as PSYCH 152.) Mediation as more effective and less expensive than other forms of settling disputes such as violence, lawsuits, or arbitration. How mediation can be structured to maximize the chances for success. Simulated mediation sessions.

3 units, Aut (Massey, T)

EDUC 134. Career and Personal Counseling

(Same as EDUC 234, PSYCH 192.) Methods of integrating career and personal counseling with clients and counselors from differing backgrounds. Practice with assessment instruments. Case studies of bicultural role conflict. Informal experience in counseling. (PSE)

3 units, not given this year

EDUC 137X. Social Justice in Education

(Same as EDUC 237X.) (Formerly 320X.) Recent work in political theory to address questions about social justice in educational policy and practice: equality in education, language rights, race and multiculturalism, educational choice. GER:EC-EthicReas

3 units, not given this year

EDUC 143. Boys' Psychosocial Development

(Same as HUMBIO 144.) From early childhood through adolescence. Emphasis is on how boys' lives and experiences are embedded within their interpersonal relationships and social and cultural contexts. Interdisciplinary approach including perspectives from fields such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, family studies, and education. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent, or consent of instructor. GER:EC-Gender

4 units, not given this year

EDUC 148X. Critical Perspectives on Teaching and Tutoring English Language Learners

Theoretical foundation for volunteer tutors of English language learners in urban environments working with children in school-based programs or adults in community-based settings.

3 units, not given this year

EDUC 149. Theory and Issues in the Study of Bilingualism

(Same as EDUC 249.) Sociolinguistic perspective. Emphasis is on typologies of bilingualism, the acquisition of bilingual ability, description and measurement, and the nature of societal bilingualism. Prepares students to work with bilingual students and their families and to carry out research in bilingual settings. (SSPEP) GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Aut (Valdes, G)

EDUC 150. Introduction to Data Analysis and Interpretation

Primarily for master's students with little or no experience. Focus is on reading literature and interpreting descriptive and inferential statistics, especially those commonly found in education. Topics: basic research design, instrument reliability and validity, description statistics, correlation, t-tests, one-way analysis of variance, and simple and multiple regression.

4 units, Aut (Porteus, A), Win (Porteus, A)

EDUC 151. Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

Primarily for master's students. Issues, ideas, and methods.

3-4 units, Aut (Pope, D), Win (Wolf, J)

EDUC 160. Introduction to Statistical Methods in Education

(Master's students register for 150.) For doctoral students with little or no prior statistics. Organization of data, descriptive statistics, elementary methods of inference, hypothesis testing, and confidence intervals. Computer package used. Students cannot also receive credit for PSYCH 60 or for STATS 60/160. (all areas)

3-4 units, Aut (Rogosa, D)

EDUC 165. History of Higher Education in the U.S.

(Same as EDUC 265.) Major periods of evolution, particularly since the mid-19th century. Premise: insights into contemporary higher education can be obtained through its antecedents, particularly regarding issues of governance, mission, access, curriculum, and the changing organization of colleges and universities. (SSPEP-APA)

3-4 units, Win (Gordon, L)

EDUC 166. The Centrality of Literacies in Teaching and Learning

Focus is on principles in understanding, assessing, and supporting the reading and writing processes, and the acquisition of content area literacies in secondary schools. Literacy demands within particular disciplines and how to use oral language, reading, and writing to teach content area materials more effectively to all students. (STEP)

3 units, Sum (Ball, A)

EDUC 167. Educating for Equity and Democracy

Introduction to the theories and practices of equity and democracy in education. How to think about teaching and schooling in new ways; the individual moral and political reasons for becoming a teacher. (STEP)

2 units, Sum (McDermott, R)

EDUC 170X. Preparation for Independent Public Service Projects

Open only to recipients of the Haas Summer Fellowship, which offers students the opportunity to initiate and carry out an innovative service project in collaboration with a community partner. Goal is to expand upon the work fellows did during the application process with respect to the feasibility and sustainability of their field projects.

2 units, Spr (Hawthorne, J)

EDUC 171. Early Childhood Education Practicum

Year-long seminar; restricted to students who participate in JumpStart, a service learning program. Training for activities in preschool classrooms. Background on issues related to: young children's cognitive, language. and social development; classroom management; literacy; math; science teaching; cultural diversity; and early childhood education programs. May be repeataed for credit.

2-4 units, Aut (Stipek, D), Win (Stipek, D), Spr (Stipek, D)

EDUC 177. Education of Immigrant Students: Psychological Perspectives

(Same as EDUC 277.) Historical and contemporary approaches to educating immigrant students. Case study approach focuses on urban centers to demonstrate how stressed urban educational agencies serve immigrants and native-born U.S. students when confronted with overcrowded classrooms, controversy over curriculum, current school reform movements, and government policies regarding equal educational opportunity. (SSPEP)

4 units, Win (Padilla, A)

EDUC 178X. Latino Families, Languages, and Schools

The challenges facing schools to establish school-family partnerships with newly arrived Latino immigrant parents. How language acts as a barrier to home-school communication and parent participation. Current models of parent-school collaboration and the ideology of parental involvement in schooling. (SSPEP) (Valdés)

3-5 units, Spr (Valdes, G)

EDUC 179. Urban Youth and Their Institutions: Research and Practice

(Same as EDUC 279.) The determinants and consequences of urban life for youth, emphasizing disciplinary and methodological approaches, and the gap between the perspectives of state and local organizations and those of youth and their communities. The diversity of urban youth experiences with respect to ethnicity, gender, and immigration histories. Case studies illustrate civic-level and grassroots institutions, their structures, networks, and philosophies; historical and contemporary realities of urban youth for policy makers, educators, and researchers. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (SSPEP/APA)

4-5 units, Aut (McLaughlin, M)

EDUC 179B. Youth Empowerment and Civic Engagement

(Same as EDUC 279B.) Focus is on youth development policies and practices: what makes them effective, and how they operate in broader institutional contexts. Research-based information; conceptual underpinnings; best learning from experience; and the perspective of expert youth workers, policymakers, and youth about what works.

2-4 units, not given this year

EDUC 180. Directed Reading in Education

For undergraduates and master's degree students. (All Areas)

1-15 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

EDUC 181. Multicultural Issues in Higher Education

(Same as EDUC 381.) The primary social, educational, and political issues that have surfaced in American higher education due to the rapid demographic changes occurring since the early 80s. Research efforts and the policy debates include multicultural communities, the campus racial climate, and student development; affirmative action in college admissions; multiculturalism and the curriculum; and multiculturalism and scholarship.

4 units, not given this year

EDUC 190. Directed Research in Education

For undergraduates and master's students. May be repeated for credit. (all areas)

1-15 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

EDUC 191X. Introduction to Survey Research

(Same as EDUC 291X.) Planning tasks, including problem formulation, study design, questionnaire and interview design, pretesting, sampling, interviewer training, and field management. Epistemological and ethical perspectives. Issues of design, refinement, and ethics in research that crosses boundaries of nationality, class, gender, language, and ethnicity.

3-4 units, Win (Adams, J)

EDUC 193A. Listen Up! Core Peer Counseling Skills

Topics: verbal and non-verbal skills, open and closed questions, paraphrasing, working with feelings, summarization, and integration. Individual training, group exercises, role play practice with optional video feedback. Sections on relevance to crisis counseling and student life. Guest speakers from University and community agencies. Students develop and apply skills in University settings.

2 units, Aut (Martinez, A), Win (Martinez, A), Spr (Martinez, A)

EDUC 193B. Peer Counseling in the Chicano/Latino Community

Topics: verbal and non-verbal attending and communication skills, open and closed questions, working with feelings, summarization, and integration. Salient counseling issues including Spanish-English code switching in communication, the role of ethnic identity in self-understanding, the relationship of culture to personal development, and Chicana/o student experience in University settings. Individual training, group exercises, role play, and videotape practice.

1 unit, Aut (Martinez, A)

EDUC 193C. Peer Counseling in the African American Community

Topics: the concept of culture, Black cultural attributes and their effect on reactions to counseling, verbal and non-verbal attending, open and closed questions, working with feelings, summarization, and integration. Reading assignments, guest speakers, role play, and videotaped practice. Students develop and apply skills in the Black community on campus or in other settings that the student chooses.

2 units, Aut (Adams, C)

EDUC 193F. Psychological Well-Being on Campus: Asian American Perspectives

Topics: the Asian family structure, and concepts of identity, ethnicity, culture, and racism in terms of their impact on individual development and the counseling process. Emphasis is on empathic understanding of Asians in America. Group exercises.

1 unit, Spr (Brown, N)

EDUC 193N. Peer Counseling in the Native American Community

Verbal and non-verbal communication, strategic use of questions, methods of dealing with strong feelings, and conflict resolution. How elements of counseling apply to Native Americans including client, counselor, and situational variables in counseling, non-verbal communication, the role of ethnic identity in self-understanding, the relationship of culture to personal development, the impact of family on personal development, gender roles, and the experience of Native American students in university settings. Individual skill development, group exercises, and role practice.

1 unit, Win (Simms, W)

EDUC 193P. Peer Counseling at the Bridge

Mental health issues such as relationships, substance abuse, sexual assault, depression, eating disorders, academic stressors, suicide, and grief and bereavement. Guest speakers.

1 unit, Aut (Martinez, A), Win (Martinez, A), Spr (Martinez, A)

EDUC 193S. Peer Counseling on Comprehensive Sexual Health

Information on sexually transmitted infections and diseases, and birth control methods. Topics related to sexual health such as communication, societal attitudes and pressures, pregnancy, abortion, and the range of sexual expression. Role-play and peer-education outreach projects. Required for those wishing to counsel at the Sexual Health Peer Resource Center (SHPRC).

1 unit, Aut (Yisrael, D), Win (Yisrael, D), Spr (Yisrael, D)

EDUC 197. Education, Gender, and Development

(Same as SOC 134.) Theories and perspectives from the social sciences relevant to the role of education in changing, modifying, or reproducing structures of gender differentiation and hierarchy. Cross-national research on the status of girls and women and the role of development organizations and processes. (SSPEP) GER:EC-Gender

4-5 units, Aut (Wotipka, C)

EDUC 198X. Tutoring with Adolescents: Ravenswood Writes

(Same as PWR 198X.) Strategies and approaches for teaching writing to students from diverse backgrounds and languages, and cultural and learning styles. Course prepares students to become tutors for Ravenswood Writes. Prerequisites: application and committee approval.

3 units, not given this year

EDUC 199A. Undergraduate Honors Seminar

Required of juniors and seniors in the honors program in the School of Education. Student involvement and apprenticeships in educational research. Participants share ongoing work on their honors thesis. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit once.

1 unit, Aut (Ramirez, F)

EDUC 199B. Undergraduate Honors Seminar

1 unit, Win (Ramirez, F)

EDUC 199C. Undergraduate Honors Seminar

1 unit, Spr (Ramirez, F)

EDUC 219E. The Creative Arts in Elementary Classrooms

For STEP Elementary only or for candidates in the Multiple Subjects program. Hands-on exploration of visual arts media and works of art.

1 unit, Aut (Staff)

EDUC 245. Understanding Racial and Ethnic Identity Development

African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American racial and ethnic identity development; the influence of social, political and psychological forces in shaping the experience of people of color in the U.S. The importance of race in relationship to social identity variables including gender, class, and occupational, generational, and regional identifications. Bi- and multiracial identity status, and types of white racial consciousness.

3-5 units, Aut (LaFromboise, T)

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Undergraduate courses in Education