Courses
C&T 4002
This course offers different theoretical lenses to understand the overall educational significance of the curriculum, focusing especially upon interdisciplinary themes as well as the relations among curriculum, the individual, and society, and connects those lenses to the everyday practice of educators.
C&T 4005 Principles of teaching and learning
This course engages students in an examination of the principles of teaching, learning, and assessment; the philosophy, history, and politics of the American curriculum; the influence of foundational assumptions about schooling on global patterns in education; and teaching as a profession of social justice inquiry and reflection.
C&T 4032 Gender, difference, and curriculum
This course offers a multifaceted, interdisciplinary introduction to thinking about school curricula, policies, and practices as gendered. Gender will not be considered in isolation but as interwoven and complicated with cultural, racial, religious, class, and sexual identities, among others. The course materials will move beyond the identification of the problems to examine various efforts to create gender-sensitive curricula and programs.
C&T 4052 Designing curriculum and instruction
This course is a critical study of curriculum aims, theories, and frameworks for designing curriculum and instruction that go beyond the mere organization of content and creation of teaching materials. Students design theoretically-grounded curriculum in collaborative groups.
C&T 4130 Critical perspectives in elementary education
Critical examination of issues bearing on lived experiences, practices, and purposes of current elementary students. This class is focused on two questions of educational justice: What does a child have a right to, in their education, today, here, now? Where does or can, a child contribute to and be recognized in the classroom? Readings and other media include classroom studies, critical interventions in current events, and foundational texts for democratic, public education. Open to all; required for CUED students.
C&T 4145 Critical perspectives in secondary education
A comprehensive examination of adolescent development and learning as they relate to issues of curriculum, teaching, and learning. Open to all; required for CUSD students.
C&T 4502 Master's Project
MA-CURR students work to complete the required Master's integrative project. During the fall semester, students are supported to identify a sound topic of interest and create a project proposal to be completed independently in the spring semester. This course requires at least 30 hours of out-of-classroom work.
C&T 5004 School change
What does it take to improve schools and transform education? This course addresses this question by exploring why conventional models of schooling have been so resistant to change and discussing what can be done to create new schools and innovative approaches to learning, teaching, and education. The course mixes theory, research and practice by first introducing students to some of the seminal analyses of school improvement efforts over the last 50 years, and then in the second part of the course inviting students to apply what they have learned by creating collaborative designs for innovative schools and learning experiences.
C&T 6100
Required of and limited to first-year Ed.D students in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching; must be taken in the fall semester in conjunction with C&T 6101; C&T 6102 is required for all first-year Ed.D students in the following spring semester. Introduction to and exploration of important problems and issues in curriculum and teaching, methods of formulating questions, and modes of inquiry appropriate to doctoral-level research.
C&T 6532 Seminar in reading/language arts and related research
Permission required. Open only to advanced master's and doctoral students with a specialization in literacy or a related area who have completed recent methods courses in literacy. In-depth study and discussion of trends and issues in literacy development, instruction, and research.
C&T 7500 Dissertation seminar in curriculum and teaching
One semester required of all doctoral candidates in the department previous to or concurrent with the proposal hearing. The course focuses on the development of doctoral dissertations and presentation of proposals for approval.