printer friendly pageEDUC 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.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 4
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Wolf, J. (PI)
EDUC 112X: Urban Education (AFRICAAM 112, EDUC 212X, SOC 129X, SOC 229X)
(Graduate students register for
EDUC 212X or
SOC 229X). Combination of social science and historical perspectives trace the major developments, contexts, tensions, challenges, and policy issues of urban education.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-4
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
EDUC 113X: Gender and Sexuality in Schools
Issues at the intersection of queer theory and educational practice. Experiences, rights, and responsibilities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and questioning students and teachers as members of marginalized or majority cultures.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 1-3
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UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
EDUC 114N: Growing Up Bilingual (CHICANST 14N, CSRE 14N)
This course is a Freshman Introductory Seminar that has as its purpose introducing students to the sociolinguistic study of bilingualism by focusing on bilingual communities in this country and on bilingual individuals who use two languages in their everyday lives. Much attention is given to the history, significance, and consequences of language contact in the United States. The course focuses on the experiences of long-term US minority populations as well as that of recent immigrants.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Valdes, G. (PI)
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.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
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.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Mitchell, T. (PI)
EDUC 117: Research and Policy on Postsecondary Access (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. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
EDUC 120C: Education and Society (EDUC 220C, SOC 130, SOC 230)
The effects of schools and schooling on individuals, the stratification system, and society. Education as socializing individuals and as legitimizing social institutions. The social and individual factors affecting the expansion of schooling, individual educational attainment, and the organizational structure of schooling.
Terms: given next year
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Units: 4-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
EDUC 120X: Sociology of Knowledge Creation (EDUC 320X, SOC 330)
The sociology of knowledge creation explores systematic relationships between thought and social structure in order to examine how human beings construct, interpret, and view reality. How knowledge is socially constructed, patterned, and used, and how everyday and tacit forms of knowledge are achieved. Emphasis is on the creation and patterning of scientific paradigms, social science disciplines, and the field of education.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-4
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
McFarland, D. (PI)
EDUC 121X: Hip Hop, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language (AFRICAAM 121X, AMSTUD 121X, ANTHRO 121A, CSRE 121X, LINGUIST 155)
Focus is on issues of language, identity, and globalization, with a focus on Hip Hop cultures and the verbal virtuosity within the Hip Hop nation. Beginning with the U.S., a broad, comparative perspective in exploring youth identities and the politics of language in what is now a global Hip Hop movement. Readings draw from the interdisciplinary literature on Hip Hop cultures with a focus on sociolinguistics and youth culture.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-4
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Alim, H. (PI)
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