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2024-2025 Academic Year

Fall 2024

EDST 310 Policies Shaping American Educ
An examination of the policies that have shaped and continue to shape American Education within the broader context of American educational reform movements. Particular policy(ies) of focus each semester will be selected by the instructor. The course might include an in-depth examination of a particular policy such as school funding. Or, it might examine several policies around a broader concept such as inclusion which could include desegregation, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Title IX, and policies related to English Language Learners. Prerequisites: 120 or 130, and 260 or Social Science Research Methods (AFST 200, AMST 202, ANTH 240, ANTH 241, EASN 310, ECON 228, LAWP 228, PMGT 228, POSC 239, PSYC 211, SOCI 240, SOCI 244, or WGSS 200), or permission of instructor.

AFST 320 Teaching Blackness
Cross-listed with EDST 391-01. Part of the Atlantic Slave Trade Ghana Mosaic. While the class is open to all students, students in the Mosaic will be given priority. Since 2020, multiple states have moved to enact legislation that regulates how race and racism are discussed in K12 schools. For teachers, these laws have implications as it relates to the restrictions on pedagogical strategies that teachers can employ as well as the content they can draw on in their lessons. Drawing from historical events-- from the Transatlantic Slave Trade through the Black Lives Matter movement-- this course will a) examine how race has shaped the US political, economic, and social landscapes broadly, b) highlight a variety of approaches to teaching about race and racial events in schools, and c) analyze recent laws and policies that prohibit the teaching racial histories and events at the K12 and university levels. This course aims to facilitate and deepen students' understanding and analysis of Black racial histories in the US and abroad as well as introduce the methods and tactics that K12 and university educators use to navigate the contemporary legislation that prohibits the teaching of topics such as race, racism, diversity, and critical race theory.

EDST 391 Teaching Blackness
Cross-listed with AFST 320-03. Part of the Atlantic Slave Trade Ghana Mosaic. While the class is open to all students, students in the Mosaic will be given priority. Since 2020, multiple states have moved to enact legislation that regulates how race and racism are discussed in K12 schools. For teachers, these laws have implications as it relates to the restrictions on pedagogical strategies that teachers can employ as well as the content they can draw on in their lessons. Drawing from historical events-- from the Transatlantic Slave Trade through the Black Lives Matter movement-- this course will a) examine how race has shaped the US political, economic, and social landscapes broadly, b) highlight a variety of approaches to teaching about race and racial events in schools, and c) analyze recent laws and policies that prohibit the teaching racial histories and events at the K12 and university levels. This course aims to facilitate and deepen students' understanding and analysis of Black racial histories in the US and abroad as well as introduce the methods and tactics that K12 and university educators use to navigate the contemporary legislation that prohibits the teaching of topics such as race, racism, diversity, and critical race theory.

AFST 500 Ghanaian Women's advocacy for

EDST 550 Youth Organizations and Servic

Spring 2025

EDST 260 Intro to Educational Rsrch
An introduction to the purposes and methodologies of research in education including how various stakeholders in the educational community use and access research findings as well as how studies in education are designed, implemented, and disseminated. Quantitative, qualitative, and historical methodologies are addressed. Research processes are introduced around the topic of literacy. Students will develop a review of the research literature on a topic related to literacy using online catalogs, databases, and other open access resources to find and gather sources and digital publications formats to disseminate their reviews. Prerequisite: 140.

WGSS 302 Gender and Education
Cross-listed with EDST 330-01.

EDST 330 Gender and Education
Cross-listed with WGSS 302-04.

EDST 470 Senior Seminar
The design and implementation of a study in an individual area of interest within the major concentration culminating in the writing of a conference paper or publishable article. Students will develop a review of the related research literature on their chosen topic using on-line catalogs, databases and other open access resources to access sources, gather data related to their topic employing quantitative, qualitative, and/or historiographic methodologies enhanced by electronic devices as appropriate, analyze their data using digital software as appropriate, write a conference paper or publishable article, electronically submit their conference proposals/articles, and disseminate their work via conference, digital, or paper publication formats. Prerequisites: 120 or 130, and 140, 250, 260, 300 or 310.