Cultural Foundations, Technology and Qualitative Inquiry

Cultural Foundations Sample Courses

Listed below are are a few sample courses that are regularly offered by Cultural Foundations faculty:

717 (Comparative Education) Social and cultural factors influencing the differential development of educational institutions and organization.
601 (Children, Families and Communities in Conflict Transformation) Explores the meaning of conflict transformation. Special focus on how African children, families and communities participate in conflict transformation. Implications for US.
802 (Comparative Perspectives on Education and Democratization) - Cross-cultural and theoretical perspectives on the relationship between education and democratization. to the intellectual history of qualitative research and the analysis of interaction.
821 (Comparative Perspectives on Education in Latin America) - Comparative examination of the social and cultural contours of education through Latin America.

833 (The Politics of Curriculum Knowledge: Critical Issues in Curriculum) Examination of how politics, ideology, economics and cultural perspectives impact on curricular knowledge.
860 (Fundamentals of Curriculum) Designed to serve as an overview of the field of curriculum and instruction; kindergarten through 12th grade. 865 (Curriculum Theory) - Advanced study of curriculum; kindergarten through the 12th grade.

760 (Survey of Feminist Methodologies) - An overview of feminist methodological issues and dilemmas and an introduction to a variety of research methods.
853 (Women, Technology, and Education) Analysis of issues in the relationships between women's lives and technological development; exploration of current needed educational response to these issues.
849 (Feminist Perspectives of Women in Education) Examines current positions and conditions of female faculty and students in schools, colleges, and universities. Feminist scholarship provides theoretical lenses through which to consider the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class, and their impact on daily lives of women.
852 (A History of the Education of Women) - Investigation and critical analysis of selected educational theories by significant past and present theorists who have addressed the education of women.
871 (Theories of Gender in Education) Introduces major intellectual currents informing theories of gender in education.
904 (Women: Leadership and Empowerment) Focus on understanding and enacting leadership and empowerment that is congruent with women's lives and feminist perspectives.

863 (An Interpretive History of African-American Education: 1700-1950) -Designed to give students an understanding of the education of African-Americans from the perspective of African-American scholars.
834 (An Interpretative History of African American Education 1950 to 1990) - Examination of African American education from the perspective of African American scholars from the 1950s to the 1990s.

864 (Fundamentals of Instruction) - Survey of instructional theory and related behavioral science disciplines; emphasis is on application of principles of instructional theory to classroom teaching.
869 (Instructional Theory) Advanced study dealing with theoretical conceptions, basic principles, and generalized techniques involved in developing, executing, and evaluating instructional activities.