EFND 2030.
The School in United States Society.
3 hours.
2 hours lecture and 1 hour lab per week.
Oasis Title: SCHOOL US SOCIETY.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Investigation of formal education in American society, and of
the forces within society that shape and constrain schools.
Considers competing purposes for schools; impact of race, class,
gender, technology, and other forces on schools; contemporary
issues in education; rights and responsibilities of citizens,
teachers, and students; and other topics.
Non-traditional format: This course is also offered through University System of Georgia Independent Study (USGIS).
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
(EFND)EDUC 2110.
Investigating Critical and Contemporary Issues in Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: CRITICAL ISSUES ED.
Observations and analyses of critical educational issues
influencing the social and political contexts of educational
settings in Georgia and the United States. Students examine the
teaching profession, the meaning of education and schooling in a
diverse culture, and the moral and ethical responsibilities of
teaching.
Non-traditional format: This course is also offered through University System of
Georgia Independent and Distance Learning (IDL).
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.
(EFND)EDUC 2110H.
Investigating Critical and Contemporary Issues in Education (Honors).
3 hours.
3 hours lecture and 1-3 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: CRITICAL ISSUES ED.
Not open to students with credit in EDUC(EFND) 2110 or EDUC 2460.
Prerequisite: Permission of Honors.
Observations and analyses of critical educational issues
influencing the social and political contexts of educational
settings in Georgia and the United States. Students examine the
teaching profession, the meaning of education and schooling in
a diverse society, and the moral and ethical responsibilities
of teaching.
Non-traditional format: The course includes a required field experience component with
a minimum of 10 hours in a school, school-related, or community
setting, and focusing on consideration of issues related to
diversity that are also considered in the course.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
(EFND)EDUC 2120.
Exploring Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Diversity.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: SOC CULTURAL PSPCTV.
The fundamental knowledge of understanding culture and teaching
children from diverse backgrounds. Examination of the nature and
function of culture, development of individual and group cultural
identity, definitions and implications of diversity, and the
influences of culture on learning, development, and pedagogy.
This course has a required field experience component.
Non-traditional format: This course is also offered through University System of
Georgia Independent and Distance Learning (IDL).
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.
EFND 2120H.
Exploring Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Diversity (Honors).
3 hours.
3 hours lecture and 1-3 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: SOC CULTURAL PSPCTV.
Not open to students with credit in EDUC(EFND) 2120 or EDUC 2460.
Prerequisite: Permission of Honors.
Socio-cultural dimensions of teaching children from diverse
backgrounds. Nature and functions of culture, development of
individual and group cultural identities, different forms of
diversity and conceptions of culture, and implications for
learning, development, and pedagogy.
Non-traditional format: The course includes a required field experience component with a
minimum of 10 hours in a school, school-related, or community
setting, focusing on considerations of issues related to
diversity that are also considered in the course.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
EFND 4000/6000.
Special Problems in Social Foundations of Education.
1-6 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: SPEC PROBS IN FOUND.
Undergraduate prerequisite: Permission of department.
Study of a problem in social foundations of education through library research or collection and analysis of primary data.
Non-traditional format: Individual study supervised directly by a faculty member.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
EFND(HIST) 4010/6010.
The Hip-Hop Mind: History, Ideology, and Pedagogy.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: HIP-HOP MIND.
Examination of the history, ideology, and pedagogy of the Hip-Hop
generation (those born between 1965 and 1984). Focuses on the
connections of Hip-Hop to previous social, intellectual, and
pedagogical movements. The course is interactive, includes poetry
reading sessions, guest lecturers, and presentations by former
students of the course.
EFND 5310/7310.
Environmental Justice: Education, Culture, and Policy.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVIRONMENTAL JUST.
Critically examines interrelationships among education,
culture, and the environment within development. How race,
education level, socioeconomic status, income level, residence
location, and disempowerment victimize certain populations. Key
concepts include justice, injustice, determinism, possibilism,
technological materialism, exploitation, and equity. Considers
policies and practices producing unhealthy environments, and
strategies promoting environmental equity.
EFND 5311/7311.
Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees: Education and Policy ln Global Perspective.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: IMMIGRANTS REFUGEE.
Examination of the motives for and dynamics of population
movements of immigrants, migrants, and refugees and their
implications for schools and society in the United States and
other countries. Takes an interdiscipinary approach to study
relations among policy and practice, population shifts, and
education in sociocultural, political, and historical context.
EFND 7010.
Comparative and International Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: COMP & INTERNAT EDU.
Theory, policy, and practice in selected educational systems. Examines data and models from educational systems around the world. Critiques important themes: race, ethnicity, class, and gender; the role of education in national development; cross-cultural research; and major development in the methodology of comparative education.
Offered every year.
EFND 7040.
History of Education in the United States.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: HIST OF ED IN US.
Examination of changing forms, philosophical orientations, and operations of education in the United States from its colonial origins to the present. Includes consideration of both formal and informal education, though the emphasis is on formal institutions. Encompasses education from early childhood through various forms of adult education, and education of majority and minority populations.
Non-traditional format: Seminar.
EFND 7050.
Education, Schooling, and the Civil Rights Movement.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: SCH & CIVIL RIGHTS.
This seminar explores the ideological and activist intersections
between education, schooling, and civil rights in the twentieth
century. It examines topics such as school segregation and
desegregation, the freedom schools, the role of black teachers
during the black freedom struggle, and contemporary educational
issues related to civil rights.
EFND 7100.
Gender and Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: GENDER & EDUCATION.
Issues, research, theory, and policy on gender and education. Gender effects in socialization, schooling, and lifelong learning are analyzed for their implications for individuals, society, and culture.
Offered every year.
EFND 7110.
Race, Class, and Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: RACE CLASS AND ED.
Research and practice variations that impact individuals socially; constructed interactions, meaning and conceptions of racial and ethnic groups in United States society and social institutions. Topics include the historical, sociocultural, and schooling influences that inform and shape race, class, and schooling dynamics.
Offered every year.
EFND 7120.
Sociological Theories of Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: SOC THEOR OF EDU.
Theories of social structure, stratification, and social change. Relationships among social institutions and educational processes and outcomes, and how various social institutions contribute to the maintenance of existing structured inequalities.
Offered every year.
EFND 7140.
The Social and Cultural Contexts of Teaching.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: SOCIAL CULTURE TCHG.
Perspectives of education and schooling practices that shape teacher-student relations. Teacher preparation programs and school structures in United States society and how these contexts influence and organize the classroom community.
Offered every year.
EFND(ANTH) 7150.
Anthropology of Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ANTHROPOLOGY OF EDU.
Cultural aspects of educational processes, institutions, and issues in societies around the world organized around comparative analysis. Topics include education as cultural process and social function, as sociocultural structure, as cultural transaction, and as cultural product.
Offered every year.
EFND 7200.
Multicultural Education in the United States.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: MULTICULTURAL ED US.
Racial and cultural identity; ways oppression appears in students' lives and schooling policies and practices; connections between gender, feminist, and sexuality issues and education; relationships of empowerment to social changes, assessment, and evaluation; and associations among knowledge construction, culture, and the learning of school disciplines.
Offered every year.
EFND 7210.
Examining Race and Culture in Education Reform and Policy.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ED REFORM & POLICY.
How race and culture have historically shaped and continue to shape school reform and policy formation. Encourages students to explore and critically examine the underlying assumptions about the purpose of schooling, and the beliefs that undergird educational reform systems historically, and in contemporary society.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.
EFND 8010.
Philosophy of Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: PHILOSOPHY OF EDU.
Philosophical questions concerning education. Topics include metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical issues of teaching, curriculum, and educational institutions.
Offered every year.
EFND 8020.
Seminar in History of Education in the United States to 1900.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: SEMINAR HIST US ED.
Not open to students with credit in EFND 7020.
Examines changes and continuities in formal and informal educational structures from the early colonial era to the beginnings of progressive education. Gives particular consideration to the social, cultural, economic, and political contexts that sustained and transformed educational structures and opportunities, and includes female, Native American, and African American education.
Offered every year.
EFND 8030.
Seminar in History of Twentieth-Century Education in the United States.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: SEM HIS 20TH C ED.
Not open to students with credit in EFND 7030.
Examines the historical development of Progressive and post-Progressive education in the United States with particular emphasis on the economic, political, and social transformations that conditioned educational change during the century.
Offered every year.
EFND 8040.
Pragmatism and Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: PRAGMATISM EDU.
Educational writings of William James, Charles S. Pierce, and John Dewey.
Offered every year.
EFND 8060.
Social and Political Philosophies of Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: SOC POLIT PHILOS ED.
Analyzes educational problems from standpoint of various social and political theories. Theorists considered are Locke, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Dewey. Educational problems examined include authority, curriculum, public good, social oppression, and equality. Class presentations and papers focus on application of political theory to contemporary educational issues.
Offered every year.
EFND 8070.
Ethics and Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ETHICS & EDUC.
Theories of value and evaluation, ethical discourse and arguments, and other uses of ethics in educational writings.
Offered every year.
EFND 8080.
Contemporary Philosophies of Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: CONTEMP PHILOS EDU.
Recent developments in the field as revealed in current literature. Topics include foundationalism, self identity, multiculturalism, and equality as they pertain to education.
Offered every year.
EFND 8100.
History of Education in the United States: Historiography and Research Methods.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: HIST & RESEARCH.
Examines changing historiographic traditions in the history of United States education and provides training in the methods of historical research.
Not offered on a regular basis.
EFND 8110.
History of African American Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: HIS AFRICAN AMER ED.
This seminar explores the history of formal and informal education by and for African Americans throughout their history, in both slavery and freedom. It examines aspirations, ideas, institutions, and the uses to which black education has been put by both the black community and by the dominant society.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.
EFND(CHFD) 8120.
History of Childhood and the Family in the United States.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: HIS CDHOOD & FAMILY.
An examination of the changing experiences and forms of childhood and family life, as mediated by class and ethnicity,
over the course of United States history. Students will seek to relate those changing experiences and forms to their political, economic, and schooling contexts, and to consider explanations for their historical alterations.
EFND 8130.
Education as Democracy.
3 hours.
2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: EDUCATION DEMOCRACY.
Conceptions of public education congruent with principles of democratic society. Topics include foundational works, constitutional interpretations, traditional canons, multiculturalism, post-modernism/critical theory, and relationships between school reform and perspectives on American democracy.
Offered every year.
EFND 8150.
Education and Cultural Knowledge.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ED & CULTURAL KNOWL.
Transmission and transformation of cultural knowledge and symbolic orders in schools and other educational institutions around the world. How culture interacts with beliefs and knowledge and how teachers' and students' belief systems and cultural models interact in social contexts to contribute to continuity and change.
Offered every year.
EFND 8160.
Ethnography of Educational Organizations.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ETHNOG OF ED ORG.
Educational organizations around the world: their social structures, functions, and ideologies, supplemented by analysis of youth organizations and other agencies with educational goals.
Offered every year.
EFND(ESCI) 8210.
Multicultural Education Research.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: MULTIC ED RSCH.
Prerequisite: EFND 7200 and permission of department.
Using multicultural education research articles, chapters, and books; familiarization of seminal multicultural education research studies; and a critical analysis of the research done in one area are the foci of the course.
Not offered on a regular basis.
(EFND)ESCI 8310.
Inquiry of Eco-Justice Issues.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ECOJUSTICE ISSUES.
Prerequisite: EFND 5310/7310.
Environmental justice through applied eco-justice perspectives
and inquiry methods. Topics include an evaluation of local and
international ecological vulnerabilities, ethical
considerations, uncertainty thinking and advocacy, and related
methods for designing investigations of environmental
injustices and enclosures of eco-regions.
EFND 8330.
School Reform and Public Education.
3 hours.
2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: SCHOOL REFORM.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Current attempts to reform public education. Topics include elements of reforms and views of education, policies that obstruct or enhance change, and purposes and consequences of reforms as challenges to conceptions of education, schooling, and society.
Offered every year.
EFND 8400.
Critical Race Theory and Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: CRIT RACE THEORY ED.
The theoretical and ideological debates surrounding race identity, oppression, and power relationships. Particular attention is given to race and class theory analysis grounded in American culture, education, and society.
Offered every year.
EFND(AFST) 8410.
Education in the Black Diaspora: Identity, Community, and Contestation.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ED IN BLK DIASPORA.
Exploration of themes linking peoples of Africa and African
heritage in Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Topics to be
explored include Black Diaspora identity, the trans-Atlantic
slave trade, comparative slavery, African cultures and African
survivals in the New World, and the Pan-African Movement.
EFND 8450.
Cultural Politics of Post-Colonial Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: CULTURAL POLITICS.
Prerequisite: EFND 7100 or EFND 7110.
Education as a key institutional and discursive site where cultural forms and practices are constituted, transmitted, and transformed. Major twentieth-century options for theorizing cultural politics will be applied to a study of intersections of race, class, and gender, and their relationships with power structures as manifested in educational contexts.
Offered every year.
EFND 8500.
Research Design in Social Foundations of Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: RES DESIGN IN EFND.
Theoretical and ethical principles involved in designing and conducting foundations of education research: research question development, research document collection, literature reviews, sampling strategies, data collection. A variety of research approaches will be considered.
Offered every year.
EFND 8990.
Research Seminar in Social Foundations of Education.
1-12 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 12 hours credit.
Oasis Title: RES SEM FOUND ED.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Research design issues in social foundations of education.
Non-traditional format: A combination of lecture, discussion, and team research.
Offered every year.
EFND 9000.
Doctoral Research.
1-9 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DOCTORAL RESEARCH.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Research while enrolled for a doctoral degree under the direction of faculty members.
Non-traditional format: Independent research under the direction of a faculty member.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
EFND 9005.
Doctoral Graduate Student Seminar.
3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 45 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DOC GRAD STU SEM.
Advanced supervised experience in an applied setting. This course
may not be used to satisfy a student's approved program of study.
Non-traditional format: Seminar.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
EFND 9300.
Doctoral Dissertation.
1-9 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 30 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DOCT DISSERTATION.
Dissertation writing under the direction of the major professor.
Non-traditional format: Independent research and preparation of doctoral dissertation.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
EFND 9600.
Research in Social Foundations of Education.
1-9 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: RSCH SOC FOUND ED.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Directed independent research in social foundations of education.
Non-traditional format: Directed research.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
EFND 9630.
Critique of Educational Literature in Social Foundations of Education.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: CRIT LIT SOC FDNS.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Research and other literature in social foundations of education.
Offered every year.
EFND 9700.
Internship in Social Foundations of Education.
1-9 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: INTERN IN FOUND ED.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Supervised internship in instruction, curriculum development, supervision, or evaluation in social foundations of education.
Non-traditional format: Internship.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.