ESSE 4510/6510. Children and Schools Abroad and in the United States. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: CHILD ABROAD & US.
Examination of childhood in the study-abroad program host nation and the United States to understand differences and similarities in early childhood education and schooling; emphases vary by host nation.
Non-traditional format: The course will include both seminar meetings and multiple visits to schools, day-care centers, and other venues for early childhood learning in the study-abroad host nation. Undergraduate students will read four books or the equivalent in other scholarly literature, write journal entries related to their observations and reflections, and prepare a final seminar paper of five to eight pages that integrates their seminar work and their immersion in the culture and educational institutions of the host nation. Graduate students will read six books or the equivalent in other scholarly literature and write a ten to fifteen page final research-based seminar paper on a topic related to the seminar work.
Offered summer semester every year.

ESSE(AFAM) 4515. History of African American Education. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: HIS AF AM ED.
Prerequisite: EDUC(EFND) 2110 or AFAM 2000 or permission of department.
Examination of the educational experiences of African Americans from slavery through the present, paying attention to both formal and informal education.
Offered every year.

(ESSE)CHFD 5150/7150. Families, Schools, and Communities. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: FAM SCH & COMMUN.
Not open to students with credit in EDEC 5150/7150.
Undergraduate prerequisite: EDEC(CHFD) 4020 and (CHFD 4860/6860 or CHFD 2896) and permission of department.
Graduate prerequisite: Permission of department.
Families and their relationship with schools and communities. Implications for selected areas of practice, such as early childhood educational practices, emphasized.
Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year.

ESSE 7550. The History of Teachers and Teaching in the United States. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: HIST OF TEACH IN US.
The social history of teachers and how they taught from colonial America to the present with an emphasis on how historical forces beyond educational institutions are implicated in changes in who teaches, how teachers teach, learning, and schools.