Explores historical and contemporary purposes, practices, and political movements in education and their global influences. Attends to material, cultural, and social conditions and educational policies, past and present. Focuses on the intersections and interrelationships of contexts to the practice of education in diverse settings around the world.

Explores historical and contemporary purposes, practices, and political movements in education and their global influences. Attends to material, cultural, and social conditions and educational policies, past and present. Focuses on the intersections and interrelationships of contexts to the practice of education in diverse settings around the world.

Directed study of specific issues in education under the supervision of faculty.

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.

Examination of the educational experiences of African Americans from slavery through the present, paying attention to both formal and informal education.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data and to present results in writing and other relevant communication formats.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data and to present results in writing and other relevant communication formats.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data and to present results in writing and other relevant communication formats.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data. Students will write or produce a thesis or other professional capstone product, such as a report or portfolio that describes their systematic and in-depth inquiry.

An exploration of topics related to theories and/or practices in educational contexts, including pedagogies, policies, curricula, teachers, and students.

Race, gender, and class as explanatory frameworks for incidents in young children's everyday lives and approaches for culturally responsive teaching.

Families and their relationships with schools and communities, with consideration of how historical events related to issues of diversity impact these relationships. Implications for selected areas of practice, including school counseling, teaching, community development, and advocacy, are emphasized.