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Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	112	Global Education Through Film	Global	Online	Asynchronous	AHH (05/26/2026-07/19/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course counts as Humanities.	Introduces global educational issues, policies, and practices through films. Considers education in context, thinking critically about the role of education in the world and how education compares across issues, places, policies, and practices.
	140	Introduction to Education	Both	Online	Asynchronous	DHH (06/15/2026-08/09/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Considers core educational dilemmas in historical and global perspective. What’s the purpose of schools? Is schooling a public good or a private good? Do schools ameliorate or entrench inequality? Who should determine what is taught in schools and how? How do we know if schools are “working”?
	202	Careers in Education	U.S.	Online	Asynchronous	AHH (05/26/2026-07/19/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Communication B.	Explores the meaning, value, and potential of an education studies major for a variety of education-related careers in the contemporary workplace. Reviews the relationships among education, work, skills and society and analyses of contextual forces shaping education and the labor market (the Covid-19 pandemic, inequality and racism, and climate change).
	203	Internship in Education, Art, or Health	Both	Online	Asynchronous	DHH (06/15/2026-08/09/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		If you're in the School of Education, you can earn up to 3 academic credits for your internship or experience that connects with your field of study. Reflect and critically analyze your workplace experience in the field of education, arts, and/or health and enhance career opportunities through the exposure to the nexus of career development theory and practice.
	209	Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Education	Both	Online	Asynchronous	DHH (06/15/2026-08/09/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Quantitative B.	Sound education policy benefits from the use of reliable evidence, including good data and thorough analyses of both challenges and solutions. This course develops students’ understandings of existing data sets and their limitations, as well as how to perform different statistical analyses on those data sets in order to address specific policy questions.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	210	Youth, Education and Society	U.S.	Online	Asynchronous	DHH (06/15/2026-08/09/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.	Interrogates the concept of "youth" as a socially constructed category and examines how "youth" are positioned within educational, political, economic, and social contexts, with a particular focus on racially minoritized youth and those experiencing compounding layers of oppression. Explores themes such as: schooling; race; gender and sexuality; politics and activism; community-based learning; criminal justice; media; and popular culture. Draws on a variety of historical and contemporary "texts" and current events to study the lived experiences of young people situated within diverse racial, cultural, gendered, sexualized, and classed contexts. Students reflect on their own experiences as "youth," their relationship to education and other social institutions, and how it informs their understanding of society, educational theory and practice.
Social Justice and Education - Main Course	212	Education for Social Justice	Both	Online	Asynchronous	DHH (06/15/2026-08/09/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		What is education for social justice? In what circumstances has schooling been used for social change, and how? This course explores theories and practices of education for social justice, a pedagogical-political approach based on participatory methodologies that is committed to positive social change. This includes popular education, peace and human rights education, critical pedagogy, and related approaches. We will consider theoretical debates, focusing on the ideas of transformative educators such as Paulo Freire and bell hooks, even as we examine radical educator collectives and transformative education efforts in districts, schools, classrooms, community associations, and NGOs from around the world.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	220	Human Rights and Education	Both	Online	Asynchronous	BHH (06/01/2026-07/26/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Humanities.	Explores questions related to human rights and education, from the individual to the global level and from the abstract to the practical: What does it mean to be human? How do we learn to be human? What are human rights, and in what sense are they universal? What is the right to education, and what does it entail? What is human rights education? Focuses on educational case studies, including child rights, the war on drugs, and climate change.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course	240	Comparative Education	N/A	Online	Asynchronous	AHH (05/26/2026-07/19/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Examines the socio-cultural, political and economic forces that shape education around the world, including in the US. Explores a series of questions, including the purposes of schooling in different locations; the role of schooling in producing inequality or supporting social change, particularly in relation to class, race, gender, migration, language, and abilities; global educational reform; global educational assessments; student movements; and remote learning.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	300-1	School and Society	N/A	Online	Asynchronous	AHH (05/26/2026-07/19/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Asks how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools shape society. Examines political, social and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Considers various contemporary debates about public schooling. Critically examines how educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	300-2	School and Society	N/A	Online	Asynchronous	DHH (06/15/2026-08/09/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Asks how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools shape society. Examines political, social and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Considers various contemporary debates about public schooling. Critically examines how educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.
	305	Democracy and Education	U.S.	Online	Asynchronous	BHH (06/01/2026-07/26/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Communication B.	Examines the values embedded in notions of “democracy” and their relationship with education, the role of education in a democracy, how the context of America’s capitalist democracy shapes debates about the role of education in democratic life, and the possibilities for deepening the relationship between democracy and education.
International Development and Education - Elective	320	Climate Change, Sustainability & Education	Both	Online	Asynchronous	AHH (05/26/2026-07/19/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Natural Science.	Provides an overview of theories and models of human-earth relations, and the causes and consequences of climate and environmental change. Develops a critical, global approach to examining the role of education, in school and out, in addressing crucial climate and environmental challenges. Includes a wide range of educational theories, projects, programs, levels, institutions, strategies, and policies. Asks how concepts of human-earth relations influence climate change and explores approaches that promise for a more sustaining global future.
Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	335	Globalization and Education	Global	Online	Asynchronous	ZHH (05/18/2026-07/12/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Explores a range of questions, including: What is globalization? What are the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of globalization? How is globalization linked to colonialism and the historically uneven process of capitalist development? Does globalization expand economic growth, democracy, human rights, or does it exacerbate poverty, inequality, the exploitation of natural resources, and the suppression of human rights?
Social Justice and Education - Elective	412	History of American Education	N/A	Online	Asynchronous	BHH (06/01/2026-07/26/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Examines the history of education in America from the colonization of North America to the present to consider education in its broadest sense - as a process of individual development and cultural transmission. Explores such topics as the rise of common schools in the urban North; the education of Native Americans, immigrants, slaves, and free blacks; the evolution of teacher training (primarily for women); various philosophies of "progressive" school reform; the politics of desegregation, bilingual education, and special education; the articulation between high school and college work; and the evolving federal role in American education.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	560	Gender and Education	Both	Online	Asynchronous	DHH (06/15/2026-08/09/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Examines the relationship between gender and education and explores notions of gender as socially constructed categories and identities. Identifies the ways schools (re)produce and mediate gender identities and explore the experiences of students. Draws on critical and feminist perspectives to analyze the ways gender intersects with understandings of identity performance and expression such as masculinity and femininity, as well as at the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality in schooling processes.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course International Development and Education - Elective	570	Anthropology and Education	U.S.	Online	Asynchronous	BHH (06/01/2026-07/26/2026)	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course counts as Ethnic Studies.	Explores foundational concepts and methods of educational anthropology. Examines anthropological inquiry on educational research with particular reference to cultural perspectives on education and educational systems, learning as cultural transmission, and application of anthropological knowledge to curriculum.
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ED POL Fall 2026 Courses

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	107	History of the University in the West	Both	11:00-12:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.			Examines the development of higher education in Europe and the United States from the Middle Ages to the present. Asks how philosophy, pedagogy, people, politics, and places have shaped the intellectual and cultural history of the university.
Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	112-1	Global Education Through Film	Global	Online	Asynchronous	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course counts as Humanities.		Introduces global educational issues, policies, and practices through films. Considers education in context, thinking critically about the role of education in the world and how education compares across issues, places, policies, and practices.
	123	Education, Technology, and Society	U.S.	11:00-12:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Ran Liu	Technology today reflects and reproduces society’s dynamics of power and inequality more than ever before. A vast number of people now consume news and entertainment via content platforms that use algorithms which influence their media consumption. How does education fit into the mold? Technology’s relationship with schooling has been revolutionized because of the pandemic, and now students must learn in an age where they have large quantities of information and misinformation at their fingertips. In this course, you will learn about the relationship between technology, schooling and society, and the dilemmas, controversies, and consequences that come with it.
	134	Media Literacy and Misinformation in Education	Both	9:30-10:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.			Examines claims in education stories, the various forms of bias that surround them, and how our changing media landscape impacts what stories are told, who tells them and how they impact education policy and practice.
	140-1	Introduction to Education	Both	11:00-11:50	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.			Considers core educational dilemmas in historical and global perspective. What’s the purpose of schools? Is schooling a public good or a private good? Do schools ameliorate or entrench inequality? Who should determine what is taught in schools and how? How do we know if schools are “working”?
	140-2	Introduction to Education	Both	1:20-2:10	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.		Erica Ramberg	Considers core educational dilemmas in historical and global perspective. What’s the purpose of schools? Is schooling a public good or a private good? Do schools ameliorate or entrench inequality? Who should determine what is taught in schools and how? How do we know if schools are “working”?
	140-3	Introduction to Education	Both	12.05-12:55	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.		Erica Ramberg	Considers core educational dilemmas in historical and global perspective. What’s the purpose of schools? Is schooling a public good or a private good? Do schools ameliorate or entrench inequality? Who should determine what is taught in schools and how? How do we know if schools are “working”?
Social Justice and Education - Elective	143	History of Race and Inequality in Urban America	U.S.	2:25-3:15	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	This course can count as Humanities, Ethnic Studies, and Communication B.	Walter Stern	Examine the historical relationships between metropolitan change, economic transformation, and the construction of race and how those processes have shaped mass incarceration, educational, housing, and income inequality, and the experiences of racial/ethnic minorities who have been marginalized or discriminated against.
	150-1	School Choice in TV and Film	TBD	11:00-12:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Rachel Williams	Topics course which examines a variety of topics related to educational policies, practices, and issues in social, cultural, historical, and political economic contexts in the U.S. and around the world.
	150-2	Mental Health & Education Policy	Both	11:00-12:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Mary Michaud Davis	What factors influence mental health during childhood and youth? How can education policy and practice shape early experiences that support mental and emotional wellbeing over the lifecourse? In this interactive course, we will define key terms, explore current trends, highlight contemporary challenges, and review evidence-based models that influence mental and emotional wellbeing in childhood and beyond. We will primarily focus on U.S. systems, but the course includes comparative analysis of other countries’ approaches to mental and emotional wellbeing through education policy.
	150-3	Outdoor Strategies for Health & Learning	TBD	1:00-2:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Mary Michaud Davis	Topics course which examines a variety of topics related to educational policies, practices, and issues in social, cultural, historical, and political economic contexts in the U.S. and around the world.
	150-6/120	Environmental & Sustainability Education in WI Policy & Practice	U.S.	1:00-2:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Mark Johnson	Topics course which examines a variety of topics related to educational policies, practices, and issues in social, cultural, historical, and political economic contexts in the U.S. and around the world.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	160-1	Gender, Sexuality, and Education	Both	1:00-2:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Bailey Smolarek	This course examines the relationships between gender, sexuality, and education. Through a critical feminist lens, this course will critically examine the ways in which education and schooling are inextricably linked to broader political, social and economic contexts and structuring relations of power, including race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, religion, nation, and geography.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	160-2	Gender, Sexuality, and Education	Both	2:30-3:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Bailey Smolarek	This course examines the relationships between gender, sexuality, and education. Through a critical feminist lens, this course will critically examine the ways in which education and schooling are inextricably linked to broader political, social and economic contexts and structuring relations of power, including race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, religion, nation, and geography.
	163	History of Discrimination & Resistance at UW-Madison	U.S.	9:55-10:45	Mon.,Wed. & Fri.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Dan Berman	This course explores how discrimination and resistance manifested in the history of American higher education and society. Then using the University of Wisconsin – Madison and the city of Madison as a case study, it demonstrates how students, staff, and faculty experienced discrimination and fought against it.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective	197	Listening to the Land	Both	2:25-5:25	Tues.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Humanities and Ethnic Studies.		What if our best teacher is all around us, even under our feet? For Indigenous peoples, whose worldviews, languages, and lifeways emerge from, and sustain, reciprocal relations to place, land is always teaching. Reflect on "land as first teacher" by considering Indigenous approaches to learning, Indigenous languages in relation to land, and the current environmental health of land. Seeks to live the principles of Indigenous learning through Indigenous foodways and experiential, place-based learning activities. Together, develop a personal relationship to Teejop (Four Lakes, or the Madison region), and explore generational responsibilities to Teejop. What does the land teach? And how do people learn to listen?
Social Justice and Education - Elective	200-1	Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in American Education	U.S.	2:30-3:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.		Explores the complex relationships among race, ethnicity and inequality in U.S. public education. Examines how inequality is produced, reproduced, and resisted through schools and the "everyday" practices of teachers, students, parents, and community members. Asks how race and ethnicity intersect with other identities (e.g. gender, social class, sexual orientation, etc.). Focuses on K-12 educational and multicultural contexts.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	200-2	Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in American Education	U.S.	4:00-5:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.		Explores the complex relationships among race, ethnicity and inequality in U.S. public education. Examines how inequality is produced, reproduced, and resisted through schools and the "everyday" practices of teachers, students, parents, and community members. Asks how race and ethnicity intersect with other identities (e.g. gender, social class, sexual orientation, etc.). Focuses on K-12 educational and multicultural contexts.
	202 -2	Careers in Education	U.S.	8:00-9:15	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Communication B.	Jin Jang-Tucci	Explores the meaning, value, and potential of an education studies major for a variety of education-related careers in the contemporary workplace. Reviews the relationships among education, work, skills and society and analyses of contextual forces shaping education and the labor market (the Covid-19 pandemic, inequality and racism, and climate change).
	203	Internship in Education, Art, or Health	Both	Online	#N/A	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		SoE Career Center	If you're in the School of Education, you can earn up to 3 academic credits for your internship or experience that connects with your field of study. Reflect and critically analyze your workplace experience in the field of education, arts, and/or health and enhance career opportunities through the exposure to the nexus of career development theory and practice.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course	205	Language and Social Inequality	Both	2:30-3:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Edgar Valles	Examine cultural and language politics, policies, and practices in education. Read in the fields of anthropology, sociolinguistics, and language policy to consider how language policies, politics, and practices either reinforce or reduce educational and social inequality in the U.S. Participate in a community-based learning site in order to put concepts from the course into practice and learn about possible careers in education.
	209*	Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Education	Both	1:00-2:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Quantitative B.	Amy Claessens	Sound education policy benefits from the use of reliable evidence, including good data and thorough analyses of both challenges and solutions. This course develops students’ understandings of existing data sets and their limitations, as well as how to perform different statistical analyses on those data sets in order to address specific policy questions.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	210-1	Youth, Education and Society	U.S.	9:55-10:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.	Naomi Mae	Interrogates the concept of "youth" as a socially constructed category and examines how "youth" are positioned within educational, political, economic, and social contexts, with a particular focus on racially minoritized youth and those experiencing compounding layers of oppression. Explores themes such as: schooling; race; gender and sexuality; politics and activism; community-based learning; criminal justice; media; and popular culture. Draws on a variety of historical and contemporary "texts" and current events to study the lived experiences of young people situated within diverse racial, cultural, gendered, sexualized, and classed contexts. Students reflect on their own experiences as "youth," their relationship to education and other social institutions, and how it informs their understanding of society, educational theory and practice.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	210-2	Youth, Education and Society	U.S.	11:00-11:50	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.	Anthony Hernandez	Interrogates the concept of "youth" as a socially constructed category and examines how "youth" are positioned within educational, political, economic, and social contexts, with a particular focus on racially minoritized youth and those experiencing compounding layers of oppression. Explores themes such as: schooling; race; gender and sexuality; politics and activism; community-based learning; criminal justice; media; and popular culture. Draws on a variety of historical and contemporary "texts" and current events to study the lived experiences of young people situated within diverse racial, cultural, gendered, sexualized, and classed contexts. Students reflect on their own experiences as "youth," their relationship to education and other social institutions, and how it informs their understanding of society, educational theory and practice.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	210-3	Youth, Education and Society	U.S.	1:20-2:10	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.	Anthony Hernandez	Interrogates the concept of "youth" as a socially constructed category and examines how "youth" are positioned within educational, political, economic, and social contexts, with a particular focus on racially minoritized youth and those experiencing compounding layers of oppression. Explores themes such as: schooling; race; gender and sexuality; politics and activism; community-based learning; criminal justice; media; and popular culture. Draws on a variety of historical and contemporary "texts" and current events to study the lived experiences of young people situated within diverse racial, cultural, gendered, sexualized, and classed contexts. Students reflect on their own experiences as "youth," their relationship to education and other social institutions, and how it informs their understanding of society, educational theory and practice.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	210-4	Youth, Education and Society	U.S.	2:30-3:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.	Anthony Hernandez	Interrogates the concept of "youth" as a socially constructed category and examines how "youth" are positioned within educational, political, economic, and social contexts, with a particular focus on racially minoritized youth and those experiencing compounding layers of oppression. Explores themes such as: schooling; race; gender and sexuality; politics and activism; community-based learning; criminal justice; media; and popular culture. Draws on a variety of historical and contemporary "texts" and current events to study the lived experiences of young people situated within diverse racial, cultural, gendered, sexualized, and classed contexts. Students reflect on their own experiences as "youth," their relationship to education and other social institutions, and how it informs their understanding of society, educational theory and practice.
Social Justice and Education - Main Course	212-1	Education for Social Justice	Both	8:00-9:15	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Anthony Hernandez	What is education for social justice? In what circumstances has schooling been used for social change, and how? This course explores theories and practices of education for social justice, a pedagogical-political approach based on participatory methodologies that is committed to positive social change. This includes popular education, peace and human rights education, critical pedagogy, and related approaches. We will consider theoretical debates, focusing on the ideas of transformative educators such as Paulo Freire and bell hooks, even as we examine radical educator collectives and transformative education efforts in districts, schools, classrooms, community associations, and NGOs from around the world.
	215	Disability and Education Policy	U.S.	4:00-5:15	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.			Examines how policies shape the educational experiences of students with disabilities in education and the broader educational landscape.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	220-1	Human Rights and Education	Both	2:30-3:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Humanities.	Diana Rodriguez-Gomez	Explores questions related to human rights and education, from the individual to the global level and from the abstract to the practical: What does it mean to be human? How do we learn to be human? What are human rights, and in what sense are they universal? What is the right to education, and what does it entail? What is human rights education? Focuses on educational case studies, including child rights, the war on drugs, and climate change.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	220-2	Human Rights and Education	Both	8:00-9:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Humanities.	Kelsey Dalrymple	Explores questions related to human rights and education, from the individual to the global level and from the abstract to the practical: What does it mean to be human? How do we learn to be human? What are human rights, and in what sense are they universal? What is the right to education, and what does it entail? What is human rights education? Focuses on educational case studies, including child rights, the war on drugs, and climate change.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	220-3	Human Rights and Education	Both	9:30-10:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Humanities.	Kelsey Dalrymple	Explores questions related to human rights and education, from the individual to the global level and from the abstract to the practical: What does it mean to be human? How do we learn to be human? What are human rights, and in what sense are they universal? What is the right to education, and what does it entail? What is human rights education? Focuses on educational case studies, including child rights, the war on drugs, and climate change.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course	240-1	Comparative Education	N/A	9:55-10:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.		Jennifer Otting	Examines the socio-cultural, political and economic forces that shape education around the world, including in the US. Explores a series of questions, including the purposes of schooling in different locations; the role of schooling in producing inequality or supporting social change, particularly in relation to class, race, gender, migration, language, and abilities; global educational reform; global educational assessments; student movements; and remote learning.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course	240-2	Comparative Education	N/A	12:05-12:55	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.		Jennifer Otting	Examines the socio-cultural, political and economic forces that shape education around the world, including in the US. Explores a series of questions, including the purposes of schooling in different locations; the role of schooling in producing inequality or supporting social change, particularly in relation to class, race, gender, migration, language, and abilities; global educational reform; global educational assessments; student movements; and remote learning.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	250	Incarceration and Education	U.S.	11:00-12:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Simone Schweber	Investigates how the systems of incarceration and education operate alongside, within, around and through one another. Provides a historical examination of how education and incarceration have interacted. Examines how prisons operate as 'teaching institutions,' what it teaches all of us impacted by it, and what interventions have been designed to facilitate particular kinds of learning. Presents firsthand accounts of those who work and live in the carceral system currently.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	300-1	School and Society	N/A	11:00-11:50	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.		Edgar Valles	Asks how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools shape society. Examines political, social and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Considers various contemporary debates about public schooling. Critically examines how educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	300-2	School and Society	N/A	12:05-12:55	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.		Edgar Valles	Asks how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools shape society. Examines political, social and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Considers various contemporary debates about public schooling. Critically examines how educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	300-3	School and Society	N/A	1:20-2:10	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.		Jennifer Otting	Asks how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools shape society. Examines political, social and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Considers various contemporary debates about public schooling. Critically examines how educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	300-4	School and Society	N/A	8:50-9:40	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.		Jennifer Otting	Asks how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools shape society. Examines political, social and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Considers various contemporary debates about public schooling. Critically examines how educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	300-5	School and Society	N/A	1:30-4:30	Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Simone Schweber	Asks how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools shape society. Examines political, social and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Considers various contemporary debates about public schooling. Critically examines how educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.
	305-1	Democracy and Education	U.S.	8:00-9:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Communication B.	Max Yakubovskiy	Examines the values embedded in notions of “democracy” and their relationship with education, the role of education in a democracy, how the context of America’s capitalist democracy shapes debates about the role of education in democratic life, and the possibilities for deepening the relationship between democracy and education.
	308	Intro to Qualitative Research Methods for Education	Both	11:00-12:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Kelsey Dalrymple	In this course you will learn how to develop a research question, conduct interviews and observations, and other qualitative research approaches by doing a hands-on research project.
International Development and Education - Elective	320-1	Climate Change, Sustainability & Education	Both	11:00-11:50	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	This course can count as Natural Science.		Provides an overview of theories and models of human-earth relations, and the causes and consequences of climate and environmental change. Develops a critical, global approach to examining the role of education, in school and out, in addressing crucial climate and environmental challenges. Includes a wide range of educational theories, projects, programs, levels, institutions, strategies, and policies. Asks how concepts of human-earth relations influence climate change and explores approaches that promise for a more sustaining global future.
International Development and Education - Elective	320-2	Climate Change, Sustainability & Education	Both	1:20-2:25	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	This course can count as Natural Science.		Provides an overview of theories and models of human-earth relations, and the causes and consequences of climate and environmental change. Develops a critical, global approach to examining the role of education, in school and out, in addressing crucial climate and environmental challenges. Includes a wide range of educational theories, projects, programs, levels, institutions, strategies, and policies. Asks how concepts of human-earth relations influence climate change and explores approaches that promise for a more sustaining global future.
Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	335	Globalization and Education	Global	4:00-5:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Elena Aydarova	Explores a range of questions, including: What is globalization? What are the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of globalization? How is globalization linked to colonialism and the historically uneven process of capitalist development? Does globalization expand economic growth, democracy, human rights, or does it exacerbate poverty, inequality, the exploitation of natural resources, and the suppression of human rights?
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	337	Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality	Both	1:00-2:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Kelsey Dalrymple	How are wealth, poverty, and inequality defined and understood? How are they informed by histories of colonization, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and dispossession? How do power relations of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, citizenship, nation, religion, language, and geography influence them? What are the historical and current theoretical and practical debates on poverty and ending poverty in the U.S. and globally? How do wealth, poverty, and inequality influence education, and how does education influence wealth, poverty, and inequality? What is the history of educational interventions purportedly charged with ameliorating poverty? What is our own relationship to poverty, wealth, and inequality? Ed Pol 237 will address these questions from a theoretical, historical, and practical perspective by providing an introduction to historical and contemporary debates on wealth, poverty and inequality. In doing so, the course will interrogate these debates in relation to the polities, practices, and institutions of education, and examine their articulations with relations of power like white supremacy, anti-blackness, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and classism.
	350-1	Teaching & Learning in Diverse Spaces	Both	9:30-10:45	#N/A	This course doesn't have discussion sections.			In this course students will explore and discuss research and perspectives on learner-centered teaching. Students will also learn teaching practices that are effective across diverse learning environments such as afterschool programs, non-profit organizations like museums and the Peace Corps, teaching assistant positions in graduate school, and K-12 school environments. These practices revolve around the careful alignment of learning objectives, instructional methods, and assessment activities. Principles of equity, social justice, and empowerment are central to these practices.
	350-3/417	Health, Nutrition, and Education Policy	Both	9:30-10:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Mary Michaud Davis	The Health, Nutrition, and Education Policy course offers a comprehensive look at how policy decisions in these vital areas impact public well-being. By examining the interconnectedness of health, nutrition, and education systems, you will gain valuable insights into creating equitable, sustainable policies that foster healthier communities. Through a mix of theory, case studies, and hands-on policy design, this course empowers you to critically assess current policies and propose innovative solutions for pressing global challenges in public health and education. Whether you're interested in public health, education reform, or nutrition advocacy, this course equips you with the knowledge and skills to make a meaningful impact.
	355	The Politics of Education Injustice in the US	U.S.	2:30-3:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.	Rachel Williams	Public education in the United States is an inherently political site that offers an important institution to understand politics, power, and injustice broadly. This course considers the politics of education in relation to broader social, spatial, historical, and political economic contexts.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	412	History of American Education	N/A	9:55-10:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.		Walter Stern	Examines the history of education in America from the colonization of North America to the present to consider education in its broadest sense - as a process of individual development and cultural transmission. Explores such topics as the rise of common schools in the urban North; the education of Native Americans, immigrants, slaves, and free blacks; the evolution of teacher training (primarily for women); various philosophies of "progressive" school reform; the politics of desegregation, bilingual education, and special education; the articulation between high school and college work; and the evolving federal role in American education.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	460	Immigration, Education and Equity	Both	4:00-5:15	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.	Edgar Valles	Examines policy issues surrounding the education of children from immigrant families in K-16 educational settings in the U.S. Through readings, discussions, and assignments, participants examine the economic, social, political, and ideological contexts of immigration and education, as well as school factors and home-school relations. We also consider the impact of various policy and pedagogical approaches. Course readings draw from relevant literature in educational anthropology, sociology of education, educational policy, sociolinguistics, and language pedagogy.
	518	Introduction to Higher Education Policy	U.S.	2:30-3:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Taylor Odle	This course explores the sociocultural tensions among key policy goals such as quality, equity, and efficiency, and the results (including unintended consequences) of those tensions. Examines the theory and research brought to bear on policy debates, and how they are used-or not used-to shape policy agendas.
	535	Introduction to Social Theory & Education	Both	2:30-3:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		John Baldacchino	Apart from surveying major themes associated with Critical Theory as it emerged from the 18th century to the present, in this class we will travel through notions of criticality over the horizon of education. The aim is to take an approach to ideas of equity, social justice, and conviviality from a wider intersectional perspective of difference and identity. Special attention will be given to current issues and how criticality in education plays its role in an age of populism and anti-politics. This class aims at an interest in forms of thinking and doing that help us problematize what appears to be immediate and fatalistically intractable—as often we are led to believe when we are told that individualism and happiness are just a matter of “winning” while equality and social justice belong to the language of “losers”. While a humane, just, and equitable society is often made to sound more aspirational than real, it is the sense of critical hope that urges us to engage with the present so we can identify better possibilities for the future of society and education.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	540	Egalitarianism and Educational Justice	Both	1:00-2:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course counts as Humanities.	David O'Brien	Examines significant disagreements about educational justice-about the very concept of educational justice; about the most plausible substantive account of educational justice and the way that an ideal of equality bears on it; and about what kinds of policies the most plausible account of educational justice would require in circumstances like our own. Introduces tools that contemporary moral and political philosophers use to investigate those questions. Understand and evaluate efforts to resolve those questions.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course International Development and Education - Elective	570	Anthropology and Education	U.S.	2:30-3:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course counts as Ethnic Studies.		Explores foundational concepts and methods of educational anthropology. Examines anthropological inquiry on educational research with particular reference to cultural perspectives on education and educational systems, learning as cultural transmission, and application of anthropological knowledge to curriculum.
	580	Participatory and Community-Based Research and Evaluation	Both	2:25-5:25	Mon.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Naomi Mae	This course teaches the goals, purposes and methods associated with community-engaged, participatory research and evaluation, including the following: 1) the political and philosophical underpinnings of the approach, and specifically of participatory action research (PAR); 2) qualitative research methods; 3) examples of community-engaged, participatory studies.
	622	History of Radical and Experimental Education in the US and UK	Both	2:25-5:25	Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course counts as Ethnic Studies and Humanities.	Adam Nelson	In this course, you'll examine the comparative history of radical and experimental education in the United States and United Kingdom since 1800. It focuses on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of diverse educational experiments, including experiments related to socialism, abolitionism, anarchism, and religious fundamentalism.
	665	History of the Federal Role in Education	U.S.	2:25-5:25	Tues.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.		Adam Nelson	Examines the history of federal aid to education from 1776 to the present, with heavy emphasis on the post-World War II period. Explores the federal role in public education in the Early Republic and during Reconstruction; Traces the evolution of federal policies concerning racial desegregation, compensatory education for low-income students, bilingual education, and special education for the disabled.
	680	Educational Policy Studies Honors Capstone	N/A	9:30-10:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	EPS Capstone Honors course and is only offered in the Fall.	Lesley Bartlett	This course requires declaration in Educational Policy Studies BS Honors in the Major. Develop a capstone project reflecting expertise in existing research on an issue or question of interest. Engage in interdisciplinary conversations, consider pressing issues in education, explore potential professional and academic trajectories, and prepare for future careers and graduate education.
	688	Introduction to Survey Methods for Education Research	Both	2:25-5:25	Tues.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	This course counts as an elective for the EPS Honors Program.	Ran Liu	Learn and engage with conceptual and practical tools for planning, designing, and conducting survey research on education-related issues. This course provides an overview of principles in survey methods and relevant issues, including data collection modes, sampling methods, questionnaires and measurement design, possible sources of bias and errors, non-response, and other extended topics.
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Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	112-1	Global Education Through Film	Global	Online	Asynchronous	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Anshu Jain	Introduces global educational issues, policies, and practices through films. Considers education in context, thinking critically about the role of education in the world and how education compares across issues, places, policies, and practices.	This course counts as Humanities.
Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	112-2	Global Education Through Film	Global	Online	Asynchronous	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	TBD	Introduces global educational issues, policies, and practices through films. Considers education in context, thinking critically about the role of education in the world and how education compares across issues, places, policies, and practices.	This course counts as Humanities.
	134	Media Literacy and Misinformation in Education	Both	2:30-3:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Matthew Wolfgram	Examines claims in education stories, the various forms of bias that surround them, and how our changing media landscape impacts what stories are told, who tells them and how they impact education policy and practice.
	140-1	Introduction to Education	Both	1:20-2:10	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Erica Ramberg	Considers core educational dilemmas in historical and global perspective. What’s the purpose of schools? Is schooling a public good or a private good? Do schools ameliorate or entrench inequality? Who should determine what is taught in schools and how? How do we know if schools are “working”?
	140-2	Introduction to Education	Both	12:05-12:55	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Erica Ramberg	Considers core educational dilemmas in historical and global perspective. What’s the purpose of schools? Is schooling a public good or a private good? Do schools ameliorate or entrench inequality? Who should determine what is taught in schools and how? How do we know if schools are “working”?
Social Justice and Education - Elective	143	History of Race and Inequality in Urban America	U.S.	9:55-10:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Walter Stern	Examine the historical relationships between metropolitan change, economic transformation, and the construction of race and how those processes have shaped mass incarceration, educational, housing, and income inequality, and the experiences of racial/ethnic minorities who have been marginalized or discriminated against.	This course can count as Humanities, Ethnic Studies, and Communication B.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	145	Introduction to Education Policy	U.S.	1:00-2:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Erica Turner	Introduction to K-12 education policy, policy processes, and school governance in the United States. This course examines the multiple and sometimes conflicting goals that animate education debates; the discourses and representations of schools, students, and education policies that shape policy and politics; research on education and education policy; and the various lenses and conceptual tools that can help us understand education policy. Includes original policy texts, empirical and conceptual research, current events, and film.
	147	Ethics and Education	Both	9:30-10:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	David O'Brien	What justifies educating people, in the first place? What does equity in education require? Who has the proper authority to make decisions about education? Learn about analytic tools that educational ethicists use to investigate foundational and applied questions. Understand and evaluate major views on a range of such foundational and applied issues in educational ethics.	This course can count as Humanities and Communication B.
	150-3	Mental Health and Education	Both	11:00-12:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Mary Davis Michaud	What factors influence mental health during childhood and youth? How can education policy and practice shape early experiences that support mental and emotional wellbeing over the lifecourse? In this interactive course, we will define key terms, explore current trends, highlight contemporary challenges, and review evidence-based models that influence mental and emotional wellbeing in childhood and beyond. We will primarily focus on U.S. systems, but the course includes comparative analysis of other countries’ approaches to mental and emotional wellbeing through education policy.
	150-5/163	History of Discrimination & Resistance at UW-Madison	U.S.	11:00-11:50	Mon.,Wed. & Fri.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Dan Berman	This course explores how discrimination and resistance manifested in the history of American higher education and society. Then using the University of Wisconsin – Madison and the city of Madison as a case study, it demonstrates how students, staff, and faculty experienced discrimination and fought against it.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	200-2	Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in American Education	U.S.	2:30-3:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Emily Miller	Explores the complex relationships among race, ethnicity and inequality in U.S. public education. Examines how inequality is produced, reproduced, and resisted through schools and the "everyday" practices of teachers, students, parents, and community members. Asks how race and ethnicity intersect with other identities (e.g. gender, social class, sexual orientation, etc.). Focuses on K-12 educational and multicultural contexts.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.
	203	Internship in Education, Art, or Health	Both	Online	Asynchronous	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Michael Rutkowski	If you're in the School of Education, you can earn up to 3 academic credits for your internship or experience that connects with your field of study. Reflect and critically analyze your workplace experience in the field of education, arts, and/or health and enhance career opportunities through the exposure to the nexus of career development theory and practice.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course	205	Language and Social Inequality	Both	4-5:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Edgar Valles	Examine cultural and language politics, policies, and practices in education. Read in the fields of anthropology, sociolinguistics, and language policy to consider how language policies, politics, and practices either reinforce or reduce educational and social inequality in the U.S. Participate in a community-based learning site in order to put concepts from the course into practice and learn about possible careers in education.
	209-1	Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Education	Both	1:00-2:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Amy Claessens	Sound education policy benefits from the use of reliable evidence, including good data and thorough analyses of both challenges and solutions. This course develops students’ understandings of existing data sets and their limitations, as well as how to perform different statistical analyses on those data sets in order to address specific policy questions.	This course can count as Quantitative B.
	209-2	Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Education	Both	1-2:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Carla Glave	Sound education policy benefits from the use of reliable evidence, including good data and thorough analyses of both challenges and solutions. This course develops students’ understandings of existing data sets and their limitations, as well as how to perform different statistical analyses on those data sets in order to address specific policy questions.	This course can count as Quantitative B.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	210-1	Youth, Education and Society	U.S.	9:55-10:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Anthony Hernandez	Interrogates the concept of "youth" as a socially constructed category and examines how "youth" are positioned within educational, political, economic, and social contexts, with a particular focus on racially minoritized youth and those experiencing compounding layers of oppression. Explores themes such as: schooling; race; gender and sexuality; politics and activism; community-based learning; criminal justice; media; and popular culture. Draws on a variety of historical and contemporary "texts" and current events to study the lived experiences of young people situated within diverse racial, cultural, gendered, sexualized, and classed contexts. Students reflect on their own experiences as "youth," their relationship to education and other social institutions, and how it informs their understanding of society, educational theory and practice.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	210-2	Youth, Education and Society	U.S.	11:00-11:50	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Anthony Hernandez	Interrogates the concept of "youth" as a socially constructed category and examines how "youth" are positioned within educational, political, economic, and social contexts, with a particular focus on racially minoritized youth and those experiencing compounding layers of oppression. Explores themes such as: schooling; race; gender and sexuality; politics and activism; community-based learning; criminal justice; media; and popular culture. Draws on a variety of historical and contemporary "texts" and current events to study the lived experiences of young people situated within diverse racial, cultural, gendered, sexualized, and classed contexts. Students reflect on their own experiences as "youth," their relationship to education and other social institutions, and how it informs their understanding of society, educational theory and practice.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	210-3	Youth, Education and Society	U.S.	1:20-2:10	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Anthony Hernandez	Interrogates the concept of "youth" as a socially constructed category and examines how "youth" are positioned within educational, political, economic, and social contexts, with a particular focus on racially minoritized youth and those experiencing compounding layers of oppression. Explores themes such as: schooling; race; gender and sexuality; politics and activism; community-based learning; criminal justice; media; and popular culture. Draws on a variety of historical and contemporary "texts" and current events to study the lived experiences of young people situated within diverse racial, cultural, gendered, sexualized, and classed contexts. Students reflect on their own experiences as "youth," their relationship to education and other social institutions, and how it informs their understanding of society, educational theory and practice.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.
Social Justice and Education - Main Course	212-1	Education for Social Justice	Both	8:00-9:15	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Anthony Hernandez	What is education for social justice? In what circumstances has schooling been used for social change, and how? This course explores theories and practices of education for social justice, a pedagogical-political approach based on participatory methodologies that is committed to positive social change. This includes popular education, peace and human rights education, critical pedagogy, and related approaches. We will consider theoretical debates, focusing on the ideas of transformative educators such as Paulo Freire and bell hooks, even as we examine radical educator collectives and transformative education efforts in districts, schools, classrooms, community associations, and NGOs from around the world.
	215	Disability and Education Policy	U.S.	11:00-12:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Amy Fisher	Examines how policies shape the educational experiences of students with disabilities in education and the broader educational landscape.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	220-1	Human Rights and Education	Both	2:30-3:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Mary Davis Michaud	Explores questions related to human rights and education, from the individual to the global level and from the abstract to the practical: What does it mean to be human? How do we learn to be human? What are human rights, and in what sense are they universal? What is the right to education, and what does it entail? What is human rights education? Focuses on educational case studies, including child rights, the war on drugs, and climate change.	This course can count as Humanities.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	220-3	Human Rights and Education	Both	1:00-2:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Kelsey Dalrymple	Explores questions related to human rights and education, from the individual to the global level and from the abstract to the practical: What does it mean to be human? How do we learn to be human? What are human rights, and in what sense are they universal? What is the right to education, and what does it entail? What is human rights education? Focuses on educational case studies, including child rights, the war on drugs, and climate change.	This course can count as Humanities.
	222	Indigenous Education Policy & Practice	Both	2:30-3:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Reynaldo Morales	Examines concepts of sovereignty and educational policy formation for First Nations Peoples in the U.S. and key educational policies, practices, and contexts that have shaped American Indian education. Explores the 11 federally recognized tribes of Wisconsin, their sovereignty, and educational issues facing them and other tribal nations.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course	240-1	Comparative Education	N/A	9:55-10:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Jennifer Otting	Examines the socio-cultural, political and economic forces that shape education around the world, including in the US. Explores a series of questions, including the purposes of schooling in different locations; the role of schooling in producing inequality or supporting social change, particularly in relation to class, race, gender, migration, language, and abilities; global educational reform; global educational assessments; student movements; and remote learning.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course	240-2	Comparative Education	N/A	12:05-12:55	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Jennifer Otting	Examines the socio-cultural, political and economic forces that shape education around the world, including in the US. Explores a series of questions, including the purposes of schooling in different locations; the role of schooling in producing inequality or supporting social change, particularly in relation to class, race, gender, migration, language, and abilities; global educational reform; global educational assessments; student movements; and remote learning.
Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	245	Education in East Asia	Global	11:00-12:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Ran Liu	Learn about the values, histories, systems, policies, problems, and reforms of education in East Asian societies. You'll examine extended issues in comparative education, including education and its relation to economic development, social inequality and stratification, gender and family, ethnicity and migration, identity formation, and student movements.
International Development and Education - Main Course Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective	260	Intro to International Education Development	Global	2:30-3:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Jennifer Otting	This course reviews theories regarding the relationship between education and development, discusses institutions in international educational development, and considers key issues and approaches to international development.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	300-1	School and Society	N/A	11:00-11:50	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Edgar Valles	Asks how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools shape society. Examines political, social and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Considers various contemporary debates about public schooling. Critically examines how educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	300-2	School and Society	N/A	1:20-2:10	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Edgar Valles	Asks how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools shape society. Examines political, social and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Considers various contemporary debates about public schooling. Critically examines how educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	300-3	School and Society	N/A	8:50-9:40	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Jennifer Otting	Asks how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools shape society. Examines political, social and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Considers various contemporary debates about public schooling. Critically examines how educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	300-4	School and Society	N/A	12:05-12:55	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Edgar Valles	Asks how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools shape society. Examines political, social and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Considers various contemporary debates about public schooling. Critically examines how educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	300-5	School and Society	N/A	4:30-5:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Emily Miller	Asks how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools shape society. Examines political, social and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Considers various contemporary debates about public schooling. Critically examines how educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.
	305-1	Democracy and Education	U.S.	1:00-2:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Micaela Wensjoe	Examines the values embedded in notions of “democracy” and their relationship with education, the role of education in a democracy, how the context of America’s capitalist democracy shapes debates about the role of education in democratic life, and the possibilities for deepening the relationship between democracy and education.	This course can count as Communication B.
	308	Intro to Qualitative Research Methods for Education	Both	11:00-12:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Kelsey Dalrymple	In this course you will learn how to develop a research question, conduct interviews and observations, and other qualitative research approaches by doing a hands-on research project.
International Development and Education - Elective	320-1	Climate Change, Sustainability & Education	Both	11:00-11:50	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Reynaldo Morales	Provides an overview of theories and models of human-earth relations, and the causes and consequences of climate and environmental change. Develops a critical, global approach to examining the role of education, in school and out, in addressing crucial climate and environmental challenges. Includes a wide range of educational theories, projects, programs, levels, institutions, strategies, and policies. Asks how concepts of human-earth relations influence climate change and explores approaches that promise for a more sustaining global future.	This course can count as Natural Science.
International Development and Education - Elective	320-2	Climate Change, Sustainability & Education	Both	12:05-12:55	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Sheryl Hayes Hursh	Provides an overview of theories and models of human-earth relations, and the causes and consequences of climate and environmental change. Develops a critical, global approach to examining the role of education, in school and out, in addressing crucial climate and environmental challenges. Includes a wide range of educational theories, projects, programs, levels, institutions, strategies, and policies. Asks how concepts of human-earth relations influence climate change and explores approaches that promise for a more sustaining global future.	This course can count as Natural Science.
International Development and Education - Elective	320-5	Climate Change, Sustainability & Education	Both	4:00-5:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Matthew Wolfgram	Provides an overview of theories and models of human-earth relations, and the causes and consequences of climate and environmental change. Develops a critical, global approach to examining the role of education, in school and out, in addressing crucial climate and environmental challenges. Includes a wide range of educational theories, projects, programs, levels, institutions, strategies, and policies. Asks how concepts of human-earth relations influence climate change and explores approaches that promise for a more sustaining global future.	This course can count as Natural Science.
Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	335-2	Globalization and Education	Global	4:00-5:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Elena Aydarova	Explores a range of questions, including: What is globalization? What are the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of globalization? How is globalization linked to colonialism and the historically uneven process of capitalist development? Does globalization expand economic growth, democracy, human rights, or does it exacerbate poverty, inequality, the exploitation of natural resources, and the suppression of human rights?
	342	Education Across the Americas: Empire, Capitalism, and Resistance	Both	1:00-2:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Diana Rodríguez-Gómez	Examines educational inequality across the Americas through the lens of imperialism, different forms of colonialism, and capitalism. By exploring the logics and actions of different education stakeholders, critically examine how educational policy across the hemisphere has a shared history of oppression and contestation.	This course can count as Communication B.
	350-1	Image, Society and Education	Both	2:30-3:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	John Baldacchino	In school, the world is predominantly presented to us through words and numbers, where images are prevalent, but often regarded as simply enabling our teaching and learning. However, in the 21st century the image has gained center-stage in everything we do and know, and it has a primary effect on how we engage with the world. In this class we will discuss the several elements that bring together the image, society and education at an age where our understanding of the world is almost totally reliant on an image-centric approach in all aspects of what we do, make and know. Focusing on education we will discuss whether the same emphasis that is traditionally placed on words and numbers should be consciously and actively extended to images.
	350-2	Teaching & Learning in Diverse Spaces	Both	8:00-9:15	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Erica Ramberg	In this course students will explore and discuss research and perspectives on learner-centered teaching. Students will also learn teaching practices that are effective across diverse learning environments such as afterschool programs, non-profit organizations like museums and the Peace Corps, teaching assistant positions in graduate school, and K-12 school environments. These practices revolve around the careful alignment of learning objectives, instructional methods, and assessment activities. Principles of equity, social justice, and empowerment are central to these practices.
	350-3	Health, Nutrition, and Education Policy	Both	9:30-10:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Mary Davis Michaud	The Health, Nutrition, and Education Policy course offers a comprehensive look at how policy decisions in these vital areas impact public well-being. By examining the interconnectedness of health, nutrition, and education systems, you will gain valuable insights into creating equitable, sustainable policies that foster healthier communities. Through a mix of theory, case studies, and hands-on policy design, this course empowers you to critically assess current policies and propose innovative solutions for pressing global challenges in public health and education. Whether you're interested in public health, education reform, or nutrition advocacy, this course equips you with the knowledge and skills to make a meaningful impact.
	350-4	Health, Nutrition, and Education Policy	Both	8:00-9:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Mary Davis Michaud	The Health, Nutrition, and Education Policy course offers a comprehensive look at how policy decisions in these vital areas impact public well-being. By examining the interconnectedness of health, nutrition, and education systems, you will gain valuable insights into creating equitable, sustainable policies that foster healthier communities. Through a mix of theory, case studies, and hands-on policy design, this course empowers you to critically assess current policies and propose innovative solutions for pressing global challenges in public health and education. Whether you're interested in public health, education reform, or nutrition advocacy, this course equips you with the knowledge and skills to make a meaningful impact.
	350-5	Education and Advocacy for Sustainability	U.S.	9:30-10:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Mark Johnson	This experimental course will be valuable for students interested in careers in teaching and community partnerships, with a focus on outreach and public engagement around sustainability and climate change. We will examine earlier historical innovations in educational communications and the use of arts for advocacy, as well as how these tools have been evolving within the contemporary climate and related justice movements. We will analyze instruments for educational communications such as public radio and television, social and digital media, and extension programs. We will also explore the role of museums, libraries, conservancies and nature preserves. We will explore ideas about climate dystopias and utopias through contemporary poetry, fiction, performing and visual arts, and film.
	355	The Politics of Education Injustice in the US	U.S.	9:30-10:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Rachel Williams	Public education in the United States is an inherently political site that offers an important institution to understand politics, power, and injustice broadly. This course considers the politics of education in relation to broader social, spatial, historical, and political economic contexts.	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	412	History of American Education	N/A	9:55-10:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course has discussion sections.	Bill Reese	Examines the history of education in America from the colonization of North America to the present to consider education in its broadest sense - as a process of individual development and cultural transmission. Explores such topics as the rise of common schools in the urban North; the education of Native Americans, immigrants, slaves, and free blacks; the evolution of teacher training (primarily for women); various philosophies of "progressive" school reform; the politics of desegregation, bilingual education, and special education; the articulation between high school and college work; and the evolving federal role in American education.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	435	Education in Emergencies	Global	2:30-3:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Diana Rodríguez-Gómez	The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that more than 82.4 million individuals have been forcibly displaced from their homes. More than a third of them are refugees, and more than 13 million are under the age of 18. In contrast to the portrayals of children wandering among the iconic UNHCR white tents in refugee camps, new images of refugee boys and girls attending public schools raise questions about the role of humanitarianism and education across the world. What are the causes of forced migration? Who counts as a refugee today? What do camp refugees and urban refugees have in common? How do we guarantee access to school for these populations? What would a high-quality curriculum look like for these students?
Social Justice and Education - Elective	515	Holocaust: History, Memory and Education	Both	4:00-7:00	Mon.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Simone Schweber	Explores the ways in which Holocaust history, memory and education are mutually entangled, politically charged and morally complex.	This course can count as Humanities and Communication B.
	550	Philosophy of Moral Education	U.S.	1:00-2:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	David O'Brien	Critical examination of classical and contemporary conceptions of moral education.
Social Justice and Education - Elective	560-1	Gender and Education	Both	11:00-12:15	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Bailey Smolarek	Examines the relationship between gender and education and explores notions of gender as socially constructed categories and identities. Identifies the ways schools (re)produce and mediate gender identities and explore the experiences of students. Draws on critical and feminist perspectives to analyze the ways gender intersects with understandings of identity performance and expression such as masculinity and femininity, as well as at the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality in schooling processes.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course International Development and Education - Elective	570	Anthropology and Education	U.S.	2:30-3:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Lesley Bartlett	Explores foundational concepts and methods of educational anthropology. Examines anthropological inquiry on educational research with particular reference to cultural perspectives on education and educational systems, learning as cultural transmission, and application of anthropological knowledge to curriculum.	This course counts as Ethnic Studies.
	585	Family and Community Engagement in Education	U.S.	2:30-3:45	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Emily Miller	Examines how and why different families and communities engage in education, with an emphasis on issues of power and equity. Focuses on social science approaches to understanding family and community engagement in K-12 schooling in the U.S.
Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course	595	Language Politics and Education	Both	4:00-5:15	Mon. & Wednes.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Matthew Wolfgram	Provides an overview of language politics, policies, and practices in global perspective; draws on the work of anthropologists, sociolinguists, and language policy scholars to examine how language choices in and regarding schooling interact with ethnic and linguistic diversity. Considers the following questions: How do language policies, practices, and pedagogies redress or exacerbate inequalities? How do people at the local level, including educators, negotiate language and literacy policies and politics?
	601	Research and Evaluation for Equity	Both	12:00-3:00	Fri.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Nancy Kendall	How can research and evaluation serve as mechanisms for advancing equity and justice? Gain a foundational understanding of educational research and program evaluation. Learn about the common types of program evaluation and examine how equity-oriented frameworks can inform research and evaluation projects. In this course, you'll consider how politics shape who evaluates, for what reasons, and with what consequences. Gain experience in evaluation research methods, including data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
	605	Using Secondary Data: Applied Quantitative Analysis	Both	2:25-5:25	Tues.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Ran Liu	ED POL 209 is a pre-requisite for this course. Learn the methods of managing secondary data or data not collected for specific research purposes and analyzing it to address educational policies. Focus on quantitative techniques. Use secondary data and statistical software to complete assignments.	This course counts as an elective for the EPS Honors Program.
	618	Advanced Qualitative Research Methods in Education	Both	2:30-3:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Kelsey Dalrymple	ED POL 308 is a pre-requisite for this course. Learn advanced qualitative methods for educational research taught through an apprenticeship in the research process, from developing the idea and questions to collecting and analyzing data to disseminating results. Presents specialized qualitative approaches.	This course counts as an elective for the EPS Honors Program.
	648	Sociology of Education	U.S.	9:30-10:45	Tues. & Thurs.	This course doesn't have discussion sections.	Doug Ready	Uses a sociological lens to examine American schools and schooling, with a particular focus on social inequality in the U.S. and how class, race, and gender intersect in the experiences of students. In this class’s focus on inequality in public education, this class will examine how schools relate to broader structures, institutions, and practices.
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107	History of the University in the West	Both	Elementary	Social Sciences	Examines the development of higher education in Europe and the United States from the Middle Ages to the present. Asks how philosophy, pedagogy, people, politics, and places have shaped the intellectual and cultural history of the university.
112	Global Education Through Film	Global	Elementary	Humanities	Introduces global educational issues, policies, and practices through films. Considers education in context, thinking critically about the role of education in the world and how education compares across issues, places, policies, and practices.	Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	This course counts as Humanities.
123	Education, Technology, and Society	U.S.	Elementary	Social Sciences	Technology today reflects and reproduces society’s dynamics of power and inequality more than ever before. A vast number of people now consume news and entertainment via content platforms that use algorithms which influence their media consumption. How does education fit into the mold? Technology’s relationship with schooling has been revolutionized because of the pandemic, and now students must learn in an age where they have large quantities of information and misinformation at their fingertips. In this course, you will learn about the relationship between technology, schooling and society, and the dilemmas, controversies, and consequences that come with it.
134	Media Literacy and Misinformation in Education	Both	Elementary	Social Sciences	Examines claims in education stories, the various forms of bias that surround them, and how our changing media landscape impacts what stories are told, who tells them and how they impact education policy and practice.
140	Introduction to Education	Both	Elementary	Social Sciences	Considers core educational dilemmas in historical and global perspective. What’s the purpose of schools? Is schooling a public good or a private good? Do schools ameliorate or entrench inequality? Who should determine what is taught in schools and how? How do we know if schools are “working”?
143	History of Race and Inequality in Urban America	U.S.	Elementary	Social Sciences	Examine the historical relationships between metropolitan change, economic transformation, and the construction of race and how those processes have shaped mass incarceration, educational, housing, and income inequality, and the experiences of racial/ethnic minorities who have been marginalized or discriminated against.	Social Justice and Education - Elective	This course can count as Humanities, Ethnic Studies, and Communication B.
145	Introduction to Education Policy	U.S.	Elementary	Social Sciences	Introduction to K-12 education policy, policy processes, and school governance in the United States. This course examines the multiple and sometimes conflicting goals that animate education debates; the discourses and representations of schools, students, and education policies that shape policy and politics; research on education and education policy; and the various lenses and conceptual tools that can help us understand education policy. Includes original policy texts, empirical and conceptual research, current events, and film.	Social Justice and Education - Elective
147	Ethics and Education	Both	Elementary	Humanities	What justifies educating people, in the first place? What does equity in education require? Who has the proper authority to make decisions about education? Learn about analytic tools that educational ethicists use to investigate foundational and applied questions. Understand and evaluate major views on a range of such foundational and applied issues in educational ethics.		This course can count as Humanities and Communication B.
150	Education and Public Policy	Varies	Elementary	Social Sciences	Topics course which examines a variety of topics related to educational policies, practices, and issues in social, cultural, historical, and political economic contexts in the U.S. and around the world.
160	Gender, Sexuality, and Education	Both	Elementary	Social Sciences	This course examines the relationships between gender, sexuality, and education. Through a critical feminist lens, this course will critically examine the ways in which education and schooling are inextricably linked to broader political, social and economic contexts and structuring relations of power, including race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, religion, nation, and geography.	Social Justice and Education - Elective
163	History of Discrimination & Resistance at UW-Madison	U.S.			This course explores how discrimination and resistance manifested in the history of American higher education and society. Then using the University of Wisconsin – Madison and the city of Madison as a case study, it demonstrates how students, staff, and faculty experienced discrimination and fought against it.
197	Listening to the Land	Both	Elementary	Humanities or Social Sciences	What if our best teacher is all around us, even under our feet? For Indigenous peoples, whose worldviews, languages, and lifeways emerge from, and sustain, reciprocal relations to place, land is always teaching. Reflect on "land as first teacher" by considering Indigenous approaches to learning, Indigenous languages in relation to land, and the current environmental health of land. Seeks to live the principles of Indigenous learning through Indigenous foodways and experiential, place-based learning activities. Together, develop a personal relationship to Teejop (Four Lakes, or the Madison region), and explore generational responsibilities to Teejop. What does the land teach? And how do people learn to listen?	Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective	This course can count as Humanities and Ethnic Studies.
200	Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in American Education	U.S.	Elementary	Social Sciences	Explores the complex relationships among race, ethnicity and inequality in U.S. public education. Examines how inequality is produced, reproduced, and resisted through schools and the "everyday" practices of teachers, students, parents, and community members. Asks how race and ethnicity intersect with other identities (e.g. gender, social class, sexual orientation, etc.). Focuses on K-12 educational and multicultural contexts.	Social Justice and Education - Elective	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.
202	Careers in Education	U.S.	Elementary	Social Sciences	Explores the meaning, value, and potential of an education studies major for a variety of education-related careers in the contemporary workplace. Reviews the relationships among education, work, skills and society and analyses of contextual forces shaping education and the labor market (the Covid-19 pandemic, inequality and racism, and climate change).		This course can count as Communication B.
203	Internship in Education, Art, or Health	Both	Elementary	Social Sciences	If you're in the School of Education, you can earn up to 3 academic credits for your internship or experience that connects with your field of study. Reflect and critically analyze your workplace experience in the field of education, arts, and/or health and enhance career opportunities through the exposure to the nexus of career development theory and practice.
205	Language and Social Inequality	Both	Elementary	Social Sciences	Examine cultural and language politics, policies, and practices in education. Read in the fields of anthropology, sociolinguistics, and language policy to consider how language policies, politics, and practices either reinforce or reduce educational and social inequality in the U.S. Participate in a community-based learning site in order to put concepts from the course into practice and learn about possible careers in education.	Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course
209	Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Education	Both	Elementary	Social Sciences	Sound education policy benefits from the use of reliable evidence, including good data and thorough analyses of both challenges and solutions. This course develops students’ understandings of existing data sets and their limitations, as well as how to perform different statistical analyses on those data sets in order to address specific policy questions.		This course can count as Quantitative B.
210	Youth, Education and Society	U.S.	Elementary	Social Sciences	Interrogates the concept of "youth" as a socially constructed category and examines how "youth" are positioned within educational, political, economic, and social contexts, with a particular focus on racially minoritized youth and those experiencing compounding layers of oppression. Explores themes such as: schooling; race; gender and sexuality; politics and activism; community-based learning; criminal justice; media; and popular culture. Draws on a variety of historical and contemporary "texts" and current events to study the lived experiences of young people situated within diverse racial, cultural, gendered, sexualized, and classed contexts. Students reflect on their own experiences as "youth," their relationship to education and other social institutions, and how it informs their understanding of society, educational theory and practice.	Social Justice and Education - Elective	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.
212	Education for Social Justice	Both	Elementary	Social Sciences	What is education for social justice? In what circumstances has schooling been used for social change, and how? This course explores theories and practices of education for social justice, a pedagogical-political approach based on participatory methodologies that is committed to positive social change. This includes popular education, peace and human rights education, critical pedagogy, and related approaches. We will consider theoretical debates, focusing on the ideas of transformative educators such as Paulo Freire and bell hooks, even as we examine radical educator collectives and transformative education efforts in districts, schools, classrooms, community associations, and NGOs from around the world.	Social Justice and Education - Main Course
215	Disability and Education Policy	U.S.	Elementary	Social Sciences	Examines how policies shape the educational experiences of students with disabilities in education and the broader educational landscape.
220	Human Rights and Education	Both	Elementary	Humanities	Explores questions related to human rights and education, from the individual to the global level and from the abstract to the practical: What does it mean to be human? How do we learn to be human? What are human rights, and in what sense are they universal? What is the right to education, and what does it entail? What is human rights education? Focuses on educational case studies, including child rights, the war on drugs, and climate change.	Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	This course can count as Humanities.
222	Indigenous Education Policy & Practice	Both	Elementary	Social Sciences	Examines concepts of sovereignty and educational policy formation for First Nations Peoples in the U.S. and key educational policies, practices, and contexts that have shaped American Indian education. Explores the 11 federally recognized tribes of Wisconsin, their sovereignty, and educational issues facing them and other tribal nations.
240	Comparative Education	N/A	Elementary	Social Sciences	Examines the socio-cultural, political and economic forces that shape education around the world, including in the US. Explores a series of questions, including the purposes of schooling in different locations; the role of schooling in producing inequality or supporting social change, particularly in relation to class, race, gender, migration, language, and abilities; global educational reform; global educational assessments; student movements; and remote learning.	Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course
245	Education in East Asia	Global	Elementary	Social Sciences	Learn about the values, histories, systems, policies, problems, and reforms of education in East Asian societies. You'll examine extended issues in comparative education, including education and its relation to economic development, social inequality and stratification, gender and family, ethnicity and migration, identity formation, and student movements.	Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective
250	Incarceration and Education	U.S.	Elementary	Social Sciences	Investigates how the systems of incarceration and education operate alongside, within, around and through one another. Provides a historical examination of how education and incarceration have interacted. Examines how prisons operate as 'teaching institutions,' what it teaches all of us impacted by it, and what interventions have been designed to facilitate particular kinds of learning. Presents firsthand accounts of those who work and live in the carceral system currently.	Social Justice and Education - Elective
260	Intro to International Education Development	Global	Elementary	Social Sciences	This course reviews theories regarding the relationship between education and development, discusses institutions in international educational development, and considers key issues and approaches to international development.	International Development and Education - Main Course Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective
300	School and Society	N/A	Intermediate	Social Sciences	Asks how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools shape society. Examines political, social and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Considers various contemporary debates about public schooling. Critically examines how educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.	Social Justice and Education - Elective
305	Democracy and Education	U.S.	Intermediate	Social Sciences	Examines the values embedded in notions of “democracy” and their relationship with education, the role of education in a democracy, how the context of America’s capitalist democracy shapes debates about the role of education in democratic life, and the possibilities for deepening the relationship between democracy and education.		This course can count as Communication B.
308	Intro to Qualitative Research Methods for Education	Both	Intermediate	Social Sciences	In this course you will learn how to develop a research question, conduct interviews and observations, and other qualitative research approaches by doing a hands-on research project.
309	Applied Quantitative Education Research	Both	Intermediate	Social Sciences	ED POL 209 is a pre-requisite for this course. This course introduces how quantitative research methods are applied in empirical education research. It is organized as a series of lectures and hands-on workshops focusing on data exploration, manipulation, visualization, and simple analyses with secondary datasets and R or other programming language. Basic knowledge in statistics and regression models is necessary.
310	Latine Students in the U.S. Higher Education System	U.S.	Intermediate	Social Sciences	You'll develop a deeper understanding of U.S. higher education by examining connections between historical and present-day circumstances for a group of students often called the key to the sector's future. Latine students are the fastest growing population in postsecondary education today. Why did this growth happen? How has it impacted colleges and universities? How are Latine college students dealing with varying levels of institutional support? And what strengths do they bring to their education and future careers?
320	Climate Change, Sustainability & Education	Both	Intermediate	Natural Sciences	Provides an overview of theories and models of human-earth relations, and the causes and consequences of climate and environmental change. Develops a critical, global approach to examining the role of education, in school and out, in addressing crucial climate and environmental challenges. Includes a wide range of educational theories, projects, programs, levels, institutions, strategies, and policies. Asks how concepts of human-earth relations influence climate change and explores approaches that promise for a more sustaining global future.	International Development and Education - Elective	This course can count as Natural Science.
335	Globalization and Education	Global	Intermediate	Social Sciences	Explores a range of questions, including: What is globalization? What are the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of globalization? How is globalization linked to colonialism and the historically uneven process of capitalist development? Does globalization expand economic growth, democracy, human rights, or does it exacerbate poverty, inequality, the exploitation of natural resources, and the suppression of human rights?	Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective
337	Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality	Both	Elementary	Social Sciences	How are wealth, poverty, and inequality defined and understood? How are they informed by histories of colonization, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and dispossession? How do power relations of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, citizenship, nation, religion, language, and geography influence them? What are the historical and current theoretical and practical debates on poverty and ending poverty in the U.S. and globally? How do wealth, poverty, and inequality influence education, and how does education influence wealth, poverty, and inequality? What is the history of educational interventions purportedly charged with ameliorating poverty? What is our own relationship to poverty, wealth, and inequality? Ed Pol 237 will address these questions from a theoretical, historical, and practical perspective by providing an introduction to historical and contemporary debates on wealth, poverty and inequality. In doing so, the course will interrogate these debates in relation to the polities, practices, and institutions of education, and examine their articulations with relations of power like white supremacy, anti-blackness, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and classism.	Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective
342	Education Across the Americas: Empire, Capitalism, and Resistance	Both	Intermediate	Social Sciences	Examines educational inequality across the Americas through the lens of imperialism, different forms of colonialism, and capitalism. By exploring the logics and actions of different education stakeholders, critically examine how educational policy across the hemisphere has a shared history of oppression and contestation.		This course can count as Communication B.
345	Economics of Education	U.S.	Intermediate	Social Sciences	Engages with contemporary issues in the economics of education across the K-12 and postsecondary policy arenas in the US and beyond. With foundations in human capital and the education production function, covers a wide variety of topics, including teacher labor markets and teacher quality, school choice, K-12 and higher education finance, and the individual and collective returns to education.
350	Topics in Education	Varies	Intermediate	Social Sciences	Topics course which examines contemporary topics and debates in education studies; develops research, analytical, and other skills to work in education careers.
355	The Politics of Education Injustice in the US	U.S.	Intermediate	Social Sciences	Public education in the United States is an inherently political site that offers an important institution to understand politics, power, and injustice broadly. This course considers the politics of education in relation to broader social, spatial, historical, and political economic contexts.		This course can count as Ethnic Studies.
412	History of American Education	N/A	Intermediate	Social Sciences	Examines the history of education in America from the colonization of North America to the present to consider education in its broadest sense - as a process of individual development and cultural transmission. Explores such topics as the rise of common schools in the urban North; the education of Native Americans, immigrants, slaves, and free blacks; the evolution of teacher training (primarily for women); various philosophies of "progressive" school reform; the politics of desegregation, bilingual education, and special education; the articulation between high school and college work; and the evolving federal role in American education.	Social Justice and Education - Elective
423	Education for Global Change	Both	Intermediate	Social Sciences	Explores how people conceptualize and utilize education to (attempt to) create individual, familial, community, institutional, national, and global change	International Development and Education - Elective
435	Education in Emergencies	Global	Intermediate	Social Sciences	The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that more than 82.4 million individuals have been forcibly displaced from their homes. More than a third of them are refugees, and more than 13 million are under the age of 18. In contrast to the portrayals of children wandering among the iconic UNHCR white tents in refugee camps, new images of refugee boys and girls attending public schools raise questions about the role of humanitarianism and education across the world. What are the causes of forced migration? Who counts as a refugee today? What do camp refugees and urban refugees have in common? How do we guarantee access to school for these populations? What would a high-quality curriculum look like for these students?	Social Justice and Education - Elective
450	Rethinking After-School Education	U.S.	Intermediate	Social Sciences	Engage with and discuss historical, ideological, and contemporary issues within community-based after school programs at large and within the Madison context. Examine the social and political context of after school programs to better understand the ways in which they have the potential to meet important needs.
460	Immigration, Education and Equity	Both	Intermediate	Social Sciences	Examines policy issues surrounding the education of children from immigrant families in K-16 educational settings in the U.S. Through readings, discussions, and assignments, participants examine the economic, social, political, and ideological contexts of immigration and education, as well as school factors and home-school relations. We also consider the impact of various policy and pedagogical approaches. Course readings draw from relevant literature in educational anthropology, sociology of education, educational policy, sociolinguistics, and language pedagogy.	Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective	This course can count as Ethnic Studies.
478	Comparative History of Childhood and Adolescence	Both	Intermediate	Social Sciences	Examines the growth of modern childhood and adolescent sub-cultures, class differences, literary and pictorial representations, legal and demographic developments, and the growth of educational theories and institutions.
535	Introduction to Social Theory & Education	Both			Apart from surveying major themes associated with Critical Theory as it emerged from the 18th century to the present, in this class we will travel through notions of criticality over the horizon of education. The aim is to take an approach to ideas of equity, social justice, and conviviality from a wider intersectional perspective of difference and identity. Special attention will be given to current issues and how criticality in education plays its role in an age of populism and anti-politics. This class aims at an interest in forms of thinking and doing that help us problematize what appears to be immediate and fatalistically intractable—as often we are led to believe when we are told that individualism and happiness are just a matter of “winning” while equality and social justice belong to the language of “losers”. While a humane, just, and equitable society is often made to sound more aspirational than real, it is the sense of critical hope that urges us to engage with the present so we can identify better possibilities for the future of society and education.
500	Topics on Social Issues and Education	Varies	Advanced	Social Sciences	Topics course which explores contemporary social issues or problems and their significance for educational purposes and practices. Designed for various special topics on social issues and education.
505	Issues in Urban Education	U.S.	Advanced	Social Sciences	Explores urban education in the United States and its relationship to broader political, social, and economic contexts. Focuses on contemporary urban educational issues and students' experiences in school and community settings, the experiences of students and families of color and the relationship between race, class, gender, and inequality in urban education.	Social Justice and Education - Elective
515	Holocaust: History, Memory and Education	Both	Advanced	Social Sciences	Explores the ways in which Holocaust history, memory and education are mutually entangled, politically charged and morally complex.	Social Justice and Education - Elective	This course can count as Humanities and Communication B.
516	Religion and Public Education	Both	Advanced	Social Sciences	This course examines theories and practices related to the role of religion in public schooling and its accompanying tensions: political and philosophical, practical and personal.
518	Introduction to Higher Education Policy	U.S.	Advanced	Social Sciences	This course explores the sociocultural tensions among key policy goals such as quality, equity, and efficiency, and the results (including unintended consequences) of those tensions. Examines the theory and research brought to bear on policy debates, and how they are used-or not used-to shape policy agendas.
525	Is College Possible? College Access and Admissions in the US	U.S.	Advanced	Social Sciences	Survey of the college access landscape in the US with particular attention to historical and contemporary social, economic, and political contexts from the individual to federal level. Specifically focus on students' transitions from K12 to higher education, including policy aspects of college-going affecting college preparation, search, application, choice, and enrollment.
540	Egalitarianism and Educational Justice	Both	Advanced	Humanities	Examines significant disagreements about educational justice-about the very concept of educational justice; about the most plausible substantive account of educational justice and the way that an ideal of equality bears on it; and about what kinds of policies the most plausible account of educational justice would require in circumstances like our own. Introduces tools that contemporary moral and political philosophers use to investigate those questions. Understand and evaluate efforts to resolve those questions.	Social Justice and Education - Elective	This course counts as Humanities.
542	Law and Public Education	N/A	Advanced	Humanities or Social Sciences	This course teaches you about the legal issues related to the policy decisions and delivery of public education (elementary and secondary) in the United States. Learn how law impacts both curriculum development and curricular delivery, explore current legal controversies, constitutional issues, and learn about legal reasoning and analysis.		This course can count as Humanities.
545	Philosophical Conceptions of Teaching and Learning	U.S.	Advanced	Humanities or Social Sciences	Examination and analysis of conceptions of and approaches to teaching and learning. It provides a forum to examine teaching and learning, with special attention to pedagogy and practice. The course is especially geared for those interested in pursuing teaching as a career or dedicated to thinking critically about teaching and learning.		This course can count as Humanities.
550	Philosophy of Moral Education	U.S.	Advanced	Social Sciences	Critical examination of classical and contemporary conceptions of moral education.
560	Gender and Education	Both	Advanced	Social Sciences	Examines the relationship between gender and education and explores notions of gender as socially constructed categories and identities. Identifies the ways schools (re)produce and mediate gender identities and explore the experiences of students. Draws on critical and feminist perspectives to analyze the ways gender intersects with understandings of identity performance and expression such as masculinity and femininity, as well as at the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality in schooling processes.	Social Justice and Education - Elective
567	History of African American Education	U.S.	Advanced	Social Sciences	The History of African American Education examines institutional schooling as a tool of both political freedom and cultural exclusion in the United States. Tracing social factors that influenced Black education from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century, this course examines education as an instrument for developing racist ideology and structures of social domination, but also as politics of cultural and economic liberation. The course examines this tension within the historical contexts of slavery, Reconstruction, industrialization and urbanization, and Black Power politics of the 1960s.	Social Justice and Education - Elective
570	Anthropology and Education	U.S.	Advanced	Social Sciences	Explores foundational concepts and methods of educational anthropology. Examines anthropological inquiry on educational research with particular reference to cultural perspectives on education and educational systems, learning as cultural transmission, and application of anthropological knowledge to curriculum.	Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course International Development and Education - Elective	This course counts as Ethnic Studies.
575	Education Policy and Practice	U.S.	Advanced	Social Sciences	Examines research on teachers and teaching as an occupation, the everyday realities of classrooms, and a variety of frameworks for understanding the relationship between policy and educators' daily work. Considers teachers and administrators as implementers of local, state, and federal policies, while simultaneously designing and creating policies and practices themselves.	Social Justice and Education - Elective
580	Participatory and Community-Based Research and Evaluation	Both	Advanced	Social Sciences	This course teaches the goals, purposes and methods associated with community-engaged, participatory research and evaluation, including the following: 1) the political and philosophical underpinnings of the approach, and specifically of participatory action research (PAR); 2) qualitative research methods; 3) examples of community-engaged, participatory studies.
585	Family and Community Engagement in Education	U.S.	Advanced	Social Sciences	Examines how and why different families and communities engage in education, with an emphasis on issues of power and equity. Focuses on social science approaches to understanding family and community engagement in K-12 schooling in the U.S.
595	Language Politics and Education	Both	Advanced	Social Sciences	Provides an overview of language politics, policies, and practices in global perspective; draws on the work of anthropologists, sociolinguists, and language policy scholars to examine how language choices in and regarding schooling interact with ethnic and linguistic diversity. Considers the following questions: How do language policies, practices, and pedagogies redress or exacerbate inequalities? How do people at the local level, including educators, negotiate language and literacy policies and politics?	Social Justice and Education - Elective Global Cultures Languages and Education - Main Course
600	Introduction to Survey Methods in Educational Research	Varies	Advanced	Social Sciences	Topics course which examines various debates in the field of education policy specific to special topic identified by instructor/faculty. Policy area and faculty will vary each semester.
601	Research and Evaluation for Equity	Both			How can research and evaluation serve as mechanisms for advancing equity and justice? Gain a foundational understanding of educational research and program evaluation. Learn about the common types of program evaluation and examine how equity-oriented frameworks can inform research and evaluation projects. In this course, you'll consider how politics shape who evaluates, for what reasons, and with what consequences. Gain experience in evaluation research methods, including data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
605	Using Secondary Data: Applied Quantitative Analysis	Both	Advanced	Social Sciences	ED POL 209 is a pre-requisite for this course. Learn the methods of managing secondary data or data not collected for specific research purposes and analyzing it to address educational policies. Focus on quantitative techniques. Use secondary data and statistical software to complete assignments.		This course counts as an elective for the EPS Honors Program.
612	History of Student Activism from the Popular Front to Black Lives Matter	U.S.	Advanced	Humanities	Explore the history of student activism in the United States, with an emphasis on the experiences racial/ethnic minority youths who have been marginalized or discriminated against. What motivated students to become politically active, and what forms did their activism take? How did student activism vary across time and space and from one group of activists to another? Why did some students become activists while others did not? What role did education and educational institutions play in their activism?	Social Justice and Education - Elective	This course counts as Ethnic Studies and Humanities.
618	Advanced Qualitative Research Methods in Education	Both	Advanced	Social Sciences	ED POL 308 is a pre-requisite for this course. Learn advanced qualitative methods for educational research taught through an apprenticeship in the research process, from developing the idea and questions to collecting and analyzing data to disseminating results. Presents specialized qualitative approaches.		This course counts as an elective for the EPS Honors Program.
622	History of Radical and Experimental Education in the US and UK	Both	Advanced	Humanities or Social Sciences	In this course, you'll examine the comparative history of radical and experimental education in the United States and United Kingdom since 1800. It focuses on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of diverse educational experiments, including experiments related to socialism, abolitionism, anarchism, and religious fundamentalism.		This course counts as Ethnic Studies and Humanities.
648	Sociology of Education	U.S.	Advanced	Social Sciences	Uses a sociological lens to examine American schools and schooling, with a particular focus on social inequality in the U.S. and how class, race, and gender intersect in the experiences of students. In this class’s focus on inequality in public education, this class will examine how schools relate to broader structures, institutions, and practices.
665	History of the Federal Role in Education	U.S.	Advanced	Social Sciences	Examines the history of federal aid to education from 1776 to the present, with heavy emphasis on the post-World War II period. Explores the federal role in public education in the Early Republic and during Reconstruction; Traces the evolution of federal policies concerning racial desegregation, compensatory education for low-income students, bilingual education, and special education for the disabled.
675	Introduction to Comparative and International Education	Global	Advanced	Social Sciences	Introduction to the origins and development of the field of comparative and international education (CIE) and to explore how scholars engage some of the theoretical, ideological, methodological, and topical debates that characterize research in the field of CIE policy.	Global Cultures Languages and Education - Elective International Development and Education - Elective
680	Educational Policy Studies Honors Capstone	N/A	Advanced	Social Sciences	This course requires declaration in Educational Policy Studies BS Honors in the Major. Develop a capstone project reflecting expertise in existing research on an issue or question of interest. Engage in interdisciplinary conversations, consider pressing issues in education, explore potential professional and academic trajectories, and prepare for future careers and graduate education.		EPS Capstone Honors course and is only offered in the Fall.
688	Introduction to Survey Methods for Education Research	Both	Advanced	Social Sciences	Learn and engage with conceptual and practical tools for planning, designing, and conducting survey research on education-related issues. This course provides an overview of principles in survey methods and relevant issues, including data collection modes, sampling methods, questionnaires and measurement design, possible sources of bias and errors, non-response, and other extended topics.		This course counts as an elective for the EPS Honors Program.
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Career Development/Advising Events

March
- March 13
  SJMC Meet-and-Greet - Future Badger Day3:00 PM, Journalism Reading Room (2130), Vilas Hall
- March 17
  Peace Corps Recruiting OfficeOpen Office Hours10:00 AM, 200 B Bascom Hall
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- March 17
  Intern and Study in Washington, DCInfo Session with Coffee & Donuts!10:00 AM, Study Abroad Resource Center (3rd Floor Red Gym)
- March 17
  Planning for Your Career in the Age of AI AI & Workforce series4:00 PM, H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building
- March 19
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March
- March 13
  Silent DiscoHosted by the RCC Sexual Violence Resource Center at the Well8:00 PM, The Well, Union South
- March 16
  Drop-In Virtual Support for Survivors1:00 PM, Online
- March 16
  Let's TalkFor survivors of sexual and/or intimate partner violence5:00 PM, Online
- March 17
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- March 17
  Thrive WorkshopManaging Stress5:00 PM, 233, "The Well", Union South

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