EDPOL 417 explores the relationships between health, nutrition, and education using interdisciplinary frameworks to analyze policy impacts on children's wellbeing.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Fall 2026
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EDPOL 450 examines the social and political context of after school programs to understand their potential to meet important needs.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2025 · limited sampleEDPOL 460 examines U.S. K-16 policy issues for immigrant children, exploring social, political, and pedagogical contexts.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The workload is light, consisting of 2-4 weekly readings and a response. Reviewers describe the assignments as easily doable with no busy work.
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Spring 2022–Fall 2025EDPOL 535 introduces social theory from the Enlightenment to the present, exploring how it shapes educational policy and society.
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EDPOL 580 teaches community-engaged, participatory research and evaluation methods, including PAR underpinnings and qualitative techniques.
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Fall 2025–Fall 2025 · limited sampleEDPOL 602 introduces statistical analysis for research and evaluation, covering validity, sampling, inference, and designs like RCT and DiD using real data.
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EDPOL 680 is an honors capstone course where students develop a research project on an educational policy issue and prepare for future careers.
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EDPOL 688 introduces survey research methods for education, covering design, sampling, and bias mitigation.
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EDPOL 699
Independent Reading
1–3 creditsOffering recorded · Fall 2026
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleEDPOL 701 introduces diverse scholarly perspectives in educational policy studies.
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EDPOL 760 provides a critical understanding of the international educational development arena, its theories, actors, and historical themes.
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Fall 2024–Fall 2024 · limited sampleEDPOL 780 covers varying special topics in educational policy studies each semester.
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Historical reviews of Sara Goldrick-Rab: The course is rated as moderately difficult, with a focus on timely assignment feedback and accessible digital course materials.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sampleEDPOL 911
Seminar in Urban Education
3 creditsA seminar examining historical and contemporary urban educational issues and policies within the context of broader metropolitan challenges.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleEDPOL 990
Research or Thesis
1–12 creditsOffering recorded · Fall 2026
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EDPOL 999
Independent Reading
1–3 creditsOffering recorded · Fall 2026
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleExamines legal issues, policy decisions, and constitutional issues in US public education.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Explores the conceptualization and policing of gender and sexuality in K-12 and out-of-school contexts.
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Fall 2024–Fall 2025 · limited sampleTraces the intellectual, political, and social history of the university as an idea, institution, and community from the Middle Ages to the present.
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Historical reviews of Matthew Farrelly: Reviewers characterize the workload as light, typically involving one weekly homework assignment, a final paper, and a slideshow, though one review notes the course is reading-heavy with in-class discussions.
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Spring 2022–Fall 2025Examines the historical relationships between metropolitan change, economic transformation, and the construction of race to understand their impact on inequality and marginalized communities.
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Readings are described as easy and supplemental, with a final project offering significant creative freedom.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026EDPOL/HISTORY 412 examines the history of education in America from colonization to the present, covering topics like common schools, teacher training, and desegregation.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course is reading and writing intensive, requiring multiple papers and a final paper instead of exams. While most reviewers describe the readings as intense, one student reported skipping them entirely and completing work during class.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Examines the comparative history of radical and experimental education in the US and UK since 1800, focusing on social, cultural, and intellectual contexts of diverse educational experiments.
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Examines the history of federal aid to education from 1776 to the present, focusing on policy evolution and the federal role in public schooling.
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Explores human rights and education questions, investigating tensions in the framework to reduce social inequality through case studies.
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Historical reviews of Mary Michaud: The workload requires substantial reading preparation for class discussions. Attendance is mandatory, though students are typically allowed a few absences.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026GLOBALIZATION AND EDUCATION examines the links between education and global political, economic, and social contexts through interdisciplinary analysis.
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Historical reviews of Elise Ahn, Teresa Speciale, Thatcher Spero: Workload ranges from skimming readings to dense, long texts and a semester-long case study.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Examines disagreements about educational justice, substantive accounts of equality, and required policies using moral and political philosophy tools.
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Fall 2025–Fall 2025 · limited sampleEDPOL/SOC 955 is a graduate seminar focused on the intensive practice and analysis of specific qualitative research methods like ethnography or interviewing.
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Historical reviews of Alice Goffman: The course is rated as difficult, requiring students to push themselves beyond their current limits.
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Fall 2024–Fall 2024 · limited sampleAcross course levels
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