*Courses marked with an asterisk denote courses required for the Elementary & Special Education Certification track at CU (RI only). Students interested in pursuing this certification are advised to register for the *courses.

However, all courses are open to all students regardless of their certification pathway. We encourage students to choose courses that:

• Support their pathway certification goals (whether at CU or elsewhere)

• Support their own professional development

• Enrich their CU project 

• Align with their passions

Please review these courses with your lab faculty. If you have additional questions, be on the lookout for TA2BA Registration Office Hours in April (info will be listed in both the student & faculty newsletter). Lab Faculty can also reach out directly to Aubrey Schabowsky.

SUMMER 2024

• *Special Topics in Power & Difference: Foundations & Core Values of Progressive Education

  • • • • This course allows space for candidates to understand equitable values and beliefs as student-centered educators. They study the vital concepts of dialogical education and the idea of love as a critical stance by carefully reading and analyzing Paulo Friere’s work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. They then apply these tenets to working with families, and to interpreting the world through the lenses of race, gender, and social class. 

• Special Topics in Individual & Group Dynamics: Social Emotional Learning

  • • • • This course explores key components and stages of social emotional learning (SEL), factors that may impact SEL development, and the impact of SEL on behaviors and classroom management. 

• Special Topics in Civic Engagement: Teaching Social Studies & Growing Social Consciousness

  • • • • Candidates finish this class with a clear understanding of how social consciousness develops in children; how to plan units to promote the growth of social consciousness that includes interventions and differentiation that allows access and success for all students; and how to construct a learning environment that supports social consciousness development in a racially and linguistically diverse classroom. 

FALL 2024