Certificate Courses
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Foundation
o C&I/EPS 240*: Introduction to Education, (3 credits)
o One course from the Social Context of Education Strand (3 credits)
 ELPA 502*: Legal Rights & Responsibilities for Teachers
 Soon to be 640)
 EPS 300: School and Society
 EPS 335: Globalization and Education
 EPS 412: History of American Education
 C&I/EPS 3xx: Education in and out of School**
o One course from the Individual Processes in Teaching and Learning Strand (3
credits)
 Ed Psych 320: Human Development: Infancy to Early Childhood
 Ed Psych 321: Human Development: Adolescence
 Ed Psych 301: Human Abilities and Learning
 Ed Psych 3xx: Mind, Brain, and Education**
 RPSE 300: Individuals with Disabilities
Focus
o Six additional credits from a list of options, including other Foundation classes.
Students may also substitute up to 3 credits of independent study with any SoE faculty
member within a sponsoring department
 Examples of current and expected offerings are listed below
 Specific offerings will vary from year to year
*These are new course numbers to be assigned to existing courses
**New faculty hired with funds from the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates will develop these
Foundation courses.
Focus Classes
CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION
375*: Introduction to Education (*to be renumbered 240 jointly listed in C & I and EPS)
 Can accommodate 150 certificate students per semester (These numbers refer to additional
seats provided to accommodate certificate students. However, space will not be reserved
specifically for certificate students.)
 Course Description: The course is focused on social justice-oriented responses to confronting
race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and linguistic discrimination through active participation
and problem solving in educational and community settings. Students also will learn from
course readings, large and small-group discussions, and service learning. Students will learn
from their service-learning (25 hours) experiences in a community setting through individual
reflection and small-group discussion.
 Typically offered: Fall and spring, 1 section each; 1 lecture per week and also 1 discussion
section.
 Prerequisites: None. Open to students at all levels of their undergraduate university education.
305: Integrating the Teaching of Reading with the Other Language Arts
 Can accommodate 10-15 in the fall; 5-7 in the spring
 Course Description: Theory, research, and instructional practices supporting the teaching of
reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in an integrated curriculum from kindergarten
through grade 12.
277: Videogames and Learning
 Can accommodate 10 each semester
 Course Description: Explores current research on videogames and learning. Students critically
reflect on the intellectual and educational merits of videogames and how videogame culture
shapes how individuals think and learn.
 Typically offered fall and spring.
3xx: Education in and out of School
 Can accommodate 150 per year (offered once per year)
 New course to be developed by a faculty member hired with funds from the Madison Initiative
for Undergraduates
 Will receive a 300-level number
3xx: Supporting education and development in afterschool programs
 Can accommodate 30 per year (offered once per year)
 Example of a new course to be developed by a faculty member hired with funds from the
Madison Initiative for Undergraduates
 Will receive a 300-level number
COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY
110: Human Resources Development: Career Strategies (Topics)
 Course Description: Exploration and vocational development through didactic and experiential
learning. Career education concerns the place and value of work in the individual's life span
and style--development and assessment of self, an understanding of the world of work, and
facilitation of decision-making, planning, and preparation.
 Typically offered fall, spring
115: Human Resources Development: Educational Effectiveness
 Course Description: Exploration of personal, institutional, and community resources that
optimize academic success and persistence. Utilizes didactic and experiential methods to
develop higher level learning, skill, and understanding.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
225: Coming to Terms with Cultural Diversity: Invitation to Dialogue
 Course Description: This course is designed as an introduction to social issues raised by
global and national trends toward heightened contact among persons from diverse social and
cultural groups.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
325: Seminar: Students Seeking Educational Equality and Diversity
 Course Description: Students use personal experiences, readings, and discussions as
frameworks for interrogating social, cultural, and political inequities. Students engage in
dialogues and experiential activities about social differences to promote critical consciousness
and intercultural competence across disciplines.
 Typically offered fall, spring
650: Theory and Practice in Interviewing
 Course Description: Theoretical bases for conducting interviews; types of interviewing;
introduction to counseling and interviewing techniques. Limited opportunity to practice.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
EDUCATION LEADERSHIP AND POLICY ANALYSIS
350: Peer Leadership and Mentorship with Transitioning Students
 Course Description: Examines student development in the first college year and strategies
upper class students can use to be effect leaders and mentors of new students.
 Typically offered Fall
502: Introduction to Student Affairs as a Helping Profession in Higher Education
 Professional landscape of higher education for individuals interested in residence life, student
life, and student unions.
 Offered under special topics series – will be submitted for program approval as a regular
course during 2012-13
 Typically offered Fall
502: Legal Rights and Responsibilities for Teachers
 Course Description: Practical problems derived from student interests and needs.
 Typically offered spring & summer
 To be re-numbered as 640
660: Foundations of Education for Work
 Course Description: Analysis of perspectives and issues associated with the development of
work-focused education policies and practice.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
661: Organization and Operation of Education for Work Programs
 Course Description: Procedures, policies and research associated with various systems of
work-related education.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
662: Designing Education for Work Curricula
 Course Description: Theory, practice and research in the development of education for work
curricula. Analysis of practice in secondary, post-secondary, adult, and workplace contexts.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
665: Career Development Throughout the Life Span
 Course Description: For educators and students preparing for teaching, counseling, and
administrative positions. Relationships among education, work and life style as well as factors
influencing individual career development; rationale for career education and application of
Wisconsin and other state models; strategies for development and evaluation of career
education/ career guidance programs and activities.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
EDUCATIONAL POLICY STUDIES
200: Race, Ethnicity and Inequality in American Education
 Can accommodate 5-7 certificate students each year
 Course Description: Theories and research concerning the reasons for racial and ethnic
differences in educational performance; the significance of contemporary and historical
debates over educational inequality; policies and practices to reduce inequality in education.
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Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
300: School and Society
 Can accommodate 20 certificate students each semester.
o If certificate demand warrants, the department could open additional sections.
 Course Description: Contemporary issues and trends in public schooling. Topics include:
cultural differences; achieving equality through schooling; schools as social institutions; the
rights of students and teachers; and the nature and organization of the teaching profession.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
412: History of American Education (x-listed with History)
 Can accommodate 20 certificate students each semester.
o If certificate demand warrants, the department could open additional sections.
 Course Description: Place and function of educational endeavors and institutions in American
society and among particular groups, such as native Americans, Blacks, the poor, and
immigrants.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
335: Globalization & Education (x-listed with International Studies)
 Can accommodate 10-20 certificate students.
o If certificate demand warrants, the department could open additional sections.
 Course Description: Introduces students to the origins, development, and debates in the field
of globalization and education (GE); explores educational experiences in settings around the
world; and examines how GE studies and approaches can inform learning, teaching, and
research practices.
 Typically offered fall, spring
505: Issues in Urban Education
 Can accommodate 5-7 certificate students each year.
 Course Description: Urban education and its relationship to developing political, social, and
economic factors.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
518: Introduction to Debates in Higher Education Policy
 Can accommodate 5-7 certificate students each year.
 Course Description: Critical examination of debates surrounding contemporary higher
education policies; emphasis on those policies affecting college access and success.
 Prerequisites: Jr, Sr, or Grad st
570: Anthropology and Education (x-listed with Anthropology)
 Can accommodate 5-7 certificate students each year.
 Course Description: The current and historical relation of anthropology to education with
particular reference to culture contact and social change, cultural perspectives on education
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and educational systems, learning as cultural transmission, and application of anthropological
knowledge to curriculum.
Typically offered fall, spring
648: Sociology and Education (x-listed with Sociology___)
 Can accommodate 5-7 certificate students each year.
 Course Description: Educational institutions as social systems; role relationships, community
contexts, relevant values and ideals, stratification, mobility, and recruitment to varied
educational organizations, comparative educational systems.
 Typically offered fall, spring
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
301: Human Abilities and Learning
 Can accommodate the expected number of certificate students without increasing capacity.
 Course Description: Principles and techniques of learning, individual differences in abilities.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
320: Human Development in Infancy and Childhood
 Can accommodate the expected number of certificate students without increasing capacity.
 Course Description: Normative processes and individual differences in physical, mental, social
and emotional development and behavior from infancy through late childhood.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
320: Human Development in Adolescence
 Can accommodate the expected number of certificate students without increasing capacity.
 Course Description: Physiological, social, and cognitive changes which characterize the
transition from childhood to adult life.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
3xx: Mind, Brain, and Education
 Can accommodate 150 per year (offered once per year)
 New course to be developed by a faculty member hired with funds from the Madison Initiative
for Undergraduates
 Will receive a 300-level number
331: Human Development from Childhood through Adolescence
 Can accommodate ~10 certificate students per year
 Course Description: Social and psychological aspects of human development from early
childhood through adolescence; implications for education.
 Typically offered spring only
331: Informed Statistical Reasoning in an Uncertain World
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Can accommodate ~15 certificate students.
Course Description: Lectures and readings that introduce concepts and tools or statistical
reasoning and analysis are coordinated with simulation activities designed to develop future
educators' statistical literacy and decision-making skills in real-world problem contexts. Course
assumes little prior statistics knowledge.
This course has not been offered regularly. With the certificate audience the department would
expect to offer it once every other year. This would be a new offering, in response to the
expected increased demand.
506: Contemporary Issues in Educational Psychology (Topics Course)
 Currently can accommodate an additional 5 students per year
 The department will add additional section as demand increases. Likely once per year,
enrollment 30.
540: Introduction to Professional School Psychology
 Can accommodate 5 students.
 Course Description: Introduction to the professional roles and functions of school
psychologists; historical development; legal and ethical issues; overview of assessment,
intervention, and consultation for children and adolescents at risk for, or with, academic,
behavioral, emotional, and social difficulties; applied research in school psychology.
 Typically offered fall only
542: The Biological Basis of Behavior
 Can accommodate 5-10 students with each offering.
 Course Description: Content will focus on: neuroscience foundational concepts relevant to
clinical mental health practice, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, psychopharmacology, disease
states; ontological and phylogenic neurodevelopment. Course will also provide overview of
ethical/cultural implications of these scientific advances. Ethical/Cultural/Economic
Applications.
 This class is offered once per year (though with the certificate we would expect to increase the
frequency of this topics class).
 biology.
570: Foundations of Educational Measurement
 Can accommodate 5 students.
o The department can add a section for undergraduates (once per year, enrollment 30).
 Course Description: Theory of mental measurement, types of scales, reliability, validity,
psychometric evaluation of published tests.
 Typically offered fall
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Course Description: The objective of this class is to give students a working familiarity with the
major theoretical approaches current within developmental psychology.
Typically offered annually
REHABILITATION PSYCHOLOGY & SPECIAL EDUCATION
300: Individuals with Disabilities
 Course Description: An overview of the characteristics and problems of exceptional children
and youth. Definition and classification systems, etiology of handicapping conditions,
educational services, and adult adjustment. Current controversies and future trends.
 Typically offered fall, spring, & summer
500: Rehabilitation-Counseling Psychology: Foundations
 Course Description: History, philosophy, principles, legislation, and development of vocational
rehabilitation; organizational structure and objectives of the principal community agencies.
 Typically offered fall, summer