Dec 04, 2024

2023-2024 Graduate Catalog

2023-2024 Graduate Catalog [NOTE!!!! THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. FOR THE CURRENT CATALOG, GO TO CATALOG.NIU.EDU]

Foundations of Education and Policy Studies (18)

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Certificate of Graduate Study

This certificate is designed to provide educators with a framework in historical, social, and/or philosophical foundations of education with an emphasis on issues of race, gender, and social class. It is available to any graduate-level student with a GPA of at least 3.00.

Requirements

EPFE 555 - Sociology of Classrooms Credits: 3
EPFE 747 - Sociology of Urban Education Credits: 3
EPFE 715 - Foundations of Educational Policy Credits: 3
EPFE 721 - Seminar in American Educational Thought Credits: 3
EPFE 745 - Interpretive Methods in Educational Research Credits: 3

Course work

Course work from one or more of the areas below chosen in consultation with certificate advisor. Students may select an interdisciplinary program of electives from across the foundations’ parent disciplines, or they may develop a focus in a specific foundations field as indicated below. A maximum of 3 semester hours of internship credit may be used toward the certificate. (9)

Foundations of Education and Policy Studies (18)

Certificate of Graduate Study

Requirements

Course work

Philosophy of Education

History of Education

Social Foundations