Course Archive, Graduate

Science Education

SCE 5140
Curriculum in Science Education (3)
Provides opportunities for students to develop both a practical and theoretical basis to analyze science curricula. The course focuses on the utilization of philosophical and psychological foundations to analyze current curriculum materials available for science classes.

SCE 5545
Teaching Science in Diverse Classrooms (3)
This course examines the implications of "science for all," with a particular emphasis on the interactions of students' culture and culture of science. This examination is followed by a description of instructional congruence and its role in helping all students move toward scientific literacy. This course culminates with the identification of practices that allow for cultural congruence and the application of these practices in the design and enactment of an instructionally congruent unit of science teaching.

SCE 5642
Science Teaching & Educational Policy

SCE 5740
Research Methods in Science Education (3)
A comprehensive survey of research methodology used in studying science education is conducted in this course. Students develop skills in interpreting both qualitative and quantitative studies, with particular emphasis placed on qualitative methodologies.

SCE 5921r
Colloquium (1)
(S/U grade only)
Current trends in science teaching. Enrollment limited to master's or doctoral students in science or science education. May be repeated to a maximum of eight (8) semester hours.

SSE 5935
Statistics for Science Teaching

SCE 5935r
Special Problems in the Teaching of Secondary School Science (1–3)

SCE 5943r
Field Laboratory Internship (1 - 8)
(S/U grade only)
May be repeated to a maximum of sixteen (16) semester hours.