Education Sciences Certificate

The following requirements are in addition to, or further elaborate upon, those requirements outlined in The Graduate School Policy Guide.

Certificate

Total Units Required: 9-18

Note, in many cases, students would complete some of these courses while meeting the typical requirements for their home program. Thus, although we have listed nine required courses, few students would need take nine additional courses.

Course Requirements

Methods (4 required courses)

Course Title
Take one of the following general courses:
Quantitative Methods I: Probability and Statistics
Quantitative Methods I: Probability and Statistics
Statistics in Experimental Design
Take two of the following more specialized courses on quantitative methods:
Quantitative Methods II: Regression Analysis
Quantitative Methods II: Regression Analysis
Quantitative Methods III: Empirical Tools for Causal Quantitative Analysis
Psychometric Theory
Psychological Measurement
Hierarchical Linear Models
Meta-Analysis
Advanced Topics in Statistics
Take one of the following qualitative methods courses:
Ethnographic Methods and Analysis
Field Methods
Field Methods
Field Methods
Advanced Qualitative Methods
Advanced Qualitative Methods
Field Research and Methods of Data Collection


Cognition and Student Learning (1 required course)

Course Title
Take one of the following courses:
Knowledge Representation for the Learning Sciences (Cognition and Learning)
Foundations of the Learning Science (Cognitive Science Foundations of the Learning Sciences)
Cognitive Development
Analogy and Similarity
Topics in Learning Sciences


Human Development (1 required course)

Course Title
Take one of the following courses:
Child Development and Social Policy
Adolescent Development
Adult Development and Aging
Theories of Human Development


Policy and Social Contexts of Learning (2 required courses)

Course Title
Take two of the following courses:
Sociology of Education
Education Policy: Design, Implementation and Effects
Educational Policy: Design, Implementation and Effects
Economics of Social Policy
Social Policymaking and Policy Implementation
Social Policymaking and Policy Implementation
Topics in Human Development & Soc Policy (Change Among Public, Private and Non-Profit Sectors)
Topics in Human Development & Soc Policy (Economics of Education Policy)
Topics in Human Development & Soc Policy (Intersectionality and Policy)


Diversity, Disparities and Equity (one required course)

Course Title
Take one of the following courses:
Topics in Learning Sciences (Race, Inequality and Learning in Chicago)
Topics in Learning Sciences (Culture, Learning and Poverty)
Topics in Learning and Organizational Change (Identities, Intersections and Organizations)
Topics in Human Development & Soc Policy (Culture and Development)