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This course introduces the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science. Lectures and readings will survey research from artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience, and will cover topics such as the nature of knowledge, thinking, remembering, vision, imagery, language, and consciousness. Sections will demonstrate some of the major methodologies. Also listed as Cognitive Science C1.
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The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Enrollment limited to 15 freshmen.
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Racial and ethnic minorities in American schools and colleges through case studies of Native Americans, Italian Americans, and Mexican Americans. Policies, practices, ideologies, experiences, and outcomes from the perspective of both the dominant and minority groups.
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Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting.
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Explores the complex relationship among diversity, equality, inequality, and educational systems by focusing on the conceptual categories of race, class, and gender in the organization of educational opportunity. Explores the ways in which these categories intersect in people's lives. Incorporates a semester-long project that enables students to develop research skills as they apply their new understandings to the educational challenges facing local districts and communities.
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This course explores how language is influenced by social factors. The topics include dialects and standard English, slang, and the influence of gender, identity, and bilingualism on language use, highlighting the diverse ways in which people use language to communicate with one another. A secondary objective is to teach strategies that are proven effective for successful and efficient reading, writing, learning, and studying. These strategies will be applied to the content of this class and be useful in students' other classes.
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This course addresses both the socio-cultural context of sport in higher education as well as the individual's experience within this particular context. The course will examine the evolution of the amateur athlete in the 19th century and subsequent commercialization of college sports within the 20th century. Particular areas of focus will be the NCAA, the media portrayal of the American "student-athlete," as well as identities of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation as they relate to sport in higher education.
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American sports and athletes have come to signify a complex of variegated meanings that include desire, but also disdain. Through the work of a variety of scholars, researchers, and journalists, this course explores the nature and motives of societal structures and practices (embodied in both institutions and individuals) to illuminate the intersections and reciprocal influences of society and sports. The central framework of this course draws on the notion that the space of sports is defined by highly structured societal practices and consumptions. By critically analyzing a variety of these practices, this course attempts to ground a partial reading of other societal forces in American culture. In particular, the course examines the nuanced intersections of sport, race, ethnicity, social class and gender, highlighting the ways in which American sports provide a potential vehicle for social mobility and integration while simultaneously reproducing existing cultural stereotypes and structures of inequality.
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Lectures on topics of special interest to teachers, including child and adolescent development, the teaching-learning process, and classroom evaluation. Application of these concepts to the school setting and consultation on actual classroom problems. Written assignments and final examination required.
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The course introduces students to relationships between research on cognitive development and reforms in elementary teaching. The syllabus is organized in modules that link research and classroom practice. For example, in a module on children's mathematics, we analyze research on children's strategies for solving math problems and consider how this research has reformed teaching practices. Students complete a project for each module that links research and observations in elementary classrooms through concurrent enrollment in one unit of 197.
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Theory and research on psychological development from birth through childhood with special attention to relations between developmental theory and educational practice. Directed field observation of developmental phenomena and educational practices.
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This course will provide students with an understanding of theories and practices in early care and education, specifically focused on children from infancy to age 5. It will also provide an opportunity for students to apply knowledge and reflect upon experiences teaching in a high-quality environment for young children. Course topics will span infant, toddler, and preschool early care and education programs and the age groups for whom such programs are designed. Special attention will be given to 1) curriculum approaches and theories in early care and education programs, 2) educational practices related to culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse student populations, and 3) child observation and classroom organization and practices. In addition, the course will cover changing expectations for children and their teachers, programming for children with special needs, teacher relations with children, parents and other staff, peer relationships, managing challenging child behaviors and identifying quality. Field experience will include working with young children in an infant, toddler or preschool quality program on the UC Berkeley campus or in the surrounding area.
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This course provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the development needs of children from birth to age 5 in the context of the varied social institutions in which they are cared for and educated. Specific attention will be focused on how children's experiences within and beyond their families vary by social class, ethnicity and language, family needs and preferences, and special needs. Students will examine how expectations for young children change over time and will become familiar with current and past policy debates about the education and social well-being of young children. Also listed as Social Welfare C128 and Psychology C104.
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This course combines theory and practice in the study of literacy and development. It will introduce sociocultural educational theory and research focused especially on literacy teaching and learning, and this literature will be examined in practice through participation in computer-based after-school programs. In addition, the course will contribute to understanding of race, culture, and ethnicity in the United States. We will develop a view of literacy, not as a neutral skill, but as embedded within culture and as depending for its meaning and its practice upon social institutions and conditions.
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Exploration of issues confronting English and English language arts teachers today; curriculum trends and teaching practices; influence or reform efforts since the 1950s on English and language arts curriculum and practice; course assignments to include field work, interviews, reading and reports.
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Exploration of the role that literature can play in the acquisition of literacy in a first and second language. Linguistic and psycholinguistic issues: orality and literacy, discourse text, schema theory, and reading research. Literary issues: stylistics and critical reading, reader response, structure of narratives. Educational issues: the literary text in the social context of its production and reception by intended and non-intended readers. Also listed as German C106.
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Lectures and workshops on curriculum, instructional theory, and methods for teaching language arts in elementary schools. Incorporates competencies for Reading Instruction Competency Assessment (RICA) and for teaching children whose primary language is not English.
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Lectures and workshops on curriculum, instructional theory, and methods for teaching social studies methods in elementary schools.
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This course is offered as part of the undergraduate education minor, examines the multiple dimensions of teachers' work by drawing on theories of teacher socialization and teacher professional learning, and exploring representations of teachers in the media and popular culture, as well as in relevant academic literature. Students will be introduced to the current policy, social, cultural, historical, professional, employment and legal context of teachers' professional lives in the United States. Students will have the opportunity to examine these aspects of teachers' work by interacting with teachers in the field.
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An analysis of the logical and epistemological foundations of empirical research with the aim of developing a critical and vigorous approach to empirical inquiry, deductive and inductive logic, the structure of scientific theories, justification, falsification, the role of values, prediction and the nature of causality.
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This course will focus on understanding urban schools as a part of a broader system of social stratification and the process by which students in urban schools come to a sense of themselves as students, as members of cultural and racial groups, and as young people in America. Topics include racial identity; race/ethnicity in schools; urban neighborhood congtexts; and schooling in the juvenile justice system. Students will also integrate course readings with their own first-hand experience working in one of several off-campus sites. This course has a mandatory community engagement component for which students will earn 1 unit of field study (197) credit. Also listed as African American Studies C133A.
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Systematic survey of educational thought with emphasis on the epistemological, logical and ethical foundations of the major philosophies of education.
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This course is designed to provide an overview of the major discussions and debates in the area of gender and education. The main questions this course addresses are: What role does education play in defining and reproducing gender roles? How can education promote gender equity? We will explore these questions through a series of readings and case studies from the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The course will begin by surveying progress toward gender equality in formal education over the past century. We will examine how social movements, government policies, and international conventions have generated greater educational opportunities for both males and females. In the second part of the course, we examine a variety of topics that illustrate how we learn about gender in both schools and in other educational settings. Topics will include academic course taking and achievement, identity, media messages, and athletics. In the final part of the course, we will examine strategies that use education to reduce gender inequality and exclusion. Throughout the course, we will pay close attention to the intersection of gender, race, and social class.
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The southern border--from California to Florida--is the longest physical divide between the First and Third Worlds. This course will examine the border as a distinct landscape where North-South relations take on a specific spatial and cultural dimension, and as a region which has been the testing ground for such issues as free trade, immigration, and ethnic politics. Also listed as Ethnic Studies 159AC and Geography 159AC.
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