Course Catalog

What is social change, what does it look like, and how do we as individuals choose to involve ourselves in social change? During this course we will discuss a brief history of social change, circumstances of societal groups in our country, and what motivates individuals to work toward social change.

Why are video games fun? The answer isn’t as obvious as you might think. Good games draw you in, teach you how to succeed, and keep you engaged with a “just right” level of challenge. Most importantly, players *learn* while playing a well-designed game. Why isn’t school like that? This class takes a hard look at video games, a hard look at education, and considers ways that each can be improved to maximize learning.

Crosslisted with LSA DIGITAL 333

This course will take an academic approach to Name, Image & Likeness covering the following topics:
 

• Explore the historical aspects of college athletics, specifically focusing on compensation, growth, oversight, and issues related to race/gender inequity.
• Examine the funding model of college athletics, including key revenue sources such as conference distributions, brand licensing, apparel deals, and more.
• Analyze the challenges and opportunities presented by the introduction of NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness), considering other concurrent changes like the expanded transfer portal, conference realignment, and the momentum towards revenue sharing.
• Investigate the impact of emerging services from NIL such as Collectives, agents, investment advisors, as well as tax, law, and financial literacy services on college athletes.
• Assess the reactions and influence of external stakeholders tied to schools, such as fans, boosters, and donors, in response to NIL implementation.
• Examine relevant Federal rights and laws (Title IX, free speech, civil rights, IRS, Supreme Court) and their implications for NIL.
• Analyze the complexities of varying state laws, NCAA guidelines, and the process of reconciling them with other areas of oversight, and explore how these factors impact individual school policies.
• Explore the potential for additional athlete compensation through revenue sharing of TV, apparel, and media rights revenue, and evaluate its impact on the overall model of college athletics.
• Assess the overall impact, opportunities, threats, and new challenges faced by student-athletes, with a focus on understanding NIL implementation in both revenue and non-revenue sports.
• Speculate on the mid- and long-term future of college athletics, considering the challenges, influencing factors, and stakeholders discussed throughout the course.
   

Thriving in a world where increasingly capable generative Artificial Intelligence systems exists will require that you know something about them, and a great deal about yourself - how you can manage learning, working, and forming healthy relationships in this new context. The aim of this course is to help you develop an informed framework for navigating these changes. The course will combine foundational knowledge from cognitive science with practical engagement with AI tools and critical examination of their social, cultural, and ethical implications.

For many, some of the best athletic coaches provide great examples of leadership. But why? What do they do differently from leaders in other fields, and what helps them to lead effectively? We will explore the concepts of coaching (athletically and in general) and leadership; their juxtaposition and inter-relationship. We will explore coaching and leadership across various industries and platforms including sports, business, and healthcare. Our expert guest speakers will share their own philosophies and experiences. Through a series of readings, guest speakers, lectures, and small group interactions, we hope students grow in their understanding of the keys to becoming an effective leader and coach. Many, if not all of you, will be charged with coaching and leading in various capacities during your personal and professional lives (e.g. parent, coach, mentor, manager, educator, consultant, etc). Through this course, you will assess and start to develop your own coaching and leadership philosophies through theories, policies, and practices. 

This combined graduate/undergraduate seminar offers students the opportunity to explore and engage with global, interdisciplinary, theoretical frameworks of race, racism, and racialization derived from or utilized in educational research from the late 19th century through the 21st century.

This course meets with EDUC 543.

This course seeks to fulfill the following objectives: 1) disrupt hegemonic conceptualizations of Latinidad, 2) identify how dominant narratives (both US-based and transnational) shape policy, curriculum, and the educational experiences of Latine students and families, and 3) explore the limits and possibilities of education and schooling to diminish oppression.

Counts toward Education for Empowerment Minor & Psychology Minor. Every society devotes substantial resources to shaping children's development, but there are important differences in how children enter into and experience education across cultures. These differences reveal what societies value, fear, and believe about learning and development. By comparing education in diverse societies, we identify both universal features of development and particular ways that different societies promote healthy, competent adults. This course examines how cultural values, family background, educational practices, and historical contexts create different pathways for human development from preschool through adolescence. 

PALS is designed to give undergraduate and Master’s students experience working with students, families, teachers, and community members in K-12 public school settings. Students will gain insight into university-school partnerships and the ways that such partnerships can support the academic, social, and emotional development of children and youth. The course is framed from a positive youth development perspective and emphasizes the personal, familial, school, and community factors that promote resilience and optimal development of children and youth typically deemed “at-risk”.

This course is designed to support Wolverine Pathways (WP), a university-sponsored, out of school time program for eligible middle school and high school students. In addition to reading relevant scholarly literature, the course fosters insights and skills through involvement in curriculum development and evaluation activities with and for students, their families and various program stakeholders.

This course focuses on using tools to promote positive social change in Michigan, through student-designed legislative proposals and service activities. Students experience online deliberation and decision-making in an innovative civic education environment, while encountering a range of state-wide issues embedded in topics including public health, justice environment, education, culture, poverty, and economic development. Coursework is done largely online, with some required in-person events.

Students assume character roles in virtual, online storybooks focused on our nation's history and cultural life as they mentor elementary school students. They explore questions of the intelligent use of information resources and engage in reflection on the nature of teaching and learning; students also carry out web-based project design work and interact with classroom teachers across the state in their mentorship activity. The class includes site visits to some participating schools.

Students serve as mentors to middle school and high school student participants in a web-based project focused on poetry. As they read and respond to the work of the young poets, seeking to place the poets at the center of discussions of their work and the creative process, students engage in ongoing reflection on the teaching and learning dimensions of their mentoring work. Students also write extensively, and they explore the professional literature for teachers on supporting student creativity.

This course examines factors that contribute to (or detract from) our ability to reach peak performance in everything we do. Mental, emotional, psychological, and physical wellness are key to performance and productivity. Students will learn practices to promote wellness, in themselves and others, to support learning, teaching, coaching, and leadership.

This course aims to support undergraduates interested in research and evaluation of educational offerings of schools, companies, and nonprofits. Students learn about designs, methods, and techniques used in social research and their application to the study of educational programs. They get experience reading and critiquing education research publications, and hands-on experience designing a research instrument and analyzing education data.