Fall/Winter 2024-2025 is right around the corner! Have you considered taking a Selected Topics course? Selected Topics courses are offered each term and are centered around a chosen theme. These engaging themes reflect the issues and challenges of today’s society.
Did you know that you can take more than one Selected Topics course (with the same course code and different topic) and that Selected Topics courses can count as a concentration course? If you enroll in a Selected Topics course, it will automatically count as a concentration course (you do not need to make a request).
For more information, please consult the description for each below.
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EDU7300 DA00 - Current topic - Science & Society
Science & Society: Wicked Problems & Worldy Pedagogies : This interdisciplinary course sits at the crossroads of contemporary STEAM/STSE education and (almost) everything else: AI, sustainability, Queer theories, risk society, curriculum studies, ethics, etc. Readings and guest presentations focus on difficult questions and “wicked problems” facing the future of humanity in the Anthropocene
EDU7300 DS00 - Current topic - Media Literacy
Critical analysis of how print and multi-modal texts, such as video and photographs, construct and circulate meanings to diverse audiences; emphasis on student expression, voice and creation of media texts.
EDU7300 DS10 - Current topic - Oral History and Education
Academic and Personal Applications) Question: What do the following have in common: Indigenous Storytelling, A Recent History of the Supremes, A History of Ontario Anti-Racism Strategies and your grandmother’s account of teaching? Answer: Oral History: What is it and how can it expand our educational horizons, personal and academic?
EDU7300 DS20 - Current topic - Museum Spaces Learning
Outside of classroom teaching, the majority of learning occurs in informal settings such as museums, which includes zoos and aquaria. In this selected topics course, we will explore museum education through a variety of avenues: field trips, public programming, social media, and community partnerships.
EDU7300 DS30 - Current topic - e-Learning
Selected Topics (Instructional Design for e-Learning): Critical analysis of principles and methods of online learning instructional design; application to plan, develop, implement, and evaluate multimedia learning environments; evaluation of resources and educational services for inclusive and diverse supports to distance learnings in the context of digital technology.
