Year ONE

Provides understanding of characteristic ways of knowing in various liberal arts disciplines while examining subject matter, scope, key concepts, principles, methods, and theories. Analyzes philosophical traditions underlying educational practice and research.

​Notes: Required course during first spring semester of study in the program.

Teaches how to apply qualitative data collection and analysis procedures in educational research, including ethnographic and other field-based methods, and unobtrusive measures.

Notes: Emphases vary depending on student interests and needs.

Examines learning interactions between cognition and technology using multiple disciplinary perspectives, including cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, education, design theory, instructional design, technology design, anthropology, sociology, information science, philosophy, semiotics, and linguistics.

Covers selected emerging trends in learning technologies. Examines ways learning technologies provide infrastructure for creating, managing, and evaluating innovative types of teaching-learning environments.

Advanced course in interpreting and applying education research methods.

Emphasizes comparison of alternative philosophies of research, ways of formulating questions and hypotheses, research plans, and analysis procedures. Students evaluate existing studies, and investigate a range of research approaches.

This is a doctoral-level seminar that will focus on the use of artificial intelligence (Al) technologies, including generative Al (GenAl), in education. The objective of this course is for students to learn about the domain of education as well as how to conduct research.