Explore some of the highly rated and popular featured courses offered by School of Education departments during Summer Term. These courses cover a wide range of interest areas and many fulfill breadth requirements. Register soon. Some of these courses fill up fast.
Art
448: Hollowware Workshop
Week-long workshop learning to form a flat piece of metal into a cup and bowl.
306: Relief Printmaking
Woodcut, collage print, linoleum cut, and wood engraving; color printing.
454: Neon: Light as Sculpture
Introduction to light as a sculptural medium including techniques for creating art using luminous tubes.
Counseling Psych
125: The Wisconsin Experience Seminar
Examine transition to UW-Madison through exploration of the resources and opportunities of the research university and the Wisconsin Experience. This course uses a variety of texts, including a novel and textbook, to provide a context for discussion, writing, and experiential assignments.
225: Intersectionalities, self-awareness, and social actions for social change
An introduction to the intersectionality framework in the United States to enhance skills necessary for culturally responsive awareness and interactions, with specific emphasis on how to think critically about and hold multiple perspectives and how to prepare for service learning. In addition to learning how contexts and social histories matter to situate an understanding of experience, develop self-awareness and understanding of social location as well as learn how contextual factors shape identity, opportunities, and barriers for others. This course is relevant for all students of different identities, backgrounds, and experiences, who are interested in developing their awareness, knowledge and skills with multiculturalism and diversity. CP225 counts toward the university’s Ethnic Studies Requirement (ESR) and can be taken as part of the Health Promotion Health Equity major.
655: Clinical Communication Skills
Designed to help students develop an understanding of the clinical communication process, introduce applications of this process in a variety of contexts, and practice and develop clinical communication skills. Gain familiarity with research and theory on communication in a variety of clinical settings. This course provides didactic and experiential training in developing basic competencies in clinical communication and listening skills, including personal and cultural characteristics that impact the communication process. CP655 counts toward the Health Promotion Health Equity major.
Curriculum & Instruction
319: Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Elementary Mathematics 1
Develops preservice teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching i.e., Pedagogical Content Knowledge - the kind of knowledge that blends mathematical and pedagogical understandings. Explores topics defined by the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics such as foundations of arithmetic, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers and integers, the base-ten system, number theory, foundations of fraction operations and geometry.
320: Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Elementary Mathematics 2
An online class to explore theories of first and second language acquisition (SLA) and factors that impact language and literacy learning and development for English Learners. Analyze the language learning and language use of an emergent bilingual student across multiple contexts at a practicum site. This course is a required for K-12 ESL teaching license, take it in the summer instead of fall semester!!
406: Race, Intersectionality & Equity in Education
Addresses a range of issues to help teachers more thoughtfully and equitably serve their students of color and develop a critical and historical understanding of the racism, marginalization, and exclusion that is endemic to the U.S. public school system. Provides an overview of foundational constructs that are essential for pre-service teachers preparing to teach and serve diverse students and families. Explore how race, racism, and racialization in education intersect with class, gender, dis/ability, religion, sexuality, etc. to shape inequitable schooling conditions and experiences for students of color. Analyze the effects at the individual, interactional, institutional, and societal levels Consider how power always-already enables particular policies and practices that reproduce educational inequities and hence sustain white privilege and dominance.
Dance
168: Dance Gender: Embodiment, Politics and Feminist Theory
Gender theories and feminist theories emphasize the body as a crucial site for understanding gender distinctions. Since the body plays a central role in both the art of dance and the academic field of dance studies, these theories can be examined through the lens of dance. By drawing on a diverse range of examples and dance genres—including Ballroom, Bollywood, Folk Dance, Ballet, and more—this exploration highlights the cultural specificity of gender norms. This course illustrates how dance has the potential to challenge heteronormativity through performance.
268: Political and Cultural Perspectives in Dance Studies
Examines the role of dance as a cultural form of expression within the political sphere. Draws on a variety of case studies ranging from popular dance TV shows, to European modern dance and from hip-hop to dancing at public protests and asks the question of what constitutes dance and what is its social and political function.
318: West African Dance/Music in the Americas
The influence of traditional West African dance/music heritage in historical, artistic, social contexts in the development of new hybrid forms of music/dance created by cross-pollination of cultures of Africans, Europeans and indigenous peoples in the New World.
Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis
702: Introduction to Educational Leadership
Examine leadership in K12 schools for more equitable outcomes. Delve into key social justice concepts, principal leadership, teacher leadership, the interplay between principals and informal/formal teacher leaders, and how a more robust, encompassing view of leadership can contribute to more equitable student learning outcomes.
701: Introduction to Higher and Post-Secondary Education
Examines the history and philosophy of higher and postsecondary education; the major participants; curriculum; governance and leadership; relations with state and federal government; and current issues.
442: Civil Rights, the Courts & Public Education
An exploration of how federal court cases affect students' and educators' civil rights in K-12 public schools. Civil rights protections relating to students and educators in charter schools and school voucher programs will also be discussed.
Educational Policy Studies
209: Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Education Policy
Sound education policy benefits from the use of reliable evidence, including good data and thorough analyses of both challenges and solutions. This course develops your understandings of existing data sets and their limitations, as well as how to perform different statistical analyses on those data sets in order to address specific policy questions
320: Climate Change, Sustainability, and Education
Learn about human-earth relationships, and the causes and consequences of climate and environmental change. In this course, you’ll develop a critical, global approach to examining the role of education, in school and out, in addressing crucial climate and environmental challenges.
Explore All Educational Policy Studies Summer Courses
Check out the rest of the ED POL courses offered this summer on the Courses & Resources website! You can see our other amazing courses including ED POL 112: Global Education Through Film, ED POL 140: Introduction to Education, and ED POL 220: Human Rights and Education
Educational Psychology
301: How People Learn
If you've ever wondered about how we learn, think, & know, join our class that is designed to examine the social & psychological principles that inform our understanding of the world around us. Explore foundational theories of learning, implications of thinking, & relationships between theory & application in the world. This course has been professionally developed and designed as an asynchronous, online course.
320: Human Dev - Infancy & Childhood
Want to learn about infants and children? If so, this class is for you! This course provides a broad overview of developmental changes from conception through childhood, such as changes in physical, motor, perceptual, cognitive, language, emotional, and social development. This course has been professionally developed and designed as an asynchronous, online course.
326: Mind, Brain and Education
What can we learn from studying the brain? Mind, Brain and Education (MBE) is an emerging field that bridges neuroscience, psychology, and education. This asynchronous course provides a broad overview of brain development from birth to adolescence in educational contexts, such as how the brain changes in response to learning. This is an asynchronous, online course.
Kinesiology
150: Foundations of Health Behavior and Health Equity
Provides students with an overview of the personal, interpersonal and broader social factors that contribute to the health and well-being of individuals and populations in the United States. Examinations of contemporary approaches to health education and health behavior interventions including: Foundations of health education and health behavior programs, health indicators, social and structural determinants of health and health disparities, models of health education/health behavior that support interventions for individuals and communities.
335: Physiology
Core concepts in human physiology from cells to organ-systems via online lectures and active learning activities including laboratory experiments. Topics include homeostasis, membrane transport, cellular physiology, regulation of metabolism, and functions of the nervous, endocrine, muscular, reproductive, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, and gastrointestinal system.
387: The Young Athlete: Considerations for Exercise, Medicine and Activity
Sports are a great way for children to stay physically active, but adults are changing sports in ways that impact children in negative ways. Focuses on how kids are different than adults in terms of their needs for exercise and physical activity. Topics include physical activity epidemiology, growth, maturation, and sport specialization. Additional focus on common orthopedic injuries in the adolescent and pediatric populations and how injuries in young athletes are treated.
Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education
100 – Disability and Society
Provides introductory and interdisciplinary life-span perspectives on disability, relevant for both education and non-education majors. Introduces theoretical, cultural, and political models of disability and explores the lived experiences of persons with disabilities (or people who are perceived to have disabilities) in society.
300: Individuals with Disabilities
Designed to expand the knowledge base of future educators, clinicians, and society members to better understand and serve the diverse needs and interests of individuals with disabilities. Introduces the concept of disability as well as the field of special education. The history, etiology, and characteristics of specific categories of disability are examined, as are educational and other federally mandated programs designed to address the needs of both children and adults with disabilities. Topics germane to the study of disability and the field of special education are explored.
310: Positive Psychology and Well Being
Introduction to positive psychology, or the science of human strengths, mental health, and well-being. Covers theory and current research on positive psychology including concepts of optimism, flow, gratitude, and purpose in life. Positive psychology concepts are discussed within the context of health promotion, with an emphasis on minimizing the impact of illness and disability. Learn to apply positive psychology concepts in personal and professional contexts to cultivate fulfilling, healthy, and meaningful lives.
Theatre & Drama
100: Experiencing Theater
By attending live theatre performances, watching films of theatrical productions and participating in colloquiums with theatre professionals, explore how theatre is made through the lens of various theatre artists. Through this exploration, develop an understanding and a deeper appreciation of performative events as well as critically think about those experiences. Explores performance and the human condition, using acquired knowledge to build empathy and appreciation for the complexities of one's own and other people's perspectives.
360: Performance in Practice
Students gain practical theatrical experience, skills, and knowledge by working on a University Theatre production. The assignments will involve responsibilities as Actor, Director, Assistant Director, Stage Manager, Assistant Stage Manager, or other approved performance related positions on a University Theatre production.
200: Acting Skills for Life
Skills learned by actors in the theatre world can be applied to presentations and interactions in business, education, and beyond. Utilizing acting techniques traditionally used in theatre to enhance confidence and communication in interviews, presentations, elevator pitches, authentically connecting on a personal level with others, and how to avoid or better deal with stage fright.