EDCI 7820: Advanced Curriculum Theory and Practice

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission into the Curriculum and Instruction Ed.S. program and EDCI 7810
This course examines contemporary advancements in the field of curriculum studies. This course explores curriculum and instruction research and scholarship with an emphasis on connections to educational policy and current educational challenges, issues, and topics. Students will become familiar with various contemporary curriculum scholars and their corresponding bodies of work. This course helps to prepare you for the CIES Capstone Project. One of the CIES Capstone Project options is the creation of a response manuscript that will focus on your examination of the research of a particular curriculum scholar and be submitted for review and publication. The major assignment in this course, the Scholars-in-Complicated-Conversation Final Paper, prepares you with the skills necessary for the CIES Response Manuscript capstone project. This course builds upon the work of Foundations of Curriculum, as well as the other courses in the Curriculum and Instruction Educational Specialist program of study. Students enrolled in this course will advance their understanding of the field of curriculum and instruction, with a particular focus on contemporary advancements, recent policy issues, and current educational challenges, issues, and topics.