Educational Foundations (EDFN)
EDFN 1000 - Equality, Rights & Education (3 Credits)
Examines the history of U.S. public schooling through landmark court cases. Investigates/analyzes how apartheid came to be institutionalized, how forces of desegregation achieved a series of momentous victories, and how those victories have been undermined through the resegregation of schools.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Additional Information: Denver Core Requirement, Social Sciences; GT courses GT Pathways, GT-SS3, Soc Behav Sci:Hmn Behav, Cul.
EDFN 1010 - Lived Experiences and 21st Century Skills: An Introduction (1-5 Credits)
This internship course introduces the idea of 21st century skills embedded in various learning contexts and connecting them with lived experiences. Internships activities include entry level career experiences and workplace competencies. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 5.
Typically Offered: Fall.
EDFN 2030 - Lived Experiences and 21st Century Skills: Academic and Professional Skills (1-5 Credits)
This internship course connects 21st century skills embedded in academic and professional learning contexts with students’ lived experiences. Internships activities include entry level career experiences and workplace competencies. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 5.
EDFN 2060 - Lived Experiences and 21st Century Skills: Innovation and Critical Thinking (1-5 Credits)
This internship course connects 21st century skills embedded in innovation and critical thinking learning contexts with students’ lived experiences. Internships activities include entry level career experiences and workplace competencies. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 5.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
EDFN 2080 - Lived Experiences and 21st Century Skills: Global Literacies (1-5 Credits)
This internship course connects 21st century skills embedded in Global Literacies rich learning contexts with students' lived experiences. Internship activities include entry level career and experiences workplace competencies. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 5.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
EDFN 3010 - Lived Experiences and 21st Century Skills: Wilderness Medicine in Outdoor Education (1-6 Credits)
The course provides educators who integrate outdoor education in their teaching a theoretical knowledge of and practical application of wildness medicine care, risk management in remote and austere environments. Students build self-awareness and critical thinking through reflective exercises in personal risk management, leadership, and decision making. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
EDFN 3020 - Lived Experiences and 21st Century Skills: Environmental and Civic Literacies (1-5 Credits)
This internship course connects 21st century skills embedded in Environmental and Civic Literacies learning contexts with students’ lived experiences. Internships activities include entry level career experiences and workplace competencies. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 5.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
EDFN 3070 - Lived Experiences and 21st Century Skills: Digital Literacies (1-5 Credits)
This internship course connects 21st century skills embedded in digital literacies learning contexts with students’ lived experiences. Internships activities include entry level career experiences and workplace competencies. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 5.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
EDFN 3090 - Lived Experiences and 21st Century Skills: Social Emotional Learning (1-5 Credits)
This internship course connects 21st century skills embedded in Social Emotional rich learning contexts with students’ lived experiences. Internship activities include entry level career experiences and workplace competencies. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 5.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
EDFN 4010 - Social Foundations and Cultural Diversity in Urban Education (3 Credits)
This course focuses on the role of cultural diversity in the United States school system and what this means for educators oriented toward social justice. The intention of this course is to have teacher candidates engage in exploring the most salient issues surrounding education in the United States, developing an understanding of the complex relationships between schools and the larger society of which they are a part. This course closely examines important contemporary and historical societal issues such as race, social class, gender, ethnicity, sexual identity, politics, and dynamics of power and privilege. Cross-listed with EDFN 5010.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Restriction: Restricted to students in Education and Human Development with between 27 and 180 cumulative credit hours or students in the Education Minor, Teacher Education Minor or CLAS secondary students.
EDFN 4040 - Lived Experiences and 21st Century Skills: Collaboration (1-5 Credits)
This internship course connects 21st century skills embedded in collaborative learning contexts with students’ lived experiences. Internships activities include entry level career experiences and workplace competencies. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 5.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
EDFN 4050 - Lived Experiences and 21st Century Skills: Communication (1-5 Credits)
This internship course connects 21st century skills embedded in communication learning contexts with students’ lived experiences. Internships activities include entry level career experiences and workplace competencies. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 5.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
EDFN 4464 - Methods of Teaching Social Studies (3 Credits)
One of two courses on linguistically and culturally relevant social studies teaching. Course content includes geography, economics, civics. Note: EDFN 5464 was formerly listed as UEDU 5464. Cross-listed with EDFN 5464.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Restricted to Professional Year Admission students. (ECED-LICU or ENLA-LICU or ELED-LICU or WLFR-LICU or WLSP-LICU or MTHS-LICU or MSMA-LICU or SCIS-LICU or SPED-LICU or SOST-LICU)