Fall 2025 Courses

First Year Seminars

FYS 100: What Can be Learned from a Children’s Book

Instructor: Pat Cunningham

TR 12:30 – 1:45

TR 2:00 – 3:15

Divisional Courses

EDU 101. Issues and Trends in Education. (3 h)

Educational issues and trends with a focus on K-12 schools and teachers. Focus will vary by instructor. Course can be repeated if topic differs. (D)

Course Sections:

EDU 101: Fostering Resilience in Schools and Colleges: The Role of Educators and Families

Instructor: Linda Nielsen

TR 2:00 – 3:15

EDU 101: How We Learn to Write

Instructor: Joan Mitchell

TR 9:30 – 10:45

EDU 201. Educational Policy and Practice. (3 h)

Philosophical, historical and sociological foundations of education, including analysis of contemporary accountability systems. (CD, D)

Instructor: Scott Baker

TR 2:00 – 3:15

TR 3:30 – 4:45

Instructor: Donal Mulcahy

WF 12:30 – 1:45

Instructor: Ali Sakkal

MW 12:30 – 1:45

MW 2:00 – 3:15

EDU 311. Learning and Cognitive Science. (3 h)

Theories and principles of cognition applied to teaching and learning. (CD, D)

Instructor: Casey Holmes

TR 2:00 – 3:15

TR 3:30 – 4:45

Required and Elective Courses

EDU 102L. Exploring School Communities. (2 h)

Field experience and seminar with a focus on K-12 schools in surrounding communities. Pass/Fail only.

Instructor: Jeff Faullin

T 9:00 – 10:50

W 12:00 – 1:50

R 12:00 – 1:50

F 9:00 – 10:50

EDU 111. Special Topics: Maker Literacy in Action (3 h)

A survey of topics in education. Focus will vary by instructor. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.

Instructor: Ali Sakkal

T 2:00 – 4:30

EDU 103A. Preparing for Community Engagement. (1.5 h)

Prepares students to extend their education beyond the classroom setting. Includes a focus on community-engaged service, mentoring, tutoring, teaching, and learning. Pass/Fail only.

Instructor: TBA

Day/Time: TBA

EDU 201. Educational Policy and Practice. (3 h)

Philosophical, historical and sociological foundations of education, including analysis of contemporary accountability systems. (CD, D)

Instructor: Scott Baker

TR 2:00 – 3:15

TR 3:30 – 4:45

Instructor: Donal Mulcahy

WF 12:30 – 1:45

Instructor: Ali Sakkal

MW 12:30 – 1:45

MW 2:00 – 3:15

EDU 231. Adolescent Literature . (3 h)

A survey of literature that centers on the lives of adolescents and young adults. Attention is given to the reading and interpretation of classic and contemporary literature across genres.

Instructor: Alan Brown & Heather Barto Wiley

T 5:00 – 7:50

EDU 307. Instructional Design, Assessment, and Technology. (3 h)

Introduction to contemporary technologies and their applications for supporting instruction, assessment, and professional practice. P – EDU 311.

Instructor: Leni Caldwell

WF 11:00 – 12:15

EDU 309L. Introduction to Secondary Education (2 h)

Practical experiences in classrooms with focus on secondary classrooms and students. Public school experience and seminar. Pass/Fail only. P-102L, or POI. 

Instructor: Alan Brown

MW 3:30 – 4:45

EDU 310. Race, Class, and Gender in a Color-blind Society. (3 h)

An examination of issues surrounding race, class, and gender in the United States. Topics include income and wealth, theories of discrimination, public education, gender bias, and patterns of occupational and industrial segregation. Also listed as AES 310.

Instructor: Dani Parker Moore

TR 12:30 – 1:45

*Co-located course; limited seats available

EDU 311. Learning and Cognitive Science. (3 h)

Theories and principles of cognition applied to teaching and learning. (CD, D)

Instructor: Casey Holmes

TR 2:00 – 3:15

TR 3:30 – 4:45

EDU 312. Teaching Exceptional Children. (3 h)

Examines the various types of learning differences in K-12 schools. Emphasis is on instructional planning, identification of interventions, and assessment techniques to support diverse learners.

Instructor: Leni Caldwell

WF 9:30 – 10:45

EDU 321: Advanced Issues and Trends in Education: Contemporary Theory of Rhetoric and Writing: Counting Writing. (3 h)

Concerned with how, and why, we define and measure “good writing.” Primarily a theoretical investigation into the different actors — teachers, schools, independent companies, governments, universities — who seek to assess writing, and how their different goals for writing assessment lead to different measurements of writing.

Instructor: Jeremy Levine

WF 2:00 – 3:15

*Co-located course; limited seats available

EDU 321: Advanced Issues and Trends in Education: Politics of Public Education. (3 h)

Introduces students to some of the most popular and contentious contemporary education policy debates and discusses what the U.S. school system tells us about the country’s fundamental political commitments.

Instructor: Sara Dahill-Brown

MWF 10:00 – 10:50

*Co-located course; limited seats available

EDU 330. Fathers and Daughters. (3 h)

Explores father-daughter relationships in contemporary American society through an interdisciplinary lens of film, literature, music, theater, media, and social science research. P-sophomore standing.

Instructor: Linda Nielsen

TR 3:30 – 4:45

EDU 373. Comparative and International Education. (3 h)

A study of various historical, political, economic, cultural, and social issues shaping education in selected countries throughout the world. The course aims to expand student understanding of differing educational and pedagogical structures and comparatively investigate educational issues around the globe. (CD)

Instructor: Donal Mulcahy

WF 2:00 – 3:15

EDU 395. Teaching Diverse Learners. (3 h)

This course addresses diversity in the classroom, particularly the needs of English Learners (EL) and exceptional children (EC). Examines differentiated instruction with appropriate instructional and behavioral strategies to meet the needs of all students.

Instructor: Dani Parker Moore

TR 9:30 – 10:45

College to Career Series

EDU 120. Personal Framework for Career Exploration. (1.5 h)

First course in the College to Career series. Focuses on student self-assessment including personal attributes such as values, interests, personality/temperament, strengths, and beliefs. Begins the process of connecting student attributes with the exploration of options in the world of work. Open to all students, but designed especially for first- and second-year students. Students may not enroll in EDU 120 and EDU 299 in the same semester. Half semester.

Taught 1st session

Instructor: Brian Calhoun

MW 12:30 – 1:45

TR 9:30 – 10:45

Instructor: Sharon Ralston

MW 12:30 – 1:45

EDU 220. Options in the World of Work. (1.5 h)

Second course in the College to Career series. Explores structure of the world of work, job functions and roles. Focus on nature and expectations of the world of work, including exploration of opportunities aligned with interests of students, and correlation between careers and education, career trajectories, graduate school, employment trends and the unique role work plays in creating meaning in the life of the individual. Open to all students, but designed for first and second year students. Students may not enroll in EDU 220 and EDU 299 in the same semester. Half semester.

Taught 2nd session

Instructor: Brian Calhoun

MW 12:30 – 1:45

TR 9:30 – 10:45

Instructor: Sharon Ralston

MW 12:30 – 1:45

Instructor: Heidi Robinson

MW 12:30 – 1:45

MW 2:00 – 3:15

EDU 320. Strategic Job Search Processes. (1.5 h)

Third course in the College to Career series. Provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills for an effective job search, including interviewing, communicating, networking, branding, marketing, evaluating offers, and negotiating. Half-semester course.

Taught 1st and 2nd session

Instructor: Brian Calhoun

WF 11:00 – 12:15

EDU 360. Professional and Life Skills. (1.5 h)

Fourth course in the College to Career series. Transition to life and work after college. Discusses work ethics and etiquette, work relationships, and ongoing career management. Also covers personal life skills such as budgeting and financial management, stress management, and avocations. Course applies liberal arts education to successful, meaningful life after college, including creation of an e-portfolio demonstrating professional competencies gained through the course of their Wake Forest experience. Senior standing only. Half semester.

Taught 1st session

Instructor: Heidi Robinson

MW 2:00 – 3:15

Elementary Education Student Teaching Courses (All courses P-POI)

EDU 293. Professional Development Seminar: Elementary. (3 h)

Seminar in which student teachers reflect on all aspects of the elementary school curriculum, including meeting the needs of diverse learners, lesson planning, best practices, classroom management and leadership. P-POI.

Instructor: Leah McCoy

T 2:00 – 3:15

EDU 250. Student Teaching: Elementary. (10 h)

Supervised teaching experience in grades K-6. Full-time. Includes a weekly reflective seminar. Service Learning. Pass/Fail only. P- POI.

Instructor: Leni Caldwell (with Jeff Faullin)

R 2:00 – 3:15

Secondary Education Methods Courses (All Courses P-POI)

EDU 354A. Teaching Secondary English. (3 h)

Methods and materials used in teaching secondary English. P-POI.

Instructor: Joan Mitchell

TR 11:00 – 12:15

EDU 354B. Teaching Secondary Mathematics. (3 h)

Methods and materials used in teaching secondary mathematics. P-POI.

Instructor: Leah McCoy

TR 11:00 – 12:15

EDU 354C. Teaching Secondary Social Studies. (3 h)

Methods and materials used in teaching secondary social studies. P-POI.

Instructor: Casey Holmes

TR 11:00 – 12:15

EDU 354D. Teaching Secondary Science. (3 h)

Methods and materials used in teaching secondary science. P-POI.

Instructor: Debbie French

TR 11:00 – 12:15