Curriculum Analysis & Design: What We Teach, Why It Matters, and What Could Be
EDST 360
Spring 2025
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The topic of curriculum -- what is taught, what counts as knowledge, who gets centered, and what is left out or made invisible -- is a central component of education studies. All stakeholders are impacted by the curricular decisions about what is taught in schools. The concept of what curriculum is -- a pre-packaged textbook or a district-created roadmap -- has shifted across time and has implications for what it means to be a teacher. Curriculum also impacts whose experiences are included and excluded from courses and how we prepare students for life beyond school. This course will help students develop understanding of the scholarship around curriculum as well as gain first hand experience both analyzing and creating curriculum themselves. In this course, students will come to understand what curriculum is and isn't, the process of creating and adopting curriculum from a systems perspective, and the many competing forces behind decisions that get made. A deep dive into curriculum can add a bridge between theories of culturally responsive pedagogy, critical studies, conceptions of literacy, civic education and actual practice. Course content will be useful for students thinking about careers as teachers, policymakers, journalists, researchers, or educational publishers. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS EDST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Sample Readings
The Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative. NYU. (2023). Lessons in (In)Equity: An Evaluation of Cultural Responsiveness in Elementary ELA Curriculum.
McTighe, J. & Brown, P. (2020). Standards Are Not Curriculum: Using Understanding By Design to Make the Standards Come Alive. Science and Children. 58(1).
Hartl, S. & Riley, C. (2021). High-Quality Curriculum Is a Transformation Tool for Equity.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Muhammad, G. (2021). Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy. Scholastic.
Cullen, R., Hill, M., & Reinhold, R. (2012). Learner-Centered Curriculum: Design and
Implementation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
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Examinations and Assignments:
1 short analysis paper focused on class themes
Prepare for and facilitate a class discussion
Collaborative curriculum analysis presentation- using tools created in class, critique and make recommendations of a sample curriculum
Curriculum design: Students will choose a topic and design a curricular unit including goals, essential questions, assessments, resources, and instructional ideas (broken into three parts, with in-class feedback) |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Send Prof. Goldberg a brief email explaining your interest in this course and which EDST courses you have taken before, as well as other relevant background.
This course will satisgy the Pedagogy requirement for the EDST major and EDST minor. |
| Instructor(s): Goldberg,Gravity Times: .M..... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: 164MTV108; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 15 | Permission of instructor approval will be granted by the instructor during pre-registration through the Electronic Portfolio. Click "Add to My Courses" and "To request a POI electronically, click here" to submit your request. |
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