176 / FIELDS OF INSTRUCTION

 GRADUATE COURSES
EDF 600-HISTORY OF EDUCATION. 5 credits
 Salient issues in education from the Reformation to the present.
EDF 601-ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL EDUCATION. 5 credits
 Pedagogical practice and thought in China, India, Semitic nations, Greece, Rome,
Islam, and medieval and Renaissance Europe.
EDF 610-PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION. 5 credits
 Philosophical bases for democracy and education.
EDF 620-Socio-EcONOMIC FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION. 5 credits
 A survey of the socio-economic bases for education.
EDF 625-EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY. 5 credits
 Prerequisite: EDF 620. Educational experiments with the social variables of
decision-making systems, task, or curriculum, group size, and group social com-
position.
EDF 630-INDIVIDUAL WORK. 2 to 5 credits
 For advanced students who wish to study individual problems in psychological,
social, or philosophical foundations of education, or research or measurement under
faculty guidance. May be repeated with change of content up to a maximum of
15 credits.
EDF 631-COMPARATIVE EDUCATION. 5 credits
 Relationships of school and society in different cultural areas of the world.
EDF 632-EDUCATION IN LATIN AMERICA. 5 credits
 Prerequisites: EDF 431, EDF 631, specialization in social science, or a reading
knowledge of an appropriate foreign language. Traditions and contemporary
problems.
EDF 640-EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. 5 credits
 Current research and theories in the area of human development.
EDF 641-EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: PERSONALITY DYNAMICS. 5 credits
 Dynamics of behavior and their implications for education, counseling and guid-
ance, administration, family relationships, and social action.
EDF 642-EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: PROBLEMS. 5 credits
 Individualized study of problems dealing with child development, adolescence,
learning, and other areas of educational psychology.
EDF 643-EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: LEARNING THEORY. 5 credits
 Logic and methodologies of theories of learning.
EDF 644-LABORATORY IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 1. 5 credits
 Supervised field and laboratory experiences in the observation, evaluation, and
educational modification of human development. Contact with children of different
ages and experience with learning, measurement, evaluation, and research.
EDF 645-LABORATORY IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 2. 5 credits
 Prerequisite: EDF 644. Continuation of EDF 644.
EDF 646-EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: GENERAL. 5 credits
 Basic principles, techniques, and research in educational psychology; designed for
graduate students preparing to teach who have a minimal background in psychology.
Not open to students majoring in psychology or psychological foundations of
education.
EDF 650-MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION. 5 credits
 Prerequisite: EDF 660. Procedures for measurement and evaluation in education.
EDF 660-EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS. 4 credits