Master's of Arts: Education and Society

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Master of Arts (M.A.) Education and Society (Non-Thesis)(45 Credits)

Offered by:Integrated Studies in Ed

Degree:Master of Arts

Program Requirement:

The M.A. non-thesis option consists mostly of coursework, and includes two 6 credit projects. This option is suitable for practitioners interested in professional development with a research and theoretical orientation. The project creates an opportunity for students to investigate a particular interest.

Research Project (12 credits)

EDER 633 Project 1 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: Theoretical or practical project to explore and analyze an area of interest relevant to education and society.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Fall, Winter
- Taken in final semester.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 634 Project 2 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: Theoretical or practical project to explore and analyze an area of interest relevant to education and society.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Fall, Winter
- Prerequisite: EDER 633
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year

Required Courses (6 credits)

EDEM 609 Critical Perspect Ed Theo&Res 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Admin & Policy Studies in Ed: Critical exploration of contemporary issues in educational theory and research, in terms of current scholarship in the field, current educational contexts, and various research paradigms. Educational issues as expressions of social, ethical, political, economic, epistemological and cultural reconfigurations. Students will learn to be critical consumers of educational theories and research.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Fall, Winter
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEM 690 Research Methods: Theo & Pract 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Admin & Policy Studies in Ed: Overview of the epistemological foundations of a range of research methods, including but not limited to quantitative, philosophical, qualitative, arts-based, and mixed methods. Students will learn techniques to conduct research and to develop a research proposal.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Fall, Winter
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year

Complementary Courses (15 credits)

EDEA 555 Applied Theatre 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Arts Education: Exploration of the practices of theatre and drama in non-traditional settings, encompassing theatre practices and process drama that tackle areas of social and cultural policy such as public health, education, housing and social welfare.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEA 655 Arts-Based Eductnl Research 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Arts Education: Forms of thinking and portraying that emanate from the arts: music, dance, drama, visual art, poetry, which provide an aesthetically-oriented lens from which to examine perspectives and premises that influence educational practice, and to develop processes that use one or more of the arts.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEC 602 Foundations in Curriculum 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Curriculum and Instruction: This course introduces the field of curriculum studies, including a historical approach to the discourses, debates and issues that have shaped it. Students will actively explore relationships between curriculum theory and professional as well as pedagogical practice.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Fall
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEC 606 Self-Stdy,Autoeth,&Autobcl Res 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Curriculum and Instruction: Critical and ethical engagement with the relationship between self and other through various auto/biographical approaches to research in education, such as self-study, autoethnography, currere, life writing, artistic practices, writing the self, and memory-work. Exploration of various forms of writing, representation, analysis and critical discussion

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEC 612 Digital Media and Learning 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Curriculum and Instruction: This course addresses emerging theories, pedagogies, and practices related to youth learning through digital media and online participatory cultures. Through direct engagement with multiple forms of digital media and youth, students will consider implications for teaching and learning within and beyond schools.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Fall
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
- Please note: students taking this course as part of a Teacher Education Program leading to certification will also integrate e-portfolios.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEC 617 Special Topics in Ed Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Curriculum and Instruction: Explores important current issues in the field of Educational Studies. (Content varies from year to year).

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Winter
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEC 620 Meanings of Literacy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Curriculum and Instruction: Investigation of basic issues related to definitions of literacy. Issues include new directions in literacy and education, the need for non-print literacies in contemporary life, and the challenges these changes present for educators.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Winter
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EDEM 620.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEC 627 Critical Discourse Stud in Ed 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Curriculum and Instruction: Examines critical theories of and approaches to studying discourse, with a focus on the roles of discourse as social and ideological practice in (re-)producing, questioning or challenging power relations, subject positions and established social orders. Emphasis is placed on theory and practice of discourse studies in educational contexts.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEC 628 Lit-Multiling/Multicult Settgs 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Curriculum and Instruction: This course examines the teaching of literacy in a range of multilingual and multicultural settings in schooling and society, primarily from the sociocultural perspectives of self and group identity as well as empowerment within majority-minority group relations.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Fall
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEC 635 Research Writing 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Curriculum and Instruction: The course offers a research-led introduction to processes and practices of research writing. Working to develop their research writing projects, students learn to examine, critically reflect on, and participate in the research writing practices in their fields, guided by current research on the discursive construction of knowledge.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Fall, Winter
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEC 650 Critical Race Studies & Educ 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Curriculum and Instruction: Investigates the relationships among race, racialization, and education. Defines education as the processes through which we claim identities, make knowledge claims, and how we learn to take action in the world. Concerned with 1) how we come to know and produce knowledge through race, 2) the pedagogical processes that normalize racial inequity; and 3) the impact of racializing knowledge and structures for variously racialized persons in educational settings. Surveys a range of intersectional critical race theoretical frameworks particularly in Canada. Relevant for developing a critically-engaged educational practice, for whom race, racialization, and social justice are central concerns.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEM 655 Indigenous Res Methodologies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Admin & Policy Studies in Ed: Explores theoretical and methodological foundations of Indigenous research. Pays special attention to research positionality as seen through the lenses of settler colonialism and Indigeneity. Highlights importance of Indigenous-led research and decolonizing methodologies. Considers various dimensions of Indigenous research including relationality, responsibility, respect, and reflexivity. Examines the process of decolonizing research by centering Indigenous knowledges, languages, cultures, histories, and identities.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Not open to students who have taken EDEC 617 when topic was "Decolonizing and Indigenous Research Methodologies".
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEM 679 Spec Top 3 in Ed Leadership 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Admin & Policy Studies in Ed: Selected topics in educational leadership.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDEM 688 Critcl&Partcptry Resrch Mthds 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Admin & Policy Studies in Ed: Exploration of several critical and participatory research methodologies (such as Black radical, feminist and activist ethnography) to understand their implications for study methods (framing research questions, data collection and analysis).

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 600 Globalization, Educ. & Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: The impact of globalization on educational institutions, processes and practices. Topics may include the politics of change, teachers' work, educational reform, technology, environment, educational management and leadership.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 606 Philosophy of Moral Education 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: A study of principles underlying contemporary moral education such as what constitutes moral values and judgments, normative basis for morality, and differing foundations employed in determining moral norms.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 607 Ethics and Values in Education 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: Considers education as a concept and practice influenced by values (ethical, religious, aesthetic, cultural, political, etc.). Includes a critical examination of selected approaches to values education.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 608 Educ Implic of Social Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: An analysis of some of the educational implications of various social and political theories: liberalism, Marxism and others.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Fall
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 609 Educ. & Philosophical Thought 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: An analysis of the educational implications of various philosophical positions concerning the nature of reality and the nature of knowledge.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Fall
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
- Although this course follows a Monday class schedule pattern, there will be an online class on Fridays May 17 and June 21st.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 614 Sociology of Education 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: Social context of schooling, including education and social stratification and socialization processes within and outside schools.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Winter
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 615 Intro to PhilosophyofEducation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: Explores questions, aims, debates and modes of inquiry that characterize philosophical approaches to studying educational questions. Introduces philosophy of education as a distinctive field of educational research and may focus on figures or themes of contemporary interest.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Winter
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 617 Aesthetics and Education 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: An examination and critical analysis of selected readings on the topic of aesthetics, with specific reference to their application to educational practice.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Fall
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 622 Studies in Comparative Educ 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: Comparative study of the economic, political and social aspects of education systems.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 625 Special Topics in Ed Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: Explores important current issues in the field of Educational Studies. (Content varies from year to year.)

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 626 Theory&Praxis of Cult&Citzshp 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: Study and critique of contemporary ethics and cultural education models with a specific emphasis on Quebec’s Culture and Citizenship program. Introduction to a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives on the roles culture and citizenship play starting from our personal lives to the classroom.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 643 Women, Education&Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: This course will trace the major theoretical developments in women and development and relate them to educational issues in the formal, non-formal and informal settings. There will be an emphasis on the significance and policy implications of women's education for sustainable developments in the countries of the South.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
EDER 649 Educ:Multicultural Societies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: Majority-minority relations and their implications for educational policy and practice.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year

Elective Courses (12 credits)

12 credits at the 500 level or higher. An elective course can be any course in DISE. If the course is outside of the department, the student should consult with the Program Director or Coordinator prior to registering for the course. A maximum of 6 credits outside DISE is permitted.

For more information, see Programs, Courses and University Regulations.

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