Urban Education Policy
Academic Coursework
The curriculum focuses specifically on education policy in urban settings. The twelve-month program consists of ten courses: eight required courses, including a required nine-month internship that counts as one course, and two elective courses. Two required courses are taken in the summer semester; three required and one elective are taken in each semester during the academic year.
Each cohort will begin their matriculation in the program in June and finish in the following May.
Required Courses
The eight required courses have as a unifying theme the role played by education policy in both enhancing and impeding equitable inputs and outcomes of children educated in the nation’s urban schools. The program will suggest and encourage elective courses that can be viewed as consonant with that theme, at least broadly speaking.
The required courses, instructors, and scheduling are as follows:
Course |
Instructor |
Schedule |
EDUC2300 -- Structures and Systems in Urban Education |
Summer |
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EDUC2310 -- Introduction to Education Research: Design and Methods |
Summer |
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Fall |
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EDUC2360 -- Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation for Education |
Staff |
Spring |
EDUC2370 -- Internship (concurrent during full academic year; counts as one course) |
Education Department faculty and Annenberg staff |
Fall-Spring |
Electives
Two of the ten course credits in the program will be satisfied by approved elective courses. The elective component of the program will allow students either to gain greater depth in a core area (e.g., research methods or in urban politics) or to broaden their experience in areas that are related to, but not directly covered by, core courses (e.g., organizational theory or public finance). Electives will be satisfied through approved 100 and 200 level courses regularly offered at Brown subject to the prerequisites and enrollment limits in place for any given course.
The elective component of the master’s program offers opportunities for substantive connections to be forged between the organizations directly involved in the master’s program and other departments and programs at Brown, particularly the Taubman Center, the Department of Community Health, the Department of Economics, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Political Science, the Urban Studies Program, and the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.
Potential Elective Areas and a Partial List of Related Courses
Public Policy |
Schools and School Reform |
Social Contexts of Education |
PS109 – Children and Public Policy PS119 – Federalism and Public Policy PP170 – Shaping Policy: Political Institutions in the US US142 –Urban Economics Policy |
EDUC101 – The Craft of Teaching EDUC102 –History of American Educ EDUC120 – History of American School Reform EDUC121 – People of Color and Public Education in U.S. History EDUC176 – Educ and Public Policy EDUC213 – Issues and Trends in Elementary Education |
EDUC104 – Sociology of Education EDUC126 – Emotion, Cognition, and Education EDUC143 –Psychology of Race, Class and Gender EDUC145 – Psychology of Teaching EDUC158 – Cross Cultural Perspectives on Child Development EDUC175 – Contemporary Social Problems: Views from Human Development and Education EDUC186 – Social Contexts of Learning and Development PB172 – Literature, Culture, and Schooling for the Language Minority Student PB 175 – Language, Culture and Society PB 202 – Theories of First and Second Language Acquisition PB 202 – Language Theory and Curriculum Development |
Economic Analysis |
Quantitative Analysis |
Schools and Communities |
EC111 – Intermediate Micro EC121 – Intermediate Macro EC131 – Labor Economics EC141 – Urban Economics EC143 – Population Economics EC148 – Public Economics EC180 – Politics and Finance PP170 – Economics and Public Policy |
BC207 – Multivariate Regression BC208 – Discrete/Event Time Data EC162 – Intro to Econometrics EC163/164 – Econometrics EC203/204 – Econometrics EC261 – Applied Econometrics SO201 – Multivariate Analysis
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AC161 – Child Welfare BC174 – Principle of Health Behavior BC236 – Public Health Interventions BC242 – Health Policy Analysis PP170 – Social Welfare Policy SO154 – Human Needs and Social Services SO220 – Social Capital and Social Networks
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Urban Politics |
Research Methods |
Organization and Leadership |
HI197 – Urban Crisis and American Political Culture PP170 – Urban Revitalization PS131 – African American Politics PS182 – Urban Politics and Urban Public Policy US21 – An Introduction to the City US100 – Fieldwork in the Urban Community US187(02) – Politics of Community Mobilizations US187(12) – American Culture and the City |
BC237 – Applied Research Methods EDUC110 – Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods SO105 – Methods of Research in Organizations SO112 – Sample Surveys in Social Research SO226 – Advanced Demographic Techniques
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SO103 – Organizational Theories of the Public and Private Sectors SO106 – Leadership in Organizations
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