Urban Education Policy @ Brown

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
ED0230 -- Structures and Systems in Urban Education	Prof. Simmons Prof. Palmer Wolf	Summer
ED0231 -- Introduction to Education Research: Design and Methods	Prof. Grady Prof. Foley	Summer
ED0232 --Quantitative Research Methods and Data Analysis	Prof. Cho	Fall
ED0233 -- Urban Politics and School Government	Prof. Wong	Fall
ED0234 -- Human Development and Urban Education	Prof. Garcia Coll	Fall
ED0235 -- Economics of Education	Prof. Tyler	Spring
ED0236 -- Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation for Education	Prof. West	Spring
ED0237 -- 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	ED101 – The Craft of Teaching ED102 –History of American Educ ED120 – History of American School Reform ED121 – People of Color and Public Education in U.S. History ED176 – Educ and Public Policy ED213 – Issues and Trends in Elementary Education	ED104 – Sociology of Education ED126 – Emotion, Cognition, and Education ED143 –Psychology of Race, Class and Gender ED145 – Psychology of Teaching ED158 – Cross Cultural Perspectives on Child Development ED175 – Contemporary Social Problems: Views from Human Development and Education ED186 – 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	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
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 ED110 – Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods SO105 – Methods of Research in Organizations SO112 – Sample Surveys in Social Research SO226 – Advanced Demographic Techniques	SO103 – Organizational Theories of the Public and Private Sectors SO106 – Leadership in Organizations

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