Academic Catalog 2024-2025

Education Foundations (EDFD)

EDFD 576  His Black Ed In America  (3 Credits)  
Lecture: 3, Lab: 0  

African-American Education (3) Traces the education of black people in America from their arrival from Africa to the present.

College/School: College Of Education

Department: Dept of EducAdmin/Found

EDFD 581  Foundations Of Education  (3 Credits)  
Lecture: 3, Lab: 0  

Foundations of Education (3) Deals with the sociological, economic, philosophical and historical foundations of American education. Reports and research papers provide opportunities for individual exploration of special interests.

College/School: College Of Education

Department: Dept of EducAdmin/Found

EDFD 632  Ed Stat  (3 Credits)  
Lecture: 3  

College/School: College Of Education

Department: Dept of EducAdmin/Found

EDFD 633  Research  (3 Credits)  
Lecture: 3, Lab: 0  

Prerequisite(s): EPSY 831

College/School: College Of Education

Department: Dept of EducAdmin/Found

EDFD 856  Restorative Discipline  (3 Credits)  
Lecture: 3  

This course provides an introduction and expousure to the principles of restorative dicipline and its application to the treatment of students for "breaking classroom and school rules." The framework of the course is, in part, based on social work values and the ethical decison-making process. 3 credit hours per week.

College/School: College Of Education

Department: Dept of EducAdmin/Found

EDFD 902  Theoretical Fdtns Of Ed  (3 Credits)  
Lecture: 3, Lab: 0  

THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION (3) This course is designed to review significant historical, philosophical, sociological, psychological foundations and education theories related to improving current educational practice.

College/School: College Of Education

Department: Dept of EducAdmin/Found

EDFD 903  Nature Methodology Ed Res  (3 Credits)  
Lecture: 3, Lab: 0  

THE NATURE AND METHODOLOGY OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (3) Major methods of conducting educational research and types of problems wherein they apply. Studies that may serve as models for research efforts; research reporting.

College/School: College Of Education

Department: Dept of EducAdmin/Found

EDFD 905  Nature Meth Ed Res  (3 Credits)  
Lecture: 3, Lab: 0  

THE NATURE AND METHODOLOGY OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (3) A continuation of EDFD 903.

Prerequisite(s): (EDFD 903)

College/School: College Of Education

Department: Dept of EducAdmin/Found

EDFD 931  Ed Res Corr Stat Methods  (3 Credits)  
Lecture: 3, Lab: 0  

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH: CORRELATION STATISTICAL METHODS (3) Brief review of elementary statistics, normal curve functions, correlation theory and application to educational data. Concepts and computations associated with bivariate, partial, and multiple correlations. (Prerequisite: EDFD 831 or instructor’s permission)

Prerequisite(s): (EDFD 831)

College/School: College Of Education

Department: Dept of EducAdmin/Found

EDFD 932  Ed Res Sig Tests Stat Methods  (3 Credits)  
Lecture: 3, Lab: 0  

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH: SIGNIFICANCE TESTS AND STATISTICAL METHODS FOR EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN (3) Probability theory and theoretical distributions in experimental design; binomial, normal curve, T ratio. Concepts and computation associated with research, including t-tests, simple and complex analysis of variance. (Prerequisite: EDFD 931)

Prerequisite(s): (EDFD 931)

College/School: College Of Education

Department: Dept of EducAdmin/Found

EDFD 940  SPSS & Data Management  (3,6 Credits)  
Lecture: 3,6, Lab: 0  

This course is designed to provided an introduction to Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). It will address a variety of statistical variables, entering of data into SPSS, and the carrying out of statistical analyses.

College/School: College Of Education

Department: Dept of EducAdmin/Found

EDFD 980  Hist Of Ed In U S  (3 Credits)  
Lecture: 3, Lab: 0  

HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES (3) This course focuses on the historical development of the educational systems in the United States. Concepts and theories which have shaped the nation’s schools form the basis of the course.

College/School: College Of Education

Department: Dept of EducAdmin/Found

EDFD 997  Research Seminar  (3 Credits)  
Lecture: 3, Lab: 0  

RESEARCH SEMINAR (3) Intensive study to design applicable research problems in education. Study of problems related to proposed dissertation research. May be repeated. (Prerequisite: EDFD 931, 932 or permission of advisor and instructor)

Prerequisite(s): EDFD 903 and EDFD 905

College/School: College Of Education

Department: Dept of EducAdmin/Found