Education Sciences Certificate
The following requirements are in addition to, or further elaborate upon, those requirements outlined in The Graduate School Policy Guide.
Certificate
Total Units Required: 9-18
The Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences (MPES) is designed for PhD students who want to pursue a research career studying critical policy and practice issues in the field of education. The program provides a unified system of research mentoring and coursework for students from a diverse set of academic fields. Students acquire knowledge of related work in a group of core related disciplines and engage in education-related research informed by the resulting cross-disciplinary insights.
Note, in many cases, students would complete some of these courses while meeting the typical requirements for their home program. Thus, although we have listed nine required courses, few students would need take nine additional courses.
Course Requirements:
Methods (4 required courses)
Take one of the following general courses:
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| HDSP 410-0 | Quantitative Methods I: Probability and Statistics |
| LRN_SCI 410-0 | Quantitative Methods I: Probability and Statistics |
| PSYCH 451-1 | Statistics in Experimental Design |
Take two of the following more specialized courses on quantitative methods:
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| STAT 356-0 | Hierarchical Linear Models |
| HDSP 411-0 | Quantitative Methods II: Regression Analysis |
| LRN_SCI 411-0 | Quantitative Methods II: Regression Analysis |
| HDSP 412-0 | Quantitative Methods III: Empirical Tools for Causal Quantitative Analysis |
| PSYCH 405-0 | Psychometric Theory |
| PSYCH 454-0 | Psychological Measurement (Structural Equation Modeling) |
| STAT 439-0 | Meta-Analysis |
| STAT 461-0 | Advanced Topics in Statistics (Cluster Randomized Experiments) |
Take one of the following qualitative methods courses:
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| ANTHRO 389-0 | Ethnographic Methods and Analysis |
| HDSP 432-0 | Field Methods (Qualitative Research Methods) |
| SOCIOL 403-0 | Field Methods |
| HDSP 430-0 | Economics of Social Policy |
| HDSP 451-0 | Topics in Human Development & Soc Policy (Advanced Qualitative Methods) |
Cognition and Student Learning
Take one of the following courses:
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| LRN_SCI 401-0 | Knowledge Representation for the Learning Sciences (Cognition and Learning) |
| LRN_SCI 403-0 | Foundations of the Learning Science (Cognitive Science Foundations of the Learning Sciences) |
| PSYCH 462-0 | Cognitive Development |
| PSYCH 466-0 | Analogy and Similarity |
Human Development
Take one of the following courses:
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| HDSP 402-0 | Child Development and Social Policy |
| HDSP 404-0 | Adult Development and Aging |
Policy and Social Contexts of Learning
Take two of the following courses:
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| HDSP 451-0 | Topics in Human Development & Soc Policy (Analyzing Educational Policy) |
| HDSP 427-0 | Sociology of Education |
| HDSP 430-0 | Economics of Social Policy |
| SOC_POL 330-0 | Economics of Social Policy |
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Take one of the following courses:
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| SOC_POL 331-0 | Economics of Inequality and Discrimination |
| LRN_SCI 451-0 | Topics in Learning Sciences (Culture, Learning, and Poverty) |
| SESP 351-0 | Special Topics (Analyzing Intersections of Tech, Ethics, Race, and Power) |