Education and Society Courses

Courses (2025-26)

Education and Society courses for the 2025-26 academic year.
Please note: course listings change from year to year.
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EDS260H1S | Equity and Diversity In Education

EDS260H1S
Equity and Diversity In Education
Professor Ken McNeilly
M 1-3

This course focuses on raising awareness and sensitivity to equity and diversity issues facing teachers and students in diverse schools and cultural communities. It builds knowledge of how oppression works and how cultural resources and educational practices may be brought to bear on reducing oppression and improving equity. Restricted to students enrolled in the Education and Society Minor.

Exclusion: VIC260H1, JSV202H1

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EDS261H1F | Child and Adolescent Development in Education

EDS261H1F
Child and Adolescent Development in Education
Professor Katie Doering
T 3-6

This course examines how children and adolescents develop and explores how best to facilitate their growth and learning in the area of education. Major topics include cognitive, emotional, social, moral, physical and language development. Themes addressed include interpersonal relationships such as pro-social and aggressive behaviour, as well as the influence of schooling, family life and culture. This course includes an experiential learning component whereby students will profile a child based on their cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development. Restricted to students enrolled in the Education and Society Minor.

Exclusion: VIC261H1, JSV201H1

Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EDS263H1S | Disability, Inclusion and Education

EDS263H1S
Disability, Inclusion and Education
Professor Katie Doering
T 3-6

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions

EDS265H1F | Introduction to Teaching

EDS265H1F
Introduction to Teaching
Professor Yiola Cleovoulou
M 1-3

This course will explore the foundations of teaching as a professional practice, mainly in the Ontario context. The course focuses on theory and research underlying policies and documents such as the Ontario College of Teachers’ Foundations of Professional Practice and Ministry curriculum. Students will engage in reflexive inquiry about educational practice and policies through class discussions, small group work, case studies and/or independent study. The course will critically examine the relationship between the principles of teaching through moral, ethical and professional practices. Prerequisite: Enrolment in the Education and Society Minor.

Exclusion: VIC265H1, VIC362H1

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EDS355H1S | Social Justice in Education

EDS355H1S
Social Justice in Education
Professor Grase Kim
R 3-5

This course enables students to develop an understanding of historical and contemporary issues relating to social justice in education. The course builds an anti-oppressive praxis for working in diverse educational contexts, from classrooms and schools to state institutions and non-governmental organizations. The course approaches oppression as an outcome of interrelated structures co-constructed by race, ethnicity, disability, gender, sexuality, class, nationality, and age, focusing on the ways in which these intersect and influence one another. Students will develop and apply research skills in the design and implementation of a social action initiative relating to an equity, diversity, or social justice issue.

Requirements: 4.0 credits

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EDS356H1S | Multiliteracies in Education

EDS356H1S
Multiliteracies in Education
Professor Yiola Cleovoulou
T 10-1

This course introduces students to a multiliteracies framework through the pedagogical lens of social justice and diversity. Class participants learn to integrate the multimodalities of literacy in their teaching practice and expand their understanding of 21st-century literacy. Themes include language development, print literacy, digital literacy, critical literacy, visual literacy and multicultural perspectives on literacy.

Recommended Preparation: EDS265H1/ VIC265H1/ VIC362H1

Exclusion: VIC356H1

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EDS357H1F | Education in a Global Context

EDS357H1F
Education in a Global Context
Professor Rie Kijima
R 9-11

This course provides a historical overview and contemporary analysis of perspectives and practices of international education with a focus on international development and policy. Factors that shape the global architecture of education will be explored; these may include theories of globalization, education reform, comparative education, peace education, international schooling and global citizenship education. Students will have the opportunity to analyze education reforms and to address issues related to access and quality of learning. Restricted to students enrolled in the Education and Society Minor.

Recommended Preparation: EDS260H1

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EDS360H1F | Education Internship

EDS360H1F
Education Internship
Professor Ken McNeilly

Students are required to complete an internship in an educational environment. This can be satisfied by participation in an organization with the approval of the Program Coordinator. Written assessment of the internship is required. Restricted to students enrolled in the Education and Society Minor. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

This course is available in three formats, based on the nature of the internship:
EDS360H1F/S - 0.5 credit, completed in the Fall (F) or Winter (S) semester which involves 75 internship hours and additional coursework requirements.
EDS360H1Y - 0.5 credit, completed over two consecutive semesters which involves 75 internship hours and additional coursework requirements
EDS360Y1Y - 1.0 credit, completed over two consecutive semesters which involves 150 internship hours and additional coursework requirements.

International/out-of-province internships are also possible during the spring/summer sessions. Reach out to the Program Coordinator to inquire.

Prerequisite: EDS265H1/ VIC265H1/ VIC362H1
Exclusion: EDS360Y1, VIC360H1, VIC360Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EDS360H1S | Education Internship

EDS360H1S
Education Internship
Professor Ken McNeilly

Students are required to complete an internship in an educational environment. This can be satisfied by participation in an organization with the approval of the Program Coordinator. Written assessment of the internship is required. Restricted to students enrolled in the Education and Society Minor. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

This course is available in three formats, based on the nature of the internship:
EDS360H1F/S - 0.5 credit, completed in the Fall (F) or Winter (S) semester which involves 75 internship hours and additional coursework requirements.
EDS360H1Y - 0.5 credit, completed over two consecutive semesters which involves 75 internship hours and additional coursework requirements
EDS360Y1Y - 1.0 credit, completed over two consecutive semesters which involves 150 internship hours and additional coursework requirements.

International/out-of-province internships are also possible during the spring/summer sessions. Reach out to the Program Coordinator to inquire.

Prerequisite: EDS265H1/ VIC265H1/ VIC362H1
Exclusion: EDS360Y1, VIC360H1, VIC360Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EDS360Y1Y | Education Internship

EDS360Y1Y
Education Internship
Professor Ken McNeilly

Students are required to complete an internship in an educational environment. This can be satisfied by participation in an organization with the approval of the Program Coordinator. Written assessment of the internship is required. Restricted to students enrolled in the Education and Society Minor. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

This course is available in three formats, based on the nature of the internship:
EDS360H1F/S - 0.5 credit, completed in the Fall (F) or Winter (S) semester which involves 75 internship hours and additional coursework requirements.
EDS360H1Y - 0.5 credit, completed over two consecutive semesters which involves 75 internship hours and additional coursework requirements
EDS360Y1Y - 1.0 credit, completed over two consecutive semesters which involves 150 internship hours and additional coursework requirements.

International/out-of-province internships are also possible during the spring/summer sessions. Reach out to the Program Coordinator to inquire.

Prerequisite: EDS265H1/ VIC265H1/ VIC362H1
Exclusion: EDS360Y1, VIC360H1, VIC360Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EDS360H0/Y0 | Education Internship

EDS360H0/Y0
Education Internship
Professor Katie Doering
Day/Time: TBA

EDS368H1F/ LCT305H1F | Special Topics in Education & Society

EDS368H1F/LCT305H1F
Special Topics in Education & Society
Professor Shaun Ross
W 11-1

For roughly a century, the argumentative essay has been the privileged tool for assessing undergraduates in the humanities. In the face of emerging generative AI technologies, anxious instructors have looked to alternative models of evaluation, including oral assignments and tests. In most cases, however, calls for increased orality in the undergraduate curriculum have been largely ad hoc, without much theoretical reflection or awareness of the long history of oral production in higher education. This course will explore modes of oral assessment in dialogue with a cultural history of orality. In addition to providing students a philosophical introduction to the relationship between orality and literacy, it will consider orality in three distinct but connected temporal/geographic contexts: the development of new humanist pedagogies in 15^th- and 16^th-century Europe; the rise of the modern research university in the USA; and in relation to critical interventions from the fields of Black and Indigenous studies. Authors and artists considered will include Plato, Erasmus, Walter J. Ong, Lee Maracle, Ishmael Reed, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Black Thought, among others. Successful participation in this course will not require the composition of an essay, but it will involve verbally-based assessments that include memorization, debate, oral examination, and other modes of oral production.

EDS369H1S | Special Topics in Education & Society: Toward Black Inclusion: Confronting Anti-Black Racism in Education

EDS369H1S
Special Topics in Education & Society: Toward Black Inclusion: Confronting Anti-Black Racism in Education
Professor Julia Forgie
F 11-1

This course explores the roots, realities, and impact of anti-Black racism in Canadian society and education. In the first half, students will examine historical and contemporary forms of systemic oppression, focusing on how anti-Black racism operates in educational contexts. Through the study of Black Canadian histories, voices, and lived experiences, students will deepen their understanding of structural inequities and develop tools to critically analyze and challenge them. The second half of the course emphasizes collective responsibility and transformative action. Students will explore principles of Black inclusion, solidarity, and allyship, with a focus on applying anti-racism strategies in schools, classrooms, and organizational settings. The course equips students to imagine and support institutional change that promotes educational justice, equity, and the flourishing of Black communities.

Prerequisite: Completion of 9.0 credits
Recommended: One 200-level course in Education and Society
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions

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Courses (2025-26)