Offered by:Integrated Studies in Ed
Degree:Master of Arts

Program Requirement:

The M.A. non-thesis option consists mostly of coursework, and includes two 6 credit projects. This option is suitable for practitioners interested in professional development with a research and theoretical orientation. The project creates an opportunity for students to investigate a particular interest.

Research Project (12 credits)

• EDER 633 Project 1 6 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: Theoretical or practical project to explore and analyze an area of interest relevant to education and society.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Fall, Winter
  • Taken in final semester.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
  • Instructors
    • Hannah R Chestnutt
• EDER 634 Project 2 6 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: Theoretical or practical project to explore and analyze an area of interest relevant to education and society.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Fall, Winter
  • Prerequisite: EDER 633

  • Terms
    • Winter 2025
  • Instructors
    • Hannah R Chestnutt

Required Courses (6 credits)

• EDEM 609 Critical Perspect Ed Theo&Res 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Admin & Policy Studies in Ed: Critical exploration of contemporary issues in educational theory and research, in terms of current scholarship in the field, current educational contexts, and various research paradigms. Educational issues as expressions of social, ethical, political, economic, epistemological and cultural reconfigurations. Students will learn to be critical consumers of educational theories and research.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Fall, Winter
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
  • Instructors
    • Philip S S Howard
• EDEM 690 Research Methods: Theo & Pract 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Admin & Policy Studies in Ed: Overview of the epistemological foundations of a range of research methods, including but not limited to quantitative, philosophical, qualitative, arts-based, and mixed methods. Students will learn techniques to conduct research and to develop a research proposal.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Fall, Winter
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
  • Instructors
    • Heather McPherson

Complementary Courses (15 credits)

• EDEA 555 Applied Theatre 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Arts Education: Exploration of the practices of theatre and drama in non-traditional settings, encompassing theatre practices and process drama that tackle areas of social and cultural policy such as public health, education, housing and social welfare.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
• EDEA 655 Arts-Based Eductnl Research 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Arts Education: Forms of thinking and portraying that emanate from the arts: music, dance, drama, visual art, poetry, which provide an aesthetically-oriented lens from which to examine perspectives and premises that influence educational practice, and to develop processes that use one or more of the arts.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
  • Instructors
    • Mindy R Carter
• EDEC 602 Foundations in Curriculum 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Curriculum and Instruction: This course introduces the field of curriculum studies, including a historical approach to the discourses, debates and issues that have shaped it. Students will actively explore relationships between curriculum theory and professional as well as pedagogical practice.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Fall

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
• EDEC 606 Self-Stdy,Autoeth,&Autobcl Res 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Curriculum and Instruction: Critical and ethical engagement with the relationship between self and other through various auto/biographical approaches to research in education, such as self-study, autoethnography, currere, life writing, artistic practices, writing the self, and memory-work. Exploration of various forms of writing, representation, analysis and critical discussion

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
  • Instructors
    • Teresa Strong
• EDEC 612 Digital Media and Learning 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Curriculum and Instruction: This course addresses emerging theories, pedagogies, and practices related to youth learning through digital media and online participatory cultures. Through direct engagement with multiple forms of digital media and youth, students will consider implications for teaching and learning within and beyond schools.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Fall
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
  • Please note: students taking this course as part of a Teacher Education Program leading to certification will also integrate e-portfolios.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
    • Winter 2025
  • Instructors
    • Aron L Rosenberg
    • Michael B Lipset
• EDEC 617 Special Topics in Ed Studies 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Curriculum and Instruction: Explores important current issues in the field of Educational Studies. (Content varies from year to year).

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Winter

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
    • Winter 2025
  • Instructors
    • Philip S S Howard
    • Janine E Metallic
• EDEC 620 Meanings of Literacy 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Curriculum and Instruction: Investigation of basic issues related to definitions of literacy. Issues include new directions in literacy and education, the need for non-print literacies in contemporary life, and the challenges these changes present for educators.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Winter
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EDEM 620.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
  • Instructors
    • Aron L Rosenberg
• EDEC 627 Critical Discourse Stud in Ed 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Curriculum and Instruction: Examines critical theories of and approaches to studying discourse, with a focus on the roles of discourse as social and ideological practice in (re-)producing, questioning or challenging power relations, subject positions and established social orders. Emphasis is placed on theory and practice of discourse studies in educational contexts.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
  • Instructors
    • Stephen Peters
• EDEC 628 Lit-Multiling/Multicult Settgs 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Curriculum and Instruction: This course examines the teaching of literacy in a range of multilingual and multicultural settings in schooling and society, primarily from the sociocultural perspectives of self and group identity as well as empowerment within majority-minority group relations.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Fall

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
  • Instructors
    • Amir Kalan
• EDEC 635 Research Writing 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Curriculum and Instruction: The course offers a research-led introduction to processes and practices of research writing. Working to develop their research writing projects, students learn to examine, critically reflect on, and participate in the research writing practices in their fields, guided by current research on the discursive construction of knowledge.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Fall, Winter

  • Terms
    • Winter 2025
  • Instructors
    • Stephen Peters
• EDEC 650 Critical Race Studies & Educ 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Curriculum and Instruction: Investigates the relationships among race, racialization, and education. Defines education as the processes through which we claim identities, make knowledge claims, and how we learn to take action in the world. Concerned with 1) how we come to know and produce knowledge through race, 2) the pedagogical processes that normalize racial inequity; and 3) the impact of racializing knowledge and structures for variously racialized persons in educational settings. Surveys a range of intersectional critical race theoretical frameworks particularly in Canada. Relevant for developing a critically-engaged educational practice, for whom race, racialization, and social justice are central concerns.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
• EDEM 655 Indigenous Res Methodologies 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Admin & Policy Studies in Ed: Explores theoretical and methodological foundations of Indigenous research. Pays special attention to research positionality as seen through the lenses of settler colonialism and Indigeneity. Highlights importance of Indigenous-led research and decolonizing methodologies. Considers various dimensions of Indigenous research including relationality, responsibility, respect, and reflexivity. Examines the process of decolonizing research by centering Indigenous knowledges, languages, cultures, histories, and identities.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Not open to students who have taken EDEC 617 when topic was "Decolonizing and Indigenous Research Methodologies".

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
• EDEM 679 Spec Top 3 in Ed Leadership 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Admin & Policy Studies in Ed: Selected topics in educational leadership.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
• EDEM 688 Critcl&Partcptry Resrch Mthds 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Admin & Policy Studies in Ed: Exploration of several critical and participatory research methodologies (such as Black radical, feminist and activist ethnography) to understand their implications for study methods (framing research questions, data collection and analysis).

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • Winter 2025
  • Instructors
    • Philip S S Howard
• EDER 600 Globalization, Educ. & Change 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: The impact of globalization on educational institutions, processes and practices. Topics may include the politics of change, teachers' work, educational reform, technology, environment, educational management and leadership.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • Winter 2025
  • Instructors
    • Steve Jordan
• EDER 606 Philosophy of Moral Education 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: A study of principles underlying contemporary moral education such as what constitutes moral values and judgments, normative basis for morality, and differing foundations employed in determining moral norms.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
  • Instructors
    • Helal H Dhali
• EDER 607 Ethics and Values in Education 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: Considers education as a concept and practice influenced by values (ethical, religious, aesthetic, cultural, political, etc.). Includes a critical examination of selected approaches to values education.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • Winter 2025
  • Instructors
    • Kevin McDonough
• EDER 608 Educ Implic of Social Theory 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: An analysis of some of the educational implications of various social and political theories: liberalism, Marxism and others.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Fall

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
• EDER 609 Educ. & Philosophical Thought 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: An analysis of the educational implications of various philosophical positions concerning the nature of reality and the nature of knowledge.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Fall
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
  • Although this course follows a Monday class schedule pattern, there will be an online class on Fridays May 17 and June 21st.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
    • Winter 2025
  • Instructors
    • Kevin McDonough
• EDER 614 Sociology of Education 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: Social context of schooling, including education and social stratification and socialization processes within and outside schools.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Winter

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
• EDER 615 Intro to PhilosophyofEducation 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: Explores questions, aims, debates and modes of inquiry that characterize philosophical approaches to studying educational questions. Introduces philosophy of education as a distinctive field of educational research and may focus on figures or themes of contemporary interest.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Winter

  • Terms
    • Winter 2025
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
• EDER 617 Aesthetics and Education 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: An examination and critical analysis of selected readings on the topic of aesthetics, with specific reference to their application to educational practice.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Fall

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
• EDER 622 Studies in Comparative Educ 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: Comparative study of the economic, political and social aspects of education systems.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
• EDER 625 Special Topics in Ed Studies 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: Explores important current issues in the field of Educational Studies. (Content varies from year to year.)

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
• EDER 626 Theory&Praxis of Cult&Citzshp 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: Study and critique of contemporary ethics and cultural education models with a specific emphasis on Quebec鈥檚 Culture and Citizenship program. Introduction to a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives on the roles culture and citizenship play starting from our personal lives to the classroom.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
  • Instructors
    • SABRINA N JAFRALIE
• EDER 643 Women, Education&Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: This course will trace the major theoretical developments in women and development and relate them to educational issues in the formal, non-formal and informal settings. There will be an emphasis on the significance and policy implications of women's education for sustainable developments in the countries of the South.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
• EDER 649 Educ:Multicultural Societies 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: Majority-minority relations and their implications for educational policy and practice.

  Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year

Elective Courses (12 credits)

12 credits at the 500 level or higher. An elective course can be any course in DISE. If the course is outside of the department, the student should consult with the Program Director or Coordinator prior to registering for the course. A maximum of 6 credits outside DISE is permitted.