Center for STEM Education
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We offer multiple graduate-level classes that can support students in a wide variety of content-area STEM disciplines, but also educational practitioners and researchers at meeting times that won’t interfere with your evening plans.
The Center for STEM Education is program that provides a supportive educational atmosphere that helps graduate students from all disciplinary backgrounds grapple with big interdisciplinary questions in education, STEM, and society, while also putting big ideas into action.
Our Upcoming Coursework
SME 650 (Informal STEM Education) –Summer 2023
- Time: Arranged
- Format: Field Component & Synchronous Online Chat with Drs. Maria Wallace, Rachel Gisewhite, & Julie Cwikla
- Description: Informal learning environments such as museums, makerspaces, aquariums, zoos, national and state parks all provide unique spaces for learning for all ages. The course will explore ways to design, capture, and investigate meaningful STEM learning opportunities outside the classroom.
- Contact: julie.cwiklaFREEMississippi
SME 652 (Critical Histories of STEM Education) – Fall 2023
- Time: Wednesdays 3:30-5:00 p.m.
- Format: Hybrid HBG Synchronous Chat with Dr. Maria Wallace
- Description: This course takes a deep dive into the underlying structural inequities that restrict access to STEM for all in the U.S. By mapping the social, cultural, and political contexts surrounding STEM education, we will uncover the multiple factors that shape the STEM field as we know it today.
- Contact: maria.wallaceFREEMississippi
SME 703 (Foundations of Science & Math Education) – Fall 2023
- Time: Tuesdays 3:30-5:00 p.m.
- Format: Hybrid HBG Synchronous Chat with Dr. Maria Wallace
- Description: Study of philosophical premises related to the nature of science and mathematics and psychological and pedagogical theories.
- Contact: maria.wallaceFREEMississippi
SME 761 – Qualitative Educational Research Design – Fall 2023
- Time: Mondays 3:30-5:00 p.m.
- Format: Hybrid GC Synchronous Chat with Dr. Rachel Gisewhite
- Description: An overview of qualitative research methods in the design of a qualitative research project to address education-specific questions.
- Contact: Rachel.gisewhiteFREEMississippi
SME 691 – Action Research in Education – Fall 2023
- Time: Thursdays 3:30-5:00 p.m.
- Format: Hybrid HBG Synchronous Chat with Drs. Allison Downing & Kendrick Burford
- Description: This course will introduce action research as a method with various techniques to use in diverse educational endeavors.
- Contact: Allison.downingFREEMississippi%20or Kendrick.BurfordFREEMississippi
SME 792 – Quantitative Research Methods I – Fall 2023
- Time: Mondays 3:30-5:00 p.m.
- Format: Hybrid GC Synchronous Chat with Dr. Kendrick Buford
- Description: This course will provide concepts and applications of descriptive and inferential statistical methods in STEM Education.
- Contact: Kendrick.BufordFREEMississippi%20%C2%A0%C2%A0
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