EDU 180 - Introduction to Teaching

Approval Status

Under Review

Date Reviewed

May 2025

Designed to encourage students to think about teaching in new ways. Assumptions about teaching and schooling are examined as well as considering what it takes to teach so that children learn and understand. Not a course in how to teach, but an opportunity to reconsider what teaching should try to accomplish and what kinds of learning teachers should foster. Practicum in the schools of 30 hours per quarter required.

Requirements 

Prerequisite(s): Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; and EDUC 60. Enrollment is restricted to education, democracy and justice majors, science education majors, STEM education minors, and education minors, or by permission of instructor.

Course Type

Upper Division