Supplement to:
1995-97 Northwestern Undergraduate Study

School of Education and Social Policy

Note: The Organizational Studies program has been discontinued. The Learning and Organizational Change program has been established for those students interested in exploring how organizations and the individuals within them respond to and implement change through education and organizational redesign. The program addresses forces of change including technology, globalization, and changing demographics by drawing upon innovations in learning sciences and organizational behavior. Students learn ways to increase individual, group and organizational effectiveness, particularly within workplaces and schools.

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Honors

Delete: The three-quarter program begins with registration for 225-C99 Independent Study with the honors project adviser.

Replace with: Fall quarter, students register for 210-C98 Honors Thesis.


Academic Programs

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top left hand side, sixth line down, sentence should read: The programs are especially appropriate for those seeking careers in management, consulting, clinical psychology, social work, counseling, law, public service, human resources, and public sector management.

Delete ¶ beginning with: "The Organizational Studies Program is well suited ..."
Replace with: The Learning and Organizational Change Program is well suited to students who plan careers in management, consulting, training and human resources in profit and not-for-profit organizations. Students combine core course work in learning sciences, organization behavior, psychology and social policy with the necessary work in economics, quantitative methods, communications and technology that will prepare them for careers as organizational leaders and change agents and for graduate study in the social sciences and management.

Intellectual Core
All students must complete the School of Education and Social Policy intellectual core. The core course 210-B05 Undergraduate Proseminar introduces the concepts, research, methods, and faculty from across SESP. Students choose from one of two human development courses to gain a basic understanding of development through a particular cycle of the life span in 225-C01 Human Development: Childhood and Adolescence or 225-C02 Human Development: Adulthood and Aging. They choose one course from the following list which further adds to the understanding of human development and learning: 210-B12 Learning and Understanding: A Cognitive Science Approach, 225-C01 Human Development: Childhood and Adolescence, 225-C02 Human Development: Adulthood and Aging, 225-C12 Development of African-American Children and Families: Theory and Research, 225-C13 Development of African-American Children and Families: Research and Policy, 225-C18 Adult Development and Work Careers, 225-C17 Gender and the Life Course or 225-C19 Family Development in Changing Society. Students must demonstrate theoretical and practical mastery of quantitative and conceptual analysis by completing two research methods courses, 473-B06 Elementary Statistics for Research and 225-C72 Methods of Observing Human Behavior. Students must complete 225-C72 before undertaking the practicum and practicum analysis seminar component of the intellectual core.

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Individually Planned Programs

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Social Policy
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change second paragraph to: Students are required to take the introductory course 225-B01 Introduction to Social Policy and any three of the following four courses: 225-C04 Social Policy and the Human Services, 225-C07 Educational Policy, 225-C11 The Political Economy of Social Policy and 225-C30 Economics of Social Policy.

Psychological Services
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change second paragraph to: Students are required to take the introductory course 230-C01 Introduction to Counseling and any three of the following four courses: 225-C04 Social Policy and the Human Services, 230-C02 Human Personality, 230-C03 Intervention Strategies and 230-C11 Group Dynamics.

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Learning and Organizational Change
The Learning and Organizational Change Program is an innovative concentration which embodies technology, internationalization, changing demographics, and new discoveries about effective learning and organizational behavior in order to teach students ways to increase effectiveness within organizations.

Required concentration courses include 210-B11 Introduction to Organizational Theory and Practice, 210-C01 Learning in Context, 210-C02 Education and Work, 210-C06 Studies in Organizational Change, and 210-C10 Learning Organizations for Complex Environments. The remaining units are composed of other required courses and electives approved by the student's adviser, to complete the 45 unit degree requirement. Students planning to do graduate work in management are encouraged to take at least three courses in economics, including Economics C11 Microeconomics. At least eight of the concentration courses must be at the C level.

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Professional Core

Change 236-B41 Methods and Techniques of Teaching at the Secondary Level to 236-C41 Teaching and Learning in Social/Cultural Contexts

Change Tutorial in Education: Co-teaching to Methods & Techniques: [subject area]

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Art

Related courses: six courses related to art in one CAS department are recommended.

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Math

Related courses: four related courses taken in one department other than mathematics recommended.

Sociology

16 course units

Introductory: two A or B-level sociology courses

Theory and methods courses: 471-B26; C03; C06; one course chosen from C29 or C69

Two C-level sociology courses

U.S. history: four courses

World history: four courses


Learning Sciences

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Courses Primarily for Freshmen and Sophomores

210-B05 Undergraduate Proseminar
delete description and replace with:: Introduces students to the roles of educators, policy makers, business leaders and human service professionals and the methods they use in addressing societal issues. SESP faculty research and themes are explored.

210-B11 Introduction to Organization Theory and Practice
delete description and replace with: Major theories and research explaining organizational behavior at the individual, group and organizational levels are explored and applied through real organizational experiences of students. Special emphasis on the role of learning as it interacts with organizational mission, structure and process of motivation and leadership.

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Courses Primarily for Juniors, Seniors, and Graduates

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210-C01 Learning in Context: Cognitive Science Foundations of the Learning Sciences
Cognitive and social science theories of how people learn to understand, reason, and solve problems. Implications for the design of classroom learning environments; learning in real scenarios.

210-C02 Education and Work
Changing nature of work and how this impacts the skills that will be needed for work in the next century. Design of education for teaching skills needed for work in the next century.

210-C06 Studies in Organizational Change delete description and replace with:
Theories and methods of organizational learning and change are examined and applied to change projects in workplace organizations by student teams.

210-C10 Learning Organizations for Complex Environments
Examines major change factors including technology, globalization and demographics, their impact on workplace organizations. Ways organizations are creating and responding to these changes through organizational design, learning systems and human functional changes are explored.


Human Development and Social Policy

Courses Primarily for Juniors, Senior, and Graduates

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225-C05 Law and Social Policy
Explores the influence and use of the legal system on social institutions and policy.

225-C07 Educational Policy
Explores conflicts between offering opportunity to youth and societal imperatives for selecting and preparing youth for future careers. Focuses on how society and schools deal with this conflict, and on various approaches to policy reform.

225-C12 Development of African-American Children and Families: Theory and Research
African-American children and families from a holistic, multi-disciplinary, and developmental perspective. Phases in child and family life cycles linked to ecological factors in the society. Historical-evolutionary approach.

225-C18 Adult Development and Work Careers
Adult development and work careers viewed through the perspectives of three disciplines: psychology, sociology, and organizational behavior. Examines individual career-development strategies and alternative career systems.

225-C30 Economics of Social Policy
How economists think about social policy issues. Examines economic models of household decision-making and how economists account for costs and benefits of public and private programs and decisions.


Counseling Psychology

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Courses Primarily for Juniors, Senior, and Graduates

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230-C02 The Human Personality
Examines different psychological ways to comprehend the whole person in his or her complex societal and historical context. Classic and contemporary approaches to personality, psychology, underscoring both theory and research.

230-C03 Intervention Strategies
Intervention strategies in the areas of human development, education, psychological well-being, and social welfare within a social ecological framework emphasizing long-term change in people and social environments.


Teacher Education

Courses Primarily for Juniors, Seniors, and Graduates

Change 236-B41 Methods and Techniques of Teaching at the Secondary Level to:
236-C41 Teaching and Learning in Social/Cultural Contexts

236-C03 Problems in the Philosophy of Education
Focus of the course is upon classical and modern philosophies of education. Text interpretation, analysis of ideas, and argument construction arestressed as is the relation of philosophy to educational issues. Students are asked to develop a philosophy of education.

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236-C23 Foundations of Reading and Language Acquisition
Emphasizes cognitive foundations of processes in reading comprehension and their influences on methods of instruction and assessment. The inter-relationships among reading processes and language learning and their implications for instruction and assessment are explained.

236-C25 Foundations of Writing Processes (Secondary)
The course explores cognitive and socio-cultural foundations of writing processes and their implications for writing instruction and assessment, includes supervised field experience.

Change the following course titles:

236-C54 Methods and Techniques: Art

236-C55 Methods and Techniques: Foreign Languages

236-C56 Methods and Techniques: English

236-C57 Methods and Techniques: Secondary Mathematics

236-C58 Methods and Techniques: Sciences

236-C59 Methods and Techniques: Social Sciences


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