Global & International Education
Courses
EDGI 506 Comparative Higher Education Systems 3.0 Credits
Examination of higher education systems around the world including the cultural and historical bases of these systems and their spread across the globe.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
EDGI 510 Culture, Society & Education in Comparative Perspective 3.0 Credits
Exploration of global education through concepts of culture, cultural relativism and ethnocentrism from a comparative perspective.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
EDGI 518 Analysis of Policy Issues in Global & International Education 3.0 Credits
Analysis of current public policy issues using various models of policy analysis across cultures and the globe with specific emphasis in creating, monitoring and evaluating frameworks to guide education sector policy work.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
EDGI 520 Political Economy of Education Reform 3.0 Credits
Focus on the principal issues in the economics of education and in education and economic development.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
EDGI 522 Education for Global Citizenship, Sustainability, and Social Justice 3.0 Credits
Through the theoretical lens of global citizenship, the course investigates the role that education plays in sustainable development and examines the ways individuals, communities, organizations, businesses, and educational institutions are responding to the complex intersection of the local and global in the 21st Century. Students critically explore and evaluate educational approaches to global citizenship in the areas of sustainability and social justice. Students examine educational policies and responses relating to citizenship and sustainability, and develop the capacity to conceptualize global issues through global citizenship. In the end, students investigate the interplay of global citizenship, policy, and teacher education in response to global climate change and mass population migration.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
EDGI 524 Measuring the World: Education and National Development 3.0 Credits
This course critically examines the role of education as a primary agent of the socio-economic, cultural and technological advancement of nations. In the first part of the course, we familiarize ourselves with development more broadly, and in doing so conceptualize various measures of development progress and review theoretical perspectives often utilized in this work. Next, we consider the linkages between education and national development through the exploration of two country case studies of national development. The course concludes by considering the ways in which investments in health, alternative measures of well-being and development cooperation both promote national development and shape the relationship between education and development.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
EDGI 550 Educating for Peace, Social Justice, and Human Rights 3.0 Credits
This course provides an overview of peace education and human rights education including history, theories, concepts and pedagogy. Peace and human rights education programs are situated within the larger field of global and international education as well as within a context of education for social change. By exploring both theory and practice as well as case studies, research, and lesson plans, students will examine the role of education within formal institutions, non-formal community-based organization and non-governmental organizations in addressing issues of violence, conflict, and security while promoting social justice, human rights and peace. Students engage in applied learning activities through the construction of peace education initiatives and curriculum.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
EDGI 552 Gender, Education, and International Organizations 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on international organizations, foreign assistance, and their influence on educational policy and practice. We focus our analysis on organizations working at the intersection of gender equality and inclusive education, and particularly the role they play in global policy dialogues to develop a critical perspective of their work. Students examine how various multilateral, bilateral, financial, and civil society organizations work to shape policy, program planning, financing, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of gender equality and education goals that are part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Using a critical perspective, students discover how gender and education activists work to shape their institutions and the development agenda locally and globally.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
EDGI 560 Colloquium in Global Education 1.5 Credit
The multifaceted global issues that face today’s educators and students represent unique opportunities and challenges to develop global, international and intercultural awareness, knowledge and perspective. This course provides a monthly forum for students to engage with Drexel faculty and visiting scholars about these issues, and to promote critical intellectual reflection and exchange between the academy and the broader society.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
EDGI 600 Study Abroad Experience 3.0 Credits
From a city-base in a foreign country, student actively engages in a country's literary, artistic, and cultural traditions through firsthand encounters with literary specialists, authors, artists, and artisans. Homestay model serves as portal for enhanced opportunities for language acquisition, cultural analysis and interpretation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is GIED.
EDGI 604 Quantitative Literacy: Interpreting and reporting data for educational policy and research 3.0 Credits
The course will focus on both the art and science of quantitative methods by identifying how to draw careful insights from quantitative analyses. Students will read & discuss existing educational studies as well as review the results from quantitative analysis with a focus on 1) understanding the analytic approach, 2) interpreting the quantitative results, 3) best practices for visually displaying findings in figures and tables, and 4) using quantitative data to tell a compelling narrative. The course addresses the types of questions that can be addressed through quantitative methods, the importance of samples & describing a sample; summary data, patterns, and trends; the comparison of groups; the results from multiple regression analysis, experimental, and quasi-experimental research.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
EDGI 610 International Ecotourism & Education 3.0 Credits
From a city-base in a foreign country, student integrates the different perspectives of diverse natural, biological and social science disciplines to improve understanding of relationships between human societies and the natural environment.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is GIED.
Corequisite: EDGI 600
EDGI I599 Independent Study in Education: Global & International Education 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
EDGI I699 Independent Study in Education: Global & International Education 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
EDGI I799 Independent Study in Education: Global & International Education 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
EDGI I899 Independent Study in Education: Global & International Education 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
EDGI I999 Independent Study in Education: Global & International Education 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
EDGI T580 Special Topics in Education: Global & International Education 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
EDGI T680 Special Topics in Education: Global & International Education 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
EDGI T780 Special Topics in Education: Global & International Education 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
EDGI T880 Special Topics in Education: Global & International Education 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
EDGI T980 Special Topics in Education: Global & International Education 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit