Florida International University’s College of Education Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and the Center for Urban Education and Innovation in collaboration with Earth Ethics Institute at Miami Dade College have developed and are offering a graduate certificate program. To earn the certificate, complete the courses listed below.

SSE 5381 Developing a Global Perspective (3). Theory, content, and practice. This course provides an introduction and utilization of learning materials and teaching strategies in Global Education.

EDF 5880 – Global Perspectives (3). Explore current world issues; Critically examine differing world views, cultures, and value systems; Learn about human rights and education; Develop curriculum for the classroom - OFFERED IN OCTOBER 2007

EDF 6766 Education, the Environment, and Sustainable Futures (3). This course presents an overview of issues in sustainable development, education, and the modern school. Efforts will be made to explore the roles that education and culture play in environmental degradation.

EDF 6852 Educational Development Issues in Context: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (3).  This course is a critical analysis of educational reforms of the past and the present, drawing on social science research and policy issues in the Third World.

EDF 6689 Urban Education: Defining the Field (3). This course examines the economic, political, social, and spiritual context of urban education. It also investigates educational philosophies that suggest the use of classrooms as vehicles for student and societal liberation and transformation.
OFFERED IN MARCH 2007

EDF 6925 Special Topics in Urban Education: Social Liberation and the Environment (3).  This course examines the critical issues related to ethnicity and culture that face us in contemporary society and how these issues relate to teaching, learning and curriculum reform in multicultural classrooms in urban communities. Through engaging in an on-going dialogue among a variety of stakeholders, new experiments in education, ecology, social justice, economics and politics will be investigated within the context of building community and liberatory practices.

EDF 7937 Advanced Topics in Social Foundations of Education (Sustainable Futures) (3).  This course explores questions and arguments related to environmental issues and schooling.  It examines how schools, from an ecological perspective, can be both part of the problem and the solution in the achievement of “sustainability,” “sustainable development,” or “sustainable futures.”  Topics will engage students in an examination of the role of holistic education in fostering sustainability and envisioning environmental and ecological interpretations of life on Earth and the future of humanity.

Please Note:  Faculty interested in pursuing doctoral degrees in the areas of Higher Education and/or Adult and Human Resource Development, can utilize credits earned in this certificate as part of the course requirements for the doctor of education degree, with approval from the advisor.