The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education offers world-class graduate study opportunities focused on innovative education research and practice with wide-ranging and impactful outcomes. The department works in service of all professional educators at all stages of their careers and offers programs that generate educators, researchers, and leaders who foster research-grounded ideas to improve the human condition across all educational settings.
Enrollment is now open for Spring 2026 graduate courses. The spring semester starts Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, so you must be enrolled in MyRED by Jan. 11, 2026, to avoid late fees. If you have taken a course in the past year at UNL and have not graduated, use the instructions for how to enroll in MyRED. If it has been longer than three semesters or you recently graduated, please email scimath@unl.edu for further instructions.
Check out the following featured TLTE course offerings:
- TEAC 842A: Objectives and Methods of Science Teaching (Elementary)
The overarching goal of the course will be to explore and reflect on multidisciplinary aspects of STEM education and discuss research utilizing theoretical frameworks and current pedagogical strategies relevant to elementary STEM education. Specific course aims include
developing a deeper understanding of multiple perspectives relevant to K-5 STEM education and investigating problems of practice associated with the position of science in STEM. View the course flyer [PDF]. Questions? Contact Deepika Menon at dmenon2@unl.edu. - TEAC 936: Seminar in College Teaching: Developing a Humanizing Learning Centric Praxis
Open to all doctoral students from all disciplinesl; current and future graduate teaching assistants encouraged
Construct your answer to this course's essential question, How will I develop a learning-centric, humanizing praxis in my college teaching? by exploring and applying theories relevant to humanizing praxis (e.g., related to teaching, learning, development, trauma, oppression, complexity, decolonization, abolition, etc.). Course participants will experience learning-centric humanizing praxis as students, examine theory snd empirical research related to learning-centric, humanizing praxis, practice applying ideas through co-teaching and develop full syllabi with teaching plans for implementing learning-cenric, humanixing praxes. View the course flyer [PDF]. Questions? Contact Kara Viesca at kara.viesca@unl.edu. - TEAC 949A: Seminar in Education: Education in a Post-Democratic Era
This doctoral dseminar will be centered around the following inquiry: How does education operate when democracy is no longer the organizing principle of public life, and what does that demand of scholars and teachers? Drawing on political theory, history, and pedagogical practice, we will explore how schools function as technologies of subject formation in illiberal and neoliberal times. Students will examine how propaganda, spectacle and privatization reshape education and will engage with pedagogical frameworks for counter-propaganda, misinformation bypassing and affective resistance. View the course flyer [PDF]. Questions? Contact Mardi Schmeichel at mardi@unl.edu.
- TEAC 801: Curriculum Inquiry
- TEAC 813J: Intercultural Communication
- TEAC 813P: Teaching English as an International Language
- TEAC 861: Education for a Pluralistic Society: Foundation and Issues
- TEAC 882B: Advanced Web Development & Databases
- TEAC 882J: Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Education in K-20
- TEAC 902: Education Policy and Practice
- TEAC 921B: Seminar in Literacy Studies: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Translanguaging
- TEAC 930B: Special Topics in Qualitative and/or Quantitative Research Methods
- TEC 930M: Introduction to Multimodal Textual Analysis
- TEAC 953: Seminar on Writing in the Curriculum