photo:
Children's March, June 12, 2000, Havana
Susan
Roberta Katz
Associate
Professor
Teacher
Education
University
of San Francisco
photo:
Children's March, June 12, 2000, Havana
Susan
Roberta Katz
Associate
Professor
Teacher
Education
University
of San Francisco
Susan Roberta Katz's chief research interests include the education of immigrant children, particularly that of Latino adolescents, social and cultural aspects of language and literacy development, and issues of youth and violence. As a former teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District for 10 years, she strongly values the voices of both students and teachers in research. Her doctoral dissertation, "Where the Streets Cross the Classroom: A Study of Latino Students' Perspectives on City Schools and Neighborhood Gangs," was based on a year-long ethnography she conducted in her own middle school classroom. This dissertation won first place in the Outstanding Dissertation Competition of the National Association of Bilingual Education in 1996.After receiving her Ph.D. in Education in Language and Literacy at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education in 1994, Professor Katz was an Assistant Professor of ESL/Writing at the University of New Mexico. In 1995, she was a summer scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California, participating in an institute entitled "Linking Educational Research to Policy and Practice." In 1996, she returned to the San Francisco Bay Area to work at the University of San Francisco in Teacher Education, where she served as Department Chair from 1998-2000. Journal articles written by Professor Katz have appeared in Teachers College Record,Urban Education, Bilingual Research Journal, Social Justice,and Multicultural Education, among others.
Fall 2000
Classes
0708-611-05 Education of Bilingual Children: Theory and Practice
0708-303-02 Education of Bilingual Children: Theory and Practice (Dual Degree)
LOCATION: EDUCATION 101
TIMES: Wednesday, 4:45 - 7:15 pm0708-622-01 Academic Literacy
LOCATION: EDUCATION 40
TIMES: Thursday, 4:30 - 7:00 pm0708-619-01 MA Field Project
LOCATION: EDUCATION 119 (1st meeting only)
TIMES: Tuesday, 4:00-6:15 pm
Office Hours:
EDUCATION 131
Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00 - 4:00 pmContact Information:
Professor Susan Roberta Katz
School of Education
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080Fax: 415-422-2209
Dept. Phone: 415-422-6481