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Nov 09, 2024
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2024-2025 Academic Catalog
Education Studies Concentration
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Education Studies Concentration
Chair(s):
Deborah Michaels
Faculty:
Education Studies draws on research methods and theories from across the disciplines to investigate the ideologies, institutions, and practices behind learning inside and outside of formal schooling. Education Studies concentrators interrogate their own learning and the formal schooling that we generally take for granted as a mandatory and “natural” dimension of youth. Concentrators will engage with questions as wide-ranging as: What does it mean to be educated? What are the purposes of schooling? By what economic, cultural, and ideological means are educational resources and opportunities afforded particular social groups to the exclusion of others? How are diverse and intersectional identities celebrated or silenced by teaching practices and the institutional structures of schooling? To what degree do schools simply mirror or have the power to transform historical, political, and socio-economic trends? What motivates individuals to learn? What can we learn from schooling across international and historical contexts to improve educational equity for underserved students? How can we educate for environmental stewardship in an age of climate change?
The curriculum for the concentration requires the completion of: EDU 101 Educational Principles in a Pluralistic Society , a class with a school practicum component, additional education electives, coursework exploring social identities and power, and a capstone experience at the 300-level or above that culminates in a major research project grounded in Education Studies.
For information on the Teacher Education Program and Secondary Teacher Licensure please visit their page at the following link: Education, Teacher Education Program, Secondary Teacher Licensure .
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Concentration Requirements: minimum of 22 credits
1. Foundations Course: 4 credits
2. Course with School Practicum: 2-4 credits
3. Social identities and Power: 4 credits
- ANT 225 - Biological Determinism and the Myth of Race 4 credits
- ANT 231 - Disasters, Society and Culture 4 credits
- ANT 285 - Anthropology, Violence, and Human Rights 4 credits
- BIO 220 - Racing Through Genetics 4 credits
- ECN 215 - Labor Economics 4 credits
- ECN 220 - Foundations of Policy Analysis 4 credits or the cross-listed POL 220 or PST 220
- EDU 210 - Historical Perspectives on U.S. Education 4 credits or the cross-listed HIS 210
- EDU 213 - Cultural Politics of Language Teaching 4 credits
- EDU 214 - Critical Literacy for Diverse Learners 4 credits
- EDU 215 - Reading and Writing Youth and Youth Culture 4 credits or the cross-listed ENG 215
- EDU 217 - Comparative and International Education 4 credits
- ENG 225 - Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures 4 credits
- ENG 229 - The Tradition of African American Literature 4 credits
- ENG 230 - English Historical Linguistics 4 credits
- ENG 232 - Traditions of Ethnic American Literature 4 credits
- ENG 273 - Transnational and Postcolonial Feminisms 4 credits
- ENV 251 - Water, Development and the Environment 4 credits or the cross-listed GDS 251
- ENV 261 - Climate Change, Development and the Environment 4 credits or the cross-listed GDS 261
- FRN 342 - Orientalism Revisited 4 credits
- FRN 346 - The Francophone Caribbean World: From Plantation to Emancipation 4 credits
- GLS 251 - Theoretical Approaches to Children’s and Young Adult Literature 4 credits or the cross-listed HUM 251
- GWS 211 - Foundations of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies 4 credits
- GWS 324 - Critical Race Feminisms 4 credits
- HIS 212 - Democracy in America, 1789–1848 4 credits
- HIS 220 - U.S. Environmental History 4 credits
- HIS 221 - Being Muslim in American 4 credits or the cross-listed REL 221
- HIS 222 - Women in American History 4 credits or the cross-listed GWS 222
- HIS 224 - Sex in American History 4 credits
- HIS 225 - Native American History, 1491–1865 4 credits
- HIS 226 - Native American History, 1871 to Present 4 credits
- HIS 227 - African American History 4 credits
- HIS 268 - Islam and Gender 4 credits or the cross-listed REL 268
- LAS 221 - Introduction to U.S. Latinx Studies 4 credits
- PCS 230 - Conflict Analysis 4 credits
- PHE 236 - The Role of Sport in Society 4 credits
- PHI 261 - Philosophy of Race and Gender 4 credits
- POL 257 - Nationalism 4 credits
- POL 259 - Human Rights: Foundations, Challenges, and Choices 4 credits
- PSY 214 - Social Psychology 4 credits
- PSY 233 - Developmental Psychology 4 credits
- PSY 260 - Cognitive Psychology 4 credits
- REL 229 - Violence and Nonviolence 4 credits
- REL 241 - Religion, Law, and Politics 4 credits
- SOC 220 - Sociology of Global Development 4 credits
- SOC 235 - Class, Capital, and Inequality 4 credits
- SOC 240 - Social Movements 4 credits
- SOC 250 - Sociology of Religion 4 credits
- SOC 255 - Sociology of Asian America 4 credits
- SOC 260 - Human Sexuality in the United States 4 credits
- SOC 265 - Sociology of Health and Illness 4 credits
- SOC 275 - Race and Ethnicity in America 4 credits
- SPN 317 - Readings in U.S. Latinx Literature and Culture 4 credits
- SPN 379 - U.S. Latinx Identities and Sexualities 4 credits
- Other courses at the 200-level or above that focus on social identities and power may fulfill this requirement if approved by the concentration advisor and the concentration chair.
4. Education Electives: 6-8 credits
5. Capstone Experience: 2-4 credits
- EDU 397 - Independent Study
- EDU 399 - Directed Research
- EDU 460 - Seminar in Teaching the Young Adult 4 credits *
- EDU 499 - Mentored Advanced Project
- Other courses at the 300-level or above that culminate in a substantial research project with an Education Studies focus may fulfill this requirement if approved by the concentration advisor and the concentration chair.
*Ninth-semester TEP students will be enrolled inn EDU-460 in their post-graduation, ninth semester so they cannot use this course for the concentration. All concentration requirements must be completed prior to graduation.
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