Director: Professor Deborah Appleman
Educational Studies Concentration (EDUCc)
The Educational Studies Concentration provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study of education as an individual pursuit, an institutional venture, and a societal problem. The concentration aims to develop thoughtful, skillful and imaginative students of the psychology, cultural history, and politics of education. Students will pursue the study of education as both a disabusing and an enabling liberal art, one which reveals the constraints of socialization and informs alternative visions of self and community. The concentration is appropriate for students of all majors interested in the stewardship of teaching and learning.
Requirements for the Concentration
All students will be required to take a minimum of seven courses: three core courses, three supporting courses and a senior seminar.
Core Courses:
EDUC 110 Introduction to Educational Studies
EDUC 234 Educational Psychology
and one of the following three:
EDUC 225 Issues in Urban Education (Not offered in 2010-2011)
EDUC 240 Philosophies of Education (Not offered in 2010-2011)
EDUC 353 Schooling and Opportunity in American Society
Supporting Courses: Select one course from each of the three clusters; these courses must be from three different departments. The courses listed below are suggestions. We can neither control nor predict when courses from other departments are offered. If you have difficulty enrolling in a course for a particular cluster, please see the concentration coordinator to discuss other courses that might fulfill the requirement.
Cluster I (Learning, Cognition and Development)
EDUC 344 Teenage Wasteland: Adolescence and the American High School (Not offered in 2010-2011)
PSYC 210 Psychology of Learning
CGSC 236 Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision-Making (Not offered in 2010-2011)
PSYC 250 Developmental Psychology (Not offered in 2010-2011)
CGSC 380 Seminar in Developmental Psychology: Cognitive Development During the Preschool Years (Not offered in 2010-2011)
CGSC 385 Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood (Not offered in 2010-2011)
CGSC 386 Adolescent Cognitive Development: Developing an Identity and Life Plans
Cluster II (Schooling in a Diverse Society)
EDUC 238 Multicultural Education
EDUC 360 Gender, Sexuality, and Schooling ((Not offered in 2010-2011)
EDUC 365 Democracy, Diversity and Education
HIST 220 African American History I
HIST 221 African American History II ((Not offered in 2010-2011)
PSYC 384 Psychology of Prejudice
RELG 140 Religion and American Culture (Not offered in 2010-2011)
Cluster III (Education and Inequality)
EDUC 225 Issues in Urban Education (Not offered in 2010-2011)
EDUC 340 Race, Immigration and Urban Schools
EDUC 353 Schooling and Opportunity in American Society
POSC 306 How Race Matters in American Politics (Not offered in 2010-2011)
POSC 308 Poverty and Public Policy (Not offered in 2010-2011)
SOAN 220 Class, Power and Inequality in America (Not offered in 2010-2011)
Senior Seminar: EDUC 395 Senior Seminar