Educational Studies Concentration
Coordinator: Professor Deborah Appleman
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
EDUC 240: Philosophies of Education
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)
AMST 115: Growing Up American
EDUC 344: Youth, Culture and Schooling
PSYC 210: Psychology of Learning
PSYC 236: Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision-Making (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
PSYC 250: Developmental Psychology
Cluster II (Schooling in a Diverse Society)
AMST 115: Growing Up American
EDUC 338: Multicultural Education
HIST 220: African American History I
HIST 221: African American History II
PSYC 384: Psychology of Prejudice
RELG 141: Religion and American Culture II
Cluster III (Education and Inequality)
EDUC 353: Schooling and Opportunity in American Society
POSC 306: Urban Racial and Ethnic Politics (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 308: Poverty and Public Policy
SOAN 220: Class, Power and Inequality in America (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
WMST 220: Politics of Reproduction
Senior Seminar:EDUC 395