Carleton College

Educational Studies Concentration

Director: 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 (not offered in 2003-2004) or

      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: Youth, Culture and Schooling

      PSYC 210: Psychology of Learning

      PSYC 236: Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision-Making

      PSYC 250: Developmental Psychology

Cluster II (Schooling in a Diverse Society)

      EDUC 336: History of African American Education (not offered in 2003­2004)

      EDUC 338: Multicultural Education

      HIST 220: African American History I

      HIST 221: African American History II

      PSYC 384: Psychology of Prejudice (not offered in 2003­2004)

Cluster III (Education and Inequality)

      EDUC 353: Schooling and Opportunity in American Society

      POSC 306: Urban Racial and Ethnic Politics (not offered in 2003­2004)

      POSC 308: Poverty and Public Policy

      SOAN 220: Class, Power and Inequality in America

      WGST 396: Politics of Reproduction

Senior Seminar: EDUC 395