Education Studies Minor
David Hildreth, Department of Education
The education studies minor helps students achieve knowledge and abilities important to citizens and parents, policy-makers in the work place and creators of learning/teaching activities. Students develop habits of mind valuable in many professions and areas of responsibility. Through the minor students are able to explore the possibility of education as a profession and bring closure to that work without commitment to licensure. Most importantly, they create a reflective framework for their own education.
Examples of possible directions for an education studies minor: A history major interested in museum education would take the minor and do the final internship in a museum, either here or abroad. A science major interested in environmental education would take the minor and do her/his final internship in an environmental education center, here or abroad.
The minor in education studies is not available to education studies majors.
Minor Requirements
The minor requires a minimum of 16 credit hours (four courses).
- EDUC 201 Education Inquiry: First Tutorial – 4 credits
- EDUC 202 Education Inquiry: Second Tutorial – 4 credits
- EDUC 203 Contemporary/Historical Issues in Education – 4 credits
- EDUC 302 Field Study in Cross-Cultural Education in United States – 4 credits
Total credit hours required for Education Minor – 16 credits
