Education Studies Concentration
Coordinator:
David Hildreth, Education Studies Department
The Education Studies concentration helps students achieve knowledge and abilities important to citizens and parents, policy-makers in the work place, and creators of learning/teaching activities. They develop habits of mind valuable in most professions and areas of responsibility. Through the concentration they 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 concentrator: A history major interested in museum education would take the concentration and do the final internship in a museum, either here or abroad. A science major interested in environmental education would take the concentration and do her/his final internship in an environmental education center, here or abroad.
The concentration in Education Studies is not available to education studies majors.
Requirements
The concentration consists of 16 credit hours: the first three courses in the major (EDUC 201, 202, 203) and a choice between Field Study in Cross Cultural Education (EDUC 301) or a four-hour internship at the 300 level, designed by the student and an education studies faculty member in consultation with faculty in the student's major. Early courses in the concentration provide ample opportunity for the students to begin identifying questions and issues relating to education while the preparation for, supervision during, and presentation of the field project enable them to refine those questions and issues in light of relevant experiences and study.