Education Studies Minor

Coordinator:
Caryl Schunk

Department of Education Studies

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. They develop habits of mind valuable in most professions and areas of responsibility. Through the minor 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 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).

1.  EDUC 201 Education Inquiry: First Tutorial

4 credits

2.  EDUC 202 Education Inquiry: Second Tutorial

4 credits

3.  EDUC 203 Contemporary/Historical Issues in Education

4 credits

4.  One course from:

4 credits

     EDUC 301 Field Study in Cross-Cultural Education

     EDUC 302 Field Study in Cross-Cultural Education in United States

     EDUC 390 Internship

 

Total credit hours required for education minor

16 credits