Education Studies Minor
The minor in Education Studies allows students to tailor an 18 credit program to their unique interests, which may include a future in P-12 schooling, higher education, community-based learning initiatives, or other careers where an awareness of education-related issues is crucial.
The sequence includes core courses in educational psychology and the social and cultural foundations of education. Working closely with an advisor from the Education Department, students select at least 11 credits of additional coursework from approved options to fulfill the minor. These options are designed to help a student, with the advisor’s counsel, to create a meaningful course sequence that will help fulfill the student’s academic or pre-professional goals. The program concludes with a Capstone experience in the senior year, during which students synthesize key understandings from across their programmatic curriculum
In keeping with the mission and vision of the Education Department of Ithaca College, a focus on education as a vehicle for social justice will be emphasized across the program.
Minor Requirements
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CORE COURSES | ||
| All students in the minor are required to complete the following three core courses, worth a total of 7 credits. | ||
| EDUC 21010 | Educational Psychology | 3 |
| EDUC 34000 | Social and Cultural Foundations of Education | 3 |
| EDUC 49600 | Capstone Seminar in Education Studies | 1 |
| RESTRICTED ELECTIVES | ||
| Students select a minimum of 11 credits from the following courses (note: some courses may have additional prerequisites): | 11 | |
| Human Variation: "Race," Biology, and Culture | ||
| Business & Professional Comm | ||
| Education, Oppression, and Liberation | ||
| Reading Foundations | ||
| Education and Society | ||
| Introduction to Pedagogy and Practice | ||
| Early Field Experience: Theory and Practice | ||
| Issues in Elementary Education | ||
| Second Language Acquisition: Its Nature and Meaning for Educators | ||
| Educating Students with Special Needs in Diverse Classrooms | ||
| Research Project in Education (No more than 3 credits of this course may be counted towards the minor) | ||
EDUC 290xx | Special Topics in Education | |
| Culture and Community in Education and Teaching | ||
| Fieldwork in Education | ||
| Studies in Young Adult and Children’s Literature | ||
| Teaching Literature in Middle School and High School | ||
| War, Hunger, and Genocide: An International Health Perspective | ||
| Numbers in Education | ||
| Mathematics for Childhood Education | ||
| Difference and Community | ||
| The Holocaust | ||
| Crossing Borders/Global Migration | ||
| Introduction to Developmental Psychology | ||
| Youth and Youth Cultures | ||
| Introduction to Social Institutions and Organizations | ||
| Instructional Design | ||
| Queer Studies | ||
| Total Credits | 18 | |