Interdisciplinary Concentration
(Non-student-teaching track)

IMPORTANT NOTE: This version of the interdisciplinary concentration was revised in March 2007. Students in the classes of 2008 and 2009 may elect to complete the concentration under the old requirements. The following link will take you to the previous version: Old version

Overview & Requirements

To earn an Interdisciplinary Concentration in Education, students must submit a written application to the Teacher Education Committee. The proposal must specify the courses to be used to satisfy the concentration requirements. Approval of the application is made by the Registrar upon the recommendation of the Teacher Education Committee.

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Students are required to apply a minimum of six courses toward the concentration: two required and four elective.

Required (2 courses)

EDU 121: History of Educational Theory and Practice (taught each semester)
EDU 302: Directed Field Placement (normally taken spring of senior year)

Elective (At least 1 course from the following group)

EDU/PSY 241: Child Development
EDU 242: Educational Psychology and Teaching Exceptionalities (taught each spring)
EDU/PSY 243: Adolescent Development (taught each fall)
PSY 276: Cognitive Psychology

Elective (At least 1 course from the following group)

EDU 100W: Growing up Jim Crow
ENG 100W: School and Society in the Novel
EDU 221: Contemporary Educational Theory and Practice
ENG 231: Young Adult Literature
EDU 240: Reading, ‘Riting, and Race: The Racial Achievement Gap
EDU 250: Multicultural Education
EDU 260: Social Diversity & Inequality in Education
EDU 300: Seminar: Special Topics in Education
EDU 301: Independent Study in Education
EDU/SOC 330: Sociology of Education (taught in alternating falls)

Elective (1 course)

A 300- or 400-level course (other than an independent study) outside the departments of Education and Psychology that would be particularly valuable to students as a teacher. In order to count this course toward the concentration, students must submit an essay to the Chair of the Department of Education, demonstrating an intellectual link between this course and educational studies.

No more than two courses which constitute a student’s major may be applied toward the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Education. A grade of “C” or higher is required in all courses applied toward the concentration.

"Consequently, the most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent. In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason."

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1979),
A Vindication of the Rights of Women

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