Requirements for the Minor/Special Concentration
To participate in the Education Studies track, students must submit an Education Studies Declaration Form by the fall of their junior year. Please visit Declaring the Minor/Special Concentration to learn more.
To complete the Minor (BC) or Special Concentration (CC/GS) in Education Studies, students must complete 20-24 points of coursework, listed below.
EDUCATION STUDIES TRACK REQUIREMENTS |
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A |
Educational Foundations |
EDUC BC 1510 FA/SP |
Educational Foundations (required) |
B |
Educational Electives |
EDUC BC 3030 |
Critical Pedagogies* |
EDUC BC 3032 |
Investigating the Purposes and Aims of Education Policy |
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EDUC BC 3034 |
Families, Communities, and Schools |
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EDUC BC 3040 |
Migration, Globalization, and Education |
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EDUC BC 3042 |
Gender, Sexuality, and Schooling |
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EDUC BC 3044 FA |
Education and Social Change in Comparative Global Contexts |
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EDUC BC 3045 FA |
Complicating Class: Education and the Limits of Equity |
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EDUC BC 3250 |
Education in a Polarized and Unequal Society |
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URBS UN 3310 |
Race, Space, and Urban Schools |
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PHIL UN 2100 |
Philosophy of Education |
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SOCI UN 3225 |
Sociology of Education |
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SOCI UN 3974 |
Sociology of Schools |
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ECON BC 3012 |
Economics of Education |
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PSYC BC 2134 |
Educational Psychology |
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C |
Interdisciplinary Elective |
See list below for possible courses. Please complete the Petition to Count a Course for an Education Requirement to get final approval from your faculty adviser before enrolling in the course. Your final project or paper for the Interdisciplinary Elective course should focus on educational issues and a copy of the project or paper must be submitted to the Education Program Office for inclusion in your student file. |
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D |
Pedagogical Elective |
EDUC BC 3030 |
Critical Pedagogies* |
EDUC BC 3052 | Inclusive Approaches to Teaching Literacy: Theory and Practice | ||
EDUC BC 3050 |
Science in the City I |
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EDUC BC 3052 |
Math and the City |
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EDUC BC 3055 |
Arts & Humanities in the City |
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EDUC BC 3058 |
Science in the City II |
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E |
Capstone |
EDUC BC 3051 FA/SP |
Seminar in Urban Education (taken in the fall or spring semester of your junior or senior year) |
NOTE: Courses taken for the Education Studies minor/special concentration may not be counted for the major or another minor/special concentration. For example, a student majoring in Sociology and including Sociology of Education for the major would enroll in another Educational Foundations course to complete the Education Studies requirement. *EDUC BC 3030 Critical Pedagogies can count towards the Education Electives or the Pedagogical Elective requirement in Spring 2021 only. |
Courses that fulfill Requirement C - Interdisciplinary Elective
Africana Studies (Barnard)
AFRS BC 3528 Harlem on My Mind: The Political Economy of Harlem
AFRS BC 3020 Harlem Crossroads
American Studies
AMST UN 3930 (Sec. 003) Topics in American Studies: Equity in American Higher Education
AMST UN 3931 (Sec. 002) Topics in American Studies: Race, Poverty, and American Criminal Justice
Anthropology
ANTH UN 3660 Gender, Culture, and Human Rights
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
CSER UN 3928 Colonization/Decolonization
Economics
ECON BC 3011 Inequality and Poverty
ECON GU 4438 Economics of Race in the U.S.
History (Barnard)
HIST BC 3408 Emerging Cities: 19th Century Urban History of the Americas and Europe
HIST BC 4444 Freedom Dreams: Struggles for Justice in the U.S. and Beyond
HIST BC 4543 Higher Learning in America
Human Rights
HRTS UN 3001 Introduction to Human Rights
Political Science
POLS UN 3245 Race and Ethnicity In American Politics
POLS UN 3313 American Urban Politics
Psychology (Barnard)
PSYC BC 3363 Pedagogy for Higher Education in Psychology
PSYC BC 3382 Adolescent Psychology
Sociology
SOCI UN 2420 Race and Place in Urban America
SOCI UN 3217 Law and Society
SOCI UN 3235 Social Movements: Collective Action
SOCI UN 3302 Sociology of Gender
SOCI BC 3913 Inequalities: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Law and Society
SOCI W 3923 Adolescent Society
Urban Studies (Barnard)
URBS UN 3420 Introduction to Urban Sociology
Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies (Barnard)
WMST BC 3131 Women and Science
To complete the Minor (BC) or Special Concentration (CC/GS) in Education Studies, students must complete 20-24 points of coursework, listed below.
EDUCATION STUDIES TRACK REQUIREMENTS |
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A |
Educational Foundations |
EDUC BC 1510 FA/SP |
Educational Foundations (required) |
B |
Educational Electives |
EDUC BC 3030 |
Critical Pedagogies* |
EDUC BC 3032 |
Investigating the Purposes and Aims of Education Policy |
||
EDUC BC 3034 |
Families, Communities, and Schools | ||
EDUC BC 3040 |
Migration, Globalization, and Education |
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EDUC BC 3042 |
Gender, Sexuality, and Schooling |
||
EDUC BC 3044 FA |
Education and Social Change in Comparative Global Contexts |
||
EDUC BC 3045 FA |
Complicating Class: Education and the Limits of Equity | ||
EDUC BC 3250 |
Education in a Polarized and Unequal Society | ||
URBS UN 3310 |
Race, Space, and Urban Schools | ||
AMST UN 3930 (Sec. 002) |
Topics in American Studies: Race, Poverty, and American Criminal Justice |
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AMST UN 3930 (Sec. 003) |
Topics in American Studies: Equity in American Higher Education |
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CSER UN 3928 |
Colonization/Decolonization |
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ECON BC 3012 |
Economics of Education |
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PHIL UN 2100 |
Philosophy of Education |
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PSYC BC 2134 |
Educational Psychology |
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PSYC BC 3363 |
Pedagogy for Higher Education in Psychology |
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PSYC BC 3382 |
Adolescent Psychology |
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SOCI UN 3225 |
Sociology of Education |
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SOCI W 3923 |
Adolescent Society |
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SOCI UN 3974 |
Sociology of Schools |
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C |
Pedagogical Elective |
EDUC BC 3030 |
Critical Pedagogies* |
EDUC BC 3052 |
Inclusive Approaches to Teaching Literacy: Theory and Practice |
||
EDUC BC 3050 |
Science in the City I |
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EDUC BC 3052 |
Math and the City |
||
EDUC BC 3055 |
Arts & Humanities in the City |
||
EDUC BC 3058 |
Science in the City II |
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D |
Capstone |
EDUC BC 3051 FA/SP |
Seminar in Urban Education (taken in the fall or spring semester of your junior or senior year) |
NOTE: Courses taken for the Education Studies minor/special concentration may not be counted for the major or another minor/special concentration. For example, a student majoring in Sociology and including Sociology of Education for the major would enroll in another Educational Foundations course to complete the Education Studies requirement. * EDUC BC 3030 Critical Pedagogies can count towards the Education Electives or the Pedagogical Elective requirement in Spring 2021 only. |