Education Studies

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 (For students declaring prior to Spring 2021)
A	Educational Foundations (1 course)	EDUC BC 1510 FA/SP	Educational Foundations (required)
B	Educational Electives (2 courses; 1 course must be an EDUC course)	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
		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
		PHIL UN 2100	Philosophy of Education
		SOCI UN 3225	Sociology of Education
		SOCI UN 3974	Sociology of Schools
		ECON BC 3012	Economics of Education
		PSYC BC 2134	Educational Psychology
C	Interdisciplinary Elective (1 course with advanced approval from Education faculty adviser)	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.
D	Pedagogical Elective (1 course, including 35 fieldwork hours)	EDUC BC 3030	Critical Pedagogies*
		EDUC BC 3052	Inclusive Approaches to Teaching Literacy: Theory and Practice
		EDUC BC 3050	Science in the City I
		EDUC BC 3052	Math and the City
		EDUC BC 3055	Arts & Humanities in the City
		EDUC BC 3058	Science in the City II
E	Capstone (1 course, including at least 35 fieldwork hours)	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 (For students in Spring 2021 and beyond)
A	Educational Foundations (1 course)	EDUC BC 1510 FA/SP	Educational Foundations (required)
B	Educational Electives (3 courses; 1 course must be an EDUC course)	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
		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
		AMST UN 3930 (Sec. 003)	Topics in American Studies: Equity in American Higher Education
		CSER UN 3928	Colonization/Decolonization
		ECON BC 3012	Economics of Education
		PHIL UN 2100	Philosophy of Education
		PSYC BC 2134	Educational Psychology
		PSYC BC 3363	Pedagogy for Higher Education in Psychology
		PSYC BC 3382	Adolescent Psychology
		SOCI UN 3225	Sociology of Education
		SOCI W 3923	Adolescent Society
		SOCI UN 3974	Sociology of Schools
C	Pedagogical Elective (1 course, including 35 fieldwork hours)	EDUC BC 3030	Critical Pedagogies*
		EDUC BC 3052	Inclusive Approaches to Teaching Literacy: Theory and Practice
		EDUC BC 3050	Science in the City I
		EDUC BC 3052	Math and the City
		EDUC BC 3055	Arts & Humanities in the City
		EDUC BC 3058	Science in the City II
D	Capstone (1 course, including at least 35 fieldwork hours)	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.

Requirements for the Minor/Special Concentration

For Students Declaring the Education Studies Minor/Special Concentration Prior to Spring 2021

Courses that fulfill Requirement C - Interdisciplinary Elective

For Students Declaring the Education Studies Minor/Special Concentration in Spring 2021 and Beyond