Required Units

Total number of units required for major, excluding any required Intensive(s): 8

Required Intensive units, if any: 1.5

Total units required: 9.5

Total Number of Specific Courses Required

• EDUC 162 - Education and Opportunity in the United States or
• EDUC 235 - Issues in Contemporary Education

• and

• EDUC 384 - Advanced Seminar

Distributional Content Area Units Required

Electives

Two additional electives. These can be additional courses from one of the three clusters listed above, or:

• Course from another department upon approval*
  
• Transferred from another institution upon approval*
• May include up to one unit of graded EDUC Intensives
• May include up to one unit of graded EDUC 0.5 unit courses
• May include up to one unit of graded 100-level courses

* Complete “Request for Outside Department/Institution Credit” form for approval

Intensives

• EDUC 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• EDUC 302 - Senior Thesis/Project
• EDUC 303 - Senior Thesis/Project

Other

After declaration of the major, all courses taken toward the major must be graded (the only exception to this is when credits earned through a Vassar JYA program, such as that in Ireland, are ungraded).

Two 300-level EDUC courses must be completed before, or taken concurrently with, EDUC 302 -303  and EDUC 384 .

A maximum of two units transferred from another institution, including JYA programs, can count toward the major.