Education Major

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

Distributional Content Area Units Required

One course from Cluster 1– Pedagogy and Learning

One course from Cluster 2 – Domestic Issues in Education

One course from Cluster 3 – Global Perspectives on Education

One course designed to develop students’ skills in conducting research:

AFRS 299 - Research Methods
ANTH 245 - The Ethnographer’s Craft
SOCI 254 - Research Methods
Students may petition the department to count a different research methods course (taken at Vassar College or elsewhere) toward the major. If accepted, this course will not count against the two courses that students are allowed to take outside the major.

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

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.