Required Units

Total number of units required for major: 9.5

Total Number of Specific Courses Required

All Education students have the option of completing a capstone thesis or project during their senior year. Students choosing a capstone project or thesis are required to take *EDUC 302 -303 .

Students not choosing to do a capstone thesis or project must complete an additional 300-level Education course.

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

• and

• EDUC 384 - Advanced Seminar
• *EDUC 302 - Senior Thesis/Project     
• *EDUC 303 - Senior Thesis/Project    

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

and Community-Engaged Unit: EDUC 290  (.5 unit)

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

Intensives

• EDUC 215 - Intersections of Our Homes, Schools, and Communities
• EDUC 251 - Community Organizing and Schools
• EDUC 261 - Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration
• EDUC 264 - Community Schools Research & Practice
• EDUC 283 - Our Lives, Our World: Teaching and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth
• 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.