The Minor

Required courses
EDC 235 Child and Adolescent Growth and Development
EDC 238 Educational Psychology

Areas of concentration: four courses from an area of concentration. Courses accompanied by an (e) on the following list are electives. The specific courses taken by a student are worked out with a faculty adviser.

Special Needs

Adviser: Sue Freeman

EDC 239 Counseling Theory and Education (e)
EDC 248 Individuals with Disabilities
EDC 249 Children With Hearing Loss (e)
EDC 347 Individual Differences Among Learners (e)
EDC 350 Learning Disabilities (e)

Child Development/Early Childhood

Adviser: Janice Gatty

EDC 231 Foundations and Issues of Early Childhood Education
EDC 341 The Child in Modern Society (e)
EDC 345d Elementary Curriculum and Methods (e)
EDC 347 Individual Differences Among Learners (e)

Learning and Instruction

Advisers: Sam Intrator, Rosetta Cohen, Al Rudnitsky

EDC 232 The American Middle School and High School (e)
EDC 333 Information Technology and Learning (e)
EDC 338 Children Learning to Read (e)
EDC 343 Multicultural Education (e)
EDC 345d Elementary Curriculum and Methods (e)
EDC 356 Curriculum Principles and Design (e)
EDC 540 Critical Thinking and Research in Education (e)
EDC 554 Cognition and Instruction (e)

Middle School or High School

Advisers: Rosetta Cohen, Sam Intrator, Lucy Mule

EDC 232 The American Middle School and High School
EDC 342 Growing Up American
EDC 346 Clinical Internship in Teaching
EDC 347 Individual Differences Among Learners (e)
EDC 352 Methods of Instruction
One course from Historical and Philosophical Foundations or Sociological and Cultural Foundations

Education Studies

Advisers: Sam Intrator, Lucy Mule

This minor does not require EDC 235 and EDC 238.

Six courses from:
EDC 200 Education in the City
EDC 210 Literacy in Cross-Cultural Perspective (e)
EDC 222 Philosophy of Education
EDC 232 The American Middle School and High School
EDC 234 Modern Problems of Education
EDC 236 American Education
EDC 237 Comparative Education
EDC 336 Seminar in American Education
EDC 342 Growing Up American
EDC 343 Multicultural Education (e)

Student-Initiated Minor

Requirement: The approval of a faculty adviser, and permission from the members of the department in the form of a majority vote.

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