EDSO - Education and Society Minor
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The Education and Society minor provides an interdisciplinary perspective on both the role of education in society and how societal factors influence learners and learning. The Education and Society minor does not prepare teachers or other school personnel or lead to a program in teacher certification. Rather, it allows students who are interested in understanding the philosophical, political, psychological, and sociological factors that impact learners and learning in the American system of public education to study how humans learn and how society, culture, and politics influence learning. The minor encourages students to view education through a lens of equity and justice and to seek solutions to problems of inequity.
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Requirements for the Minor (20 credits)
I. Required Courses (8 credits)
Complete all of the following:
course - Equity, Justice, and Education in the United States
course - Education Policy and Politics OR EDUC505 - Education Policy & Legal Issues
II. Learners and Learning (4 credits)
Complete 4 credits, selected from the following:
EDUC501 - The Developing Learner
course - Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence
course - Cognition
course - Learning and Behavior
course - Sociology of Childhood and Youth
III. Education in Context (4 credits)
Complete 4 credits, selected from the following:
course - Community Language and Literacy (CBL)
course - Writing across the Curriculum and Peer-to-Peer Mentoring: Theory and Practice
course - Sociology of Education/Pan Af (CBL)
course - Applied Performance: Addressing Sexual Harassment, Violence, and Discrimination through Interactive Performance
course - Theatre in the Community: The Newark Collaboration
EDUC502 - Assessment in Education
EDUC503 - Instructional Design
IV. Diversity and Social Justice Contexts (4 credits)
Complete 4 credits, selected from the following:
EDUC504 - Diversity in Families, Schools, and Communities
course - Intercultural Communication
course - Language, Communication, and Culture OR course - Language, Communication, and Culture
course - Social Policy and Inequality in America
course - Race and Politics
course - Sociology of Inequality
course - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
course - Selected Topics: Language and Social Justice
course - Representations of Self: U.S. Latinx Identities in Literature and Popular Culture
course - Community Based Learning: The U.S. Latino/a Experience
course - Selected Topics: Bilingualism in the Spanish Speaking World
course - Hispanic Studies Seminar
course - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies