Education Studies Minor
The Education Studies minor engages students in an interdisciplinary approach to education that could lead to future work or graduate study in areas such as policy-making, curriculum design, childhood development, and education law.
The Education Studies minor is appropriate for students who have a general interest in the study of education as a social phenomenon. Like those in other disciplines, Education Studies courses at Bowdoin are an integral part of the liberal arts. They introduce students to the tradition of education-to its history and philosophy, to its interrelationships with other cultural institutions, to how it both mirrors and changes the society that creates it. Education Studies courses focus on an institution that is a major force in shaping the lives of most Americans. The courses comprising the Education Studies minor address a variety of questions that are of interest to students from other disciplines: school administration and finance are important themes in government and economics; race, class, and gender issues in schooling are also issues of sociology and anthropology; perceptions of childhood and adolescence form the base of many studies in psychology; changing school architecture interests historians and artists.
The Education Studies minor is comprised of:
- Education 20-The Educational Crusade or Education 101-Contemporary American Education
and three of the following:
- Education 202 - Education and Biography
- Education 203 - Educating all Students
- Education 204 - Educational Policy
- Education 205 - High School
- Education 220 - The Stories We Tell: Analyzing Educational Narratives
- Education 235 - American Philosophy of Education
- Education 245 - Education and Social Justice
- Education 250 - Education and Law
- Education 251 - Teaching Writing: Theory and Practice
- Education 310 - The Civic Functions of Higher Education in America