Course list for Education minor

All minors must be completed with a 2.0 minor GPA. Please see an adviser to discuss details.

The Education minor consists of 29 credits.

Education Core (14 Credits)

9 credits

All three courses below are required:

• TEDUC 471 Diversity and Equity in Schools and Curriculum (3)
• TEDUC 482 Schools in American Society (3)
• TEDUC 490 Service Learning Practicum in Education (3) *

5 credits

Select one of the following courses:

• TPSYCH 220 Lifespan Development (or equivalent transfer course) *
• TPSYCH 320 Theories of Child Development (formerly TCSIG 434) (or equivalent) *

Electives (15 credits)

Select one course each from groups A, B, and C:

Group A: Children and Youth (5 credits)

• TCOM 258 Children and Television
• TPSYCH 212 Child and Adolescent Abnormal Psychology
• TPSYCH 230 Educational Psychology
• TPSYCH 321 Adolescent Psychology
• TPSYCH 401 Family Violence

Group B: U.S. History and Diversity(5 credits)

• T ANTH 464 Native American Cultural Areas
• TECON 420 Economics of Education
• T HIST 200 American History I, 1607-1877 *
• T HIST 201 American History II, 1877-present *
• T HIST 220 African American History 1619-1865.
• T HIST 221 African-American History 1865-1945 (formerly African American History: Jim Crow to MLK, Jr.)
• T HIST 222 African-American History 1945-present (formerly TIBCUS 465)
• T HIST 349 Minorities and Higher Education in American History
• T HIST 410 Early American Politics and Law: The American Revolution
• T HIST 416 Life and Thought: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Angela Davis
• T HIST 419 African-American Culture and Consciousness
• T HIST 441 Black Freedom Movement in Perspective
• T HIST 479 Modern European Culture
• T HISP 238 Hispanics in the United States
• TIAS 443 Ethnicity and the Urban Landscape
• TPOL S 201 Introduction to Political Values and Ideas
• TPOL S 251 Cultural Studies
• TSMUS 300 The Making of America*
• T SOC 265 Race and Ethnicity in the United States.
• TURB 360 The African American Urban Experience

Group C: Supporting Courses (5 credits) Art, Science and Writing that support K-8 teaching

Select one course from any of the following areas:

Art History and Studio practice

• T ARTS 240 Landscape in Contemporary Art
• T ARTS 280 3-Dimensional Art and Contemporary Approaches to Sculpture
• T ARTS 281 Art and Culture in India
• T ARTS 282 Art and Culture in China
• T ARTS 283 Art and Culture in Japan
• T ARTS 284 Art and Culture in the Pacific
• T ARTS 311 History of Rock & Roll
• T ARTS 383 South Sound Contemporary Art: Creativity and the Art of Seeing
• T ARTS 386 Contemporary Art and Studio Drawing
• T ARTS 441 History of Jazz
• T ARTS 471 Culture and the Meaning of Visual Arts*
• T HIST 333 Early American Music, Art, Literature, Education, and Theater*
• T HIST 377 Art of the Americas *
• T HIST 470 The Material World: Art and Artifacts
• T HIST 477 Patronage, Religion, and Propaganda in European Art (1590-1750)
• T HIST 478 Revolution, Industrialization, and Modernity in European Art (1780-1900)
• T LIT 242 Studies in English Literature

Science

• T EDUC 495 Environmental Education
• TESC 100 Introduction to Environmental Science*
• TESC 107 Geohazards and Natural Disasters
• TESC 215 Meteorology
• TESC 232 Issues in Biological Conservation
• TESC 236 Plants and People: the Science of Agriculture
• TESC 241 Oceanography*
• TESC 243 Geography of the Physical Environment *
• TESC 247 Maritime History and Science in the Pacific Northwest
• TESC 422 Evolution

Writing

• TWRT 211 Intermediate Academic Writing
• TWRT 331 Advanced Academic Writing
• TWRT 370 Introduction to Writing Poetry
• TWRT 380 Introduction to Creative Writitng: Fiction
• TWRT 387 Writing Creative Non-Fiction
• TWRT 431 Writing for Social Change
• TWRT 464 Teaching Writing

* Indicates courses that fulfill Teacher Certification Program prerequisites.