Education Studies is a major for those who wish to pursue a degree in education, but do not intend to pursue an initial teaching license at this time. Some will want to teach, but not necessarily in a full classroom setting. Others may want to pursue an aspect of education that is not primarily instructional.
Students majoring in Education Studies will take a core group of education classes but will be able to specialize in certain fields by taking the track(s) that best suit their needs. Each of these tracks will allow students to specialize in a field that has professional options that extend in a direction other than state licensure and traditional classroom settings.
Students completing this major can obtain a sub license, but may not be licensed as a “teacher of record.” Completers will be well-positioned to work in camps, churches, museums, schools, and other fields requiring education expertise but not education licensure. Students wishing to pursue a graduate program in educational counseling should also consider majoring in Psychology.
Program Learning Goals. Upon completion of the program students will be able to:
1: Understand the history of education theory and what current education policies and programs are considered advantageous for certain levels of development.
2: Identify how each child is fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of their creator which impacts the way each learner relates to the world around them, including but not limited to the classroom, their classmates, and their teachers.
3: Know how to seek opportunities to advance learning and student well-being in formal and/or informal education spaces specific to the graduate’s chosen track(s) of study.
4: Personalize the departmental “teacher as servant” motto, linking their past educational experiences and future call in education to help “train up a child in the way they should go.”
Return to: