Education Minor
Graduate College of Education
Dean: Judith Munter
Program Office: BH 505A
Phone: 415-338-1031
Minor in Education
The Minor in Education is designed for students interested in education and exploring teaching as a career. The program will also be useful to students planning other careers working with children and families and/or in their own roles as parents. The minor will provide students with an overview of the field and an opportunity to participate in a K-12 classroom in fieldwork course. The program meets several requirements for admission to a teaching credential program in California.
Minor in Education — 13 - 16 units
Courses are 3 units unless otherwise indicated.
Core Requirements (6 units)
- ISED 585 Cross Cultural Education
- A course chosen with approval of advisor
Diversity (3 - 4 units)
Select one of following or another course on diversity with approval of advisor
- AA S 211 Contemporary Asian Americas
- AA S 320 Chinese in the United States
- AA S 512 Asian American Children's/Adolescent Literature
- AA S 595 Asian American Communities and Public Policy
- AIS 470 American Indian Ethnicity and Identity
- AMST 300 Perspectives on American Culture
- AMST 410 California Culture
- ART 303 The Artist in the 20th-21st Centuries: Cultures in Collision—Cultures in Fusion
- ETHS 260 Ethnic Studies: The African American and Western Racism
- GEOG 455 Geography of Ethnic Communities
- HIST 450 History of California
- SXS 301 Perspectives in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
- HUM 225 Values in American Life
- HUM 450 California Culture
- KIN 457 Culture, Gender, and Movement
- LTNS 211 Latina/o Families Narrative
- LTNS 222 Latina/o Art History
- LTNS 280 Transculturation and Latina/o Communities
- SOC 461 Ethnic Relations: International Comparisons (4)
- SOC 468 Social Aspects of Human Sexuality (4)
- SOC 469 Gender and Society (4)
- COMM 542 Intracultural Communication (4)
- SPED 330 Introduction to Disability
- WGS 551 Queer Literatures and Media
- WGS 554 Gender and Global Migration
- WGS 561 Women, Ethnicity, and Social Movements
- WGS 565 Muslim Feminisms
Field Experience (3 units)
- E ED 645 Directed Experience with Children
- KIN 340 Orientation to Teaching Physical Education
- LTNS 690 Community Fieldwork in Latina/o Studies
- Other fieldwork course that meets Early Field Experience requirement
Electives (1 - 3 units)
