Minoring

For complete information about minoring, see the online catalog.

Required Courses

• ED 205 Education in a Complex World
• ED 446 Reimagining Teaching/Learning (prerequisite: ED 205)

Electives

At least 16 semester credits drawn from the following list of approved electives. No more than 8 of these credits can be from the same department.

The electives are listed in descriptive sub-themes as a way to help students see how different courses apply or prepare them for a career in education.

Cognition, learning, and child development

• PSY 220 Think/Memory/Problem Solving (prerequisite: PSY 100)
• PSY 230 Infant & Child Development (prerequisite: PSY 100)
• PSY 260 Social Psychology (prerequisite: PSY 100)
• Bio 252/PSY 252 Introduction to Neuroscience (prerequisites: BIO 110, PSY 100)

Communication and discourse

• PHIL 203 Philosophy of Art and Beauty
• RHMS 360 Digital Media and Society
• RHMS 210 Public Discourse or RHMS 211 Professional Discourse
• RHMS 321 Argument and Social Justice (Prerequisites: RHMS 100 or RHMS 221)
• WLL 270 Developing Personal Leadership and Intercultural Capacity

Cultures and contexts for contemporary US education

• ECON 265 Pacific Northwest Policy Issues (prerequisite: ECON 100)
• ENG 209 Intro to American Literature
• ENG 326 African American Literature
• ETHS 200 Introduction to Ethnic Studies
• GEND 200 Gender/Sexuality in U.S. Society
• HIST 135 The US in the 20th Century
• HIST 232 Histories of Indigenous Peoples in North America (Turtle Island)
• HIST 243 African American History Since 1863
• LALS 200 Latin American and Latino Cultural Studies (prerequisite: SPAN 301)
• MUS 107 Music in the United States
• MUS 142 Music and Social Justice
• PHIL 103 Ethics
• RELS 102 Food and Religion in America
• RELS 254 Religion in Modern America, 1865 to Present
• SOAN 100 Introduction to Sociology OR SOAN 110: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• SOAN 225 Race/Ethnicity in Global Perspective (prerequisites: SOAN 100 or SOAN 110)
• SOAN 331 Power, Privilege, and Inequality (prerequisites: SOAN 100 or 110; two 200-level sociology/anthropology courses)
• TH 285 Playing at the Border
• TH 382 American Drama - Performing Identities (prerequisites: TH 283, ENG 209, or GEND 200)
• Inside-Out courses (any, choose one)—offered every term