Science Education Minor

eight to fourteen credits in courses addressing preparation:

• COM-101 Public Speaking
• COM-102 Media and Society
• COM-351 Advocacy
• CSC-271 Digital Dilemmas: Data, Technology, and Being Human
• EDU-120 Human Development
• EDU-221 Students with Exceptionalities
• ENG-211 Professional Communication
• ENG-223 Writing Nonfiction
• ENG-298 Literature and the Environment
• PHL-245 Environmental Ethics
• POL-210 Interest Groups and Political Movements
• POL-213 Environmental Policy
• POL-315 Media and Politics
• PSY-211 Childhood and Adolescence
• PSY-213 Adulthood and Aging
• PSY-324 Learning
• REL-248 Religion and the Environment
• REL-361 Religion and Science
• WGS-240 Women in Science

and, two to eight credits focused on teaching experiences:

• BIO-461 Teaching Methods and Materials in Biology
• CHM-461 Teaching Methods and Materials in Chemistry
• EDU-333 Science in Grades PK-6
• EDU-454 Teaching Science in Grades 9-12
• EDU-465 Informal Science Education Practicum
• PHY-461 Teaching Methods and Materials

Further considerations

Students must major in computer science, biology, chemistry, earth and environmental science, sustainability science, neuroscience, or physics.

Only one course can be from the student’s major department.  At least 12-credits must be from non-FYW courses and above the entry level (100).  Only one course can be a May Experience course and only one course can be a FYW. No pass/fail courses options can count toward the concentration.

Potential May X courses include EDU-265: International Perspectives on Public Education (May X-travel study), POL 416 Farm, and EDU-115: Depiction of Schools on Film.

The Interdisciplinary Minor Oversight Committee will continue to review the content of potential FYW courses based on the relevance of those courses to (i) exposing students to how individuals come to understand larger issues through social institutions; and/or (ii) explicitly studying scientific intersections in specific disciplines including philosophy, history or religion. Potential FYWs include FYW-1139: God and Darwin, FYW-1146: Neuroethics, FYW-1120: Medicine, Morality and Culture, FYW 1105: Disease and Culture, and FYW-1127 To Walk the Land.