In Spring 2023, faculty at Connecticut College approved new program requirements for the major in Educational Studies. These requirements go into effect at the start of the 2023-2024 academic year. All students declaring a major in Educational Studies during the 2023-2024 academic year will be required to complete the new program requirements as listed below.
Any student who declared a major in Educational Studies prior to the start of the 2023-2024 academic year will be held to the major requirements for the catalog year in which they declared. For example, if a student declared a major in Educational Studies in Fall 2022 then the student is held to the requirements in the 2022-2023 academic year catalog. However, students who declared a major in Educational Studies prior to the 2023-2024 academic year may opt to fulfill the new program requirements instead of the requirements for the academic year in which they declared. Talk to your faculty advisor if you wish to switch to the new program requirements.
Requirements for Major in Educational Studies
(Starting 2023-2024 academic year)
Students completing the major in Educational Studies must take at least nine courses or the equivalent of 36 credits in Educational Studies approved coursework. This includes four core courses and at least five approved elective courses or the equivalent of 20 credits of approved coursework.
Required Courses
All majors must take the following four required core courses:
EDU 223: Introduction to Educational Studies (4 credits)
EDU 270: Teaching for Social Justice (4 credits)
EDU 310: History of Education in the U.S. (4 credits)
EDU 312: Critical Educational Theory (4 credits)
Elective Courses
All majors must take at least five approved elective courses or the equivalent of 20 credits of approved coursework. The following courses inside and outside the department are approved to fulfill the elective requirement:
In the Department of Education
EDU 104: Power & Politics in Education
EDU 214: Second Language Acquisition
EDU 224: Theater for Young Audiences
EDU 250: Cities and Schools
EDU 283: Museum Education
EDU 305: Curriculum Studies
EDU 306: Critical Race Theory in Education
EDU 307: Racism and Schooling
EDU 313: Reading for Joy and Justice
EDU 315: Genders, Identities, & Schools
EDU 325: Educational Policy
EDU 330: Diversity & Equity in Higher Education
EDU 340/HMD 340: Educational Psychology
EDU 342: Language and Power
EDU 361: History of Student Activism
In other Departments
HIS 207: Youth/Politics in Middle East
HIS 429: Growing up in Africa
HMD 204: Children’s Learning Environment
HMD 304: Child and Family Social Policy
HMD 307: Adolescent Development
HMD 321: Children and Families in Multicultural Society
HMD 416: Decolonizing Self and Culture
PHI 247: Philosophy of Education
SOC 320: Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence
SOC 430: Child and Adolescent Health
SPA 317: Youth in Spanish America
SPA 325: Teaching & Learning Spanish
SPA 333: U.S. Latino Urban Youth Narratives
SPA 346: Growing up in Latin America
SPA 425: Teaching and Learning Spanish
Questions:
Please email Dr. Isaac Gottesman, Chair, Department of Education: igottesma@conncoll.edu
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Isaac Gottesman
Lenore Tingle Howard '42 Associate Professor of Education, Department Chair
A historian of education, Isaac Gottesman's work focuses on the history of education as an academic field of study and the relationship between education and social struggle. He is the author of The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race (Routledge, 2016), a history of the emergence of critical theories in educational scholarship. Born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, Gottesman joined the faculty at Conn in 2022.
Karen Pezzetti
Assistant Teaching Professor
Dr. Pezzetti’s teaching and scholarship explores identity, literacy, language, equity, and social change in Language Arts classrooms.
Assistant Professor of Education and Africana Studies
People You Might Work With
Isaac Gottesman, Lenore Tingle Howard '42 Associate Professor of Education
B.S., University of Oregon; M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, M.Ed., University of Oregon; Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle
History of Education, Ideas, and Left Movements in the U.S., 1945- Present; Critical Theories of Education; History of Education as an Academic Field of Study
Karen Pezzetti, Assistant Teaching Professor
B.A., Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley; Teaching Certificates in English, Social Studies, and Physical Education, University of California at Berkeley, M.A., Multicultural Urban Secondary English Education, University of California at Berkeley; Ph.D., Urban Education, Temple University
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Secondary English Classrooms; Social Foundations in Teacher Education; Multicultural and International Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Anna Scanlon, Academic Department Assistant
Education
Shakita Thomas Kpetay, Assistant Professor of Education and Africana Studies
