Overview

Through a range of courses across the curriculum, Education Studies Major students look critically and analytically at educational institutions, practices, and thinking, from early childhood through adulthood, using local, national, and global lenses.

Foundation courses provide a theoretical background on philosophy, history, and psychology of education. Further requirements empower students with the knowledge, tools, and skills for analyzing different aspects of education, on topics such as human development and cognition, pedagogy and curriculum, and sociocultural approaches to the study of education.

Wesleyan University Students complete a methods course relevant to education studies as well as a practicum experience to gain hands-on experience complementing their academic work.

Student Learning Goals

Understanding the foundations of Education Studies including history, theory, and philosophy of key movements and approaches (e.g., formal and informal education; experiential education; privatization movements; canon; relationship between schools and education)
Understanding of, and ability to apply, critiques of educational systems, policies, and practices from the lens of equity, opportunity, power, and transformative justice (e.g., civil rights; global education; gender; race; class; and disability )
Understanding the science and psychology of learning as a framework for examining education

Understanding of the relationship between culture and education, and between different cultures and their education systems (e.g., multiculturalism and multilingualism; globalization; goals of education within a culture or country; comparative studies of education systems, immigrants’ experiences in unfamiliar systems)

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Psychology of Reading

Current Research in Early Childhood

Teaching Music Lessons to Children in Local Schools

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Italian Gaming Lab: Project-Based, Gameful Pedagogy for Language Learning

Astronomical Pedagogy

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-07 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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100

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IELTS

7.5

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Middletown, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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130

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100

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IELTS

7.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

Completed Common Application or Coalition Application
Secondary School Report and official high school transcripts
Counselor Recommendation
Mid-year Grade Report
Two Teacher Evaluations
$55 Application Fee (non-refundable) or Fee Waiver
If you wish to submit your SAT or ACT as proof of English proficiency, you must submit all sections of the SAT or ACT.
A high degree of proficiency in English, as described below, must also be demonstrated.
A strong secondary school preparation in English, social science, science, mathematics, and a foreign language.
Candidates studying at schools outside the US who have taken national examinations for university admission (A levels, French Baccalaureate, ISC, International Baccalaureate, etc.) are expected to have achieved superior results.
Interviews are not required as part of the admissions process, but we encourage prospective students to arrange them if possible.

Tuition Fees

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72438 USD / year

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72438 USD / year

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72438 USD / year

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Living costs

Middletown

United States

1100 - 1600 USD / month

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Student Learning Goals

Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

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Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

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Academic requirements

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Tuition Fees

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Domestic

Living costs

Middletown

Funding

Scholarships Information

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