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Educational Psychology Minor Program

Faculty of Education
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Educational psychology makes theoretical and experimental inquiries into how students learn from instruction, how they acquire and express motivation in educational settings, and how they develop skills in school subjects and for learning. This program also studies how this first line of inquiry contributes to designs for instructional experiences that promote a full spectrum of achievements.

The minor consists of required courses that develop a broad background in educational psychology supplemented by electives. For a teaching career, it provides a research based foundation in the psychology of teaching and learning underlying a professional studies program. For others, it articulates applied psychology serving one of our society’s most important aims, education of people of all ages.

Lower Division Requirements

Students complete both of

  • EDUC 220-3 Introduction to Educational Psychology

and one of

  • EDUC 222-3 Research Methods in Educational Psychology
  • PSYC 201W-4 Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology

Upper Division Requirements

Students complete all of

  • EDUC 315-3 Individual and Developmental Differences in Language Acquisition
  • EDUC 320-3 Instructional Psychology
  • EDUC 322-3 The Social Lives of School Children
  • EDUC 327-3 Self, Psychology and Education

and one of

  • EDUC 422-4 Learning Disabilities
  • EDUC 428W-4 Nature and Nurture of Gifted Students
  • EDUC 464-4 Early Childhood Education

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