Emancipatory Education
Graduate Minor
Quick Facts
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The Emancipatory Education graduate minor is designed to support P–20 educational leaders—including teachers, faculty, administrators, policymakers, and community-based advocates—in developing liberatory approaches to education that benefit all students. This minor emphasizes transformative educational praxis, encouraging students to move beyond identifying systemic challenges and toward generating solutions to improve educational systems and practices.
Develop liberatory approaches to education for P-20 educational leaders across multiple sectors.
Learn to actively engage in the process of questioning and envisioning new educational horizons.
Apply critical thinking to actively engage in seeking solutions for transforming educational systems and practices.
The program is intentionally designed to be accessible to students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, including those without prior experience in education. The minor will help prepare students for careers in:
- Education Administration
- Student Affairs Administration
- Higher Education Advocacy
- Education Policy and Leadership
- Academic Faculty
- Education Researcher
- Community-Based Education Advocacy
- Philanthropy in Education
The transcriptable minor consists of 9 credit hours, including the required course EDL 603: Foundations of Emancipatory Education. To finish fulfilling the minor courses, students can select from among courses like:
- EDL 627: Leadership for Educational and Organizational Change
- TLS 518: Participatory Action Research
- HED 638: Critical Geographies of Higher Education
- TLS 503A: Critical Youth Studies