{"id":963,"date":"2011-08-17T18:01:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T18:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/?page_id=963"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:31:48","slug":"academics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/academics\/","title":{"rendered":"Academics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Bates Department of Education offers two minors in education for students interested in connecting their academic interests in a major discipline with the field of education:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/academics\/educational-studies\/\"> Education Studies<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/academics\/teacher-education\/\">Teacher Education.<\/a>&nbsp; Students interested in designing a minor in education are encouraged to come to information sessions offered twice during the academic year and to make appointments with education faculty for early planning and advisement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Planning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students who wish to pursue a minor in education in either Teacher Education or Educational Studies should begin planning their course schedules no later than the sophomore year.&nbsp; With early planning, they will be able to meet all requirements for a major and a minor and spend some time in off-campus study as well.&nbsp; Those students interested in certification need to think about how to manage the demands of student teaching in their senior year with their coursework and thesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Declaring your minor<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/01\/151203_Mara_Tieken_0411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/01\/151203_Mara_Tieken_0411-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/01\/151203_Mara_Tieken_0411-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/01\/151203_Mara_Tieken_0411-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/01\/151203_Mara_Tieken_0411-900x506.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/01\/151203_Mara_Tieken_0411-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/01\/151203_Mara_Tieken_0411.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Minor declaration deadline is<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>March 1 of sophomore year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students interested in declaring the&nbsp;<strong><em>Educational Studies minor&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>must complete the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2023\/09\/Application-for-an-Education-Minor-EDUCATIONAL-STUDIES.pdf\">Education Studies minor application<\/a> by March 1 and meet with any Education professor <strong>prior&nbsp;<\/strong>to this deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students interested in declaring the&nbsp;<strong><em>Teacher Education minor&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>must complete the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2024\/05\/Application-for-an-Education-Minor-TEACHER-EDUCATION-fillable-form-May.pdf\">Teacher Education minor application<\/a> as well as all forms\/pieces\/essays that are due with the application by March 1 and meet with Anita Charles, Director of Teacher Education,&nbsp;prior to this deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Interdisciplinary majors<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;who wish to include education among the fields in their major must meet with and secure the agreement to advise from an Education professor&nbsp;<strong>prior to March 1 of sophomore year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates Department of Education offers two minors in education for students&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-963","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/963\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}