Community Education Minor
The Community Education minor is for students that are ready to be change makers, innovators, leaders, creative thinkers, and non-traditional educators in their chosen fields in either education, the nonprofit sector, for profit organizations, or entrepreneurial enterprises.
The course work is driven by hands-on, experiential, progressive forward-thinking practical experiences and appropriate for students in any career fields that fosters innovation, creativity, non-traditional approaches, and forward thinking ideas. These fields could include (but are not limited to) business, (elementary/secondary) education, nursing, psychology, science, social work, speech pathology, etc. Students in comprehensive area programs (art, music, and physical education) would also be able to add the minor. Students will be equipped with a minor that is innovative, creative, non-traditional, and forward thinking, by being prepared with basics of community and social change and innovation, as well as problem/ project-based service-learning opportunities.
Requirements
Choose 15 hours from the following (with a minimum of 9 hours in CEP courses):
| CEP 101 | Introduction to Community Education & CEP | 3 |
| CEP 201 | Cross-Cultural Competencies in Changing Communities | 3 |
| CEP 411 | Formal & Non-formal Educational Models | 3 |
| CEP 421 | Promoting Creativity & the Arts | 3 |
| CEP 422 | Outdoor Learning Spaces | 3 |
| CEP 433 | Program Design & Implementation | 3 |
| CEP 442 | Community Empowerment & Engagement | 3 |
| CEP 443 | Fundraising & Grant Writing | 3 |
| CEP 452 | Reggio Emilia & Other Approaches | 3 |
| CEP 463 | Leadership in Community Education | 3 |
| CEP 493 | Internship/ International Community Experience | 4 |
| EDUC 201 | Human Development | 3 |
| EDUC 205 | Integrated Arts for Elementary Teacher | 3 |
| EDUC 290 | Instructional Technology | 3 |
| SPED 241 | Introduction to Exceptionalities | 3 |