EDUC at Pennsylvania State University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate EDUC coursework.

• EDUC 467English Language Structure for English as a Second Language Teachersopens 3 courses (0.3 directly)
• EDUC 468Language Acquisition for English as a Second Language Teachersopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• EDUC 469Teaching Methods and Assessment of English as a Second Languageopens 1 course (1 directly)
• EDUC 321Methods in Teaching Intermediate and Advanced Readersopens 1 course (0.5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate EDUC work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 27 EDUC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 51 more EDUC courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on EDUC, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in EDUC. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at EDUC 475

  1. EDPSY 10Individual Differences and Education
  2. EDUC 467English Language Structure for English as a Second Language Teachers
  3. EDUC 468Language Acquisition for English as a Second Language Teachers
  4. EDUC 469Teaching Methods and Assessment of English as a Second Language
  5. EDUC 475ESL Leadership, Research and Advocacy

• 3 courses deep, ending at EDUC 471

  1. EDUC 320Methods in Teaching Beginning Readers
  2. EDUC 321Methods in Teaching Intermediate and Advanced Readers
  3. EDUC 471Best Practices in Literacy

• 2 courses deep, ending at EDUC 414

  1. EDUC 314Learning Theory and Instructional Procedures
  2. EDUC 414Teaching Secondary Science

• 2 courses deep, ending at EDUC 415

  1. EDUC 315YSocial and Cultural Factors in Education
  2. EDUC 415Teaching Secondary Social Studies

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for EDUC yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under EDUC yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

EDUC does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Penn State campus feed.