Community, Youth, and Education Studies Major

Community, Youth, and Education Studies Overview

Housed in the Education Department, Community, Youth, and Education Studies (CYES) is an interdisciplinary major that bridges Community Development, Critical Youth Studies, and Education Studies. In addition to the power of interdisciplinarity, CYES majors and minors engage in social justice praxis. Toward that end, students in the major take a sequence of 11-courses that guides and supports them to critically interrogate their social world, reflexively examine their social location within that world, and engage in social change. The aim of CYES is to prepare students for engaged scholarship and leadership in the 21st century, working for social justice across a wide-range of educational, cultural, institutional, and linguistic boundaries and borders. 

Major Requirements

Community, Youth, and Education Studies Faculty

Community, Youth, and Education Studies Courses

Courses offered within the last 2 Academic Years

• CYES 295 - Praxis Design
• CYES 250 - Social Justice Participatory Research Practices
• EDUC 060 - Public Schools and Democracy
• EDUC 152 - Complexities of Urban Schooling
• EDUC 155 - Education and Social Policy
• EDUC 208 - Literacy Across the Curriculum
• EDUC 227 - Culture, Language, and Education
• EDUC 254 - Education in Film: Media Representations of Race, Class, Gender & Schooling
• EDUC 255 - Ethnography at School
• EDUC 260 - Literacy Development
• EDUC 261 - Human Development and Learning
• EDUC 264 - Knowledge, Development and Instruction
• EDUC 280 - Teaching English Language Learners
• EDUC 281 - Critical Pedagogies
• EDUC 291 - An Exploration of Multicultural Children’s and Young Adult Literature
• EDUC 329 - Graphic Novels in the Classroom
• HIST 016 - American Race and Ethnicity
• IDCE 303 - Youth Work: Practice and Social Justice
• ID 220 - Critical Pedagogy for Social and Environmental Justice: Liberal Arts Education in Practice
• ID 265 - Global Issues in Education
• SOC 137 - Race and Ethnicity Across Borders: Comparing the Local and Global
• SOC 160 - Global Cultures and Identities
• SOC 252 - Race and American Society
• SOC 260 - Roots and Routes: Immigrants, Diasporas and Travel