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The Education Studies major is an interdisciplinary BA degree. Students in this major learn how education continuously shapes society and how, in turn, society continuously transforms education. Using powerful tools from public policy, advocacy, and social entrepreneurship, students learn how members of society, including themselves, can influence education at its many levels, whether in school or non-school settings, locally, nationally and internationally. 

You can email your advisor at edstudies.adviser-group@nyu.edu.

Your first-year curriculum will look like this (all terms and sessions are required):

Spring Term 

Introduction to US Education

Writing as Inquiry

New Student Seminar

Two Liberal Arts Core Courses from the following areas:

  • Foreign Language
  • Cultures and Context
  • Expressive Culture
  • Social Science
  • Humanities
  • Physical Science
  • Life Science

Summer Terms I and II

Education Studies Course (by advisement)

Advanced Writing and Research

Two Liberal Arts Core Courses from the following areas:

  • Foreign Language
  • Cultures and Context
  • Expressive Culture
  • Social Science
  • Humanities
  • Physical Science
  • Life Science