BS in Education & Human Development

If you would like advice, help with planning, or simply need more information on the program, please make an appointment with Dommie Bochman (dbochman@bu.edu), Undergraduate Academic Advisor.

Upon completion of the CGS program, students must have earned credit towards the following 10 courses:

• Humanities: 3 courses
  • Choose two from CGS HU 103, CGS HU 201, or CGS HU 202
  • CGS HU 104*
• Natural Sciences: 2 courses
  • CGS NS 201 and CGS NS 202
• Rhetoric: 2 courses
  • CGS RH 103 and CGS RH 104*
• Social Sciences: 3 courses
  • Choose two from CGS SS 103, CGS SS 201, or CGS SS 202
  • CGS SS 104*

*Required course taken during the Summer term.

Core Courses (28 Units)

• WED CE 142 Anti-Oppressive Practice: Education & Applied Psychology (4 units)
• WED ED 140 An Interdisciplinary Approach to Professions in Education & Human
  Development (4 units)
• WED ED 220 Language Development in Education and Society (4 units)
• WED ED 230 Introduction to Design as Educational Inquiry (4 units)
• WED ED 431 Child Policy (4 units)
• WED HD 136 Introduction to Human Development (4 units)
• WED HD 265 Social Science Research for Community Impact (4 units)

Signature Courses (8 Units)

Select 8 Units:

• WED DE 300 Introduction to the Deaf World (4 units)
• WED ED 200 Introduction to Justice Based Education (4 units)
• WED ED 300 Learning as a Cultural Process (4 units)
• WED YJ 360 Positive Youth Development (4 units)

Students continuing to Wheelock will choose one of the following specialization pathways as their focus: Child & Adolescent Mental Health, Deaf Studies/Deaf Education, Educational Design for Transformative Social Futures, Teaching & Learning; and Youth Development & Justice.

To learn more about the major, please visit the Wheelock website and the BU Bulletin.

• Completion of the CGS curriculum and appropriate electives
• Cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 2.00
• B- in WED CE142 Anti-Oppressive Practice: Education and Applied Psychology (4 units)

• BU Hub requirements
  • Students who take the specific CGS courses noted on the pathway above will fulfill all BU Hub requirements except those listed below. These remaining Hub requirements will be fulfilled through the following courses.
  • Teamwork/Collaboration (1 requirement) will be fulfilled by WED CE 142
  • Writing-Intensive Course (1 requirement) will be fulfilled by WED ED 200, WED ED 220, or WED ED 431
  • You will owe two remaining Hub requirements – Quantitative Reasoning II and Creativity & Innovation
• Wheelock major requirements