Degrees for Education

The Physical Education Program includes a variety of activity courses from which the student may select. Emphasis is on a “sports for all” approach in hopes that each person will discover that physical activity can contribute to his/her well being now and in the future. Lifetime sports such as swimming, racquetball, squash, tennis, aerobics, badminton, golf, rock climbing/bouldering, and skating are particularly popular. To accommodate those who would prefer a team sports experience, classes in volleyball, basketball, frisbee, and hockey are offered. Weight training, yoga, aerobics, and cycling classes help those who wish to work on various components of their fitness. Classes are coed and instruction is given at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Four terms of physical education are required for graduation. It is strongly recommended that students complete this requirement by the end of their sophomore year. Classes usually meet twice a week.

Professional, state and college standards guide your curriculum and assessments of skills, knowledge and dispositions. We want to guide you to help all students learn and prepare you to be a life-long learner. According to MEA-MFT’s Montana Certified School Staff Salary Schedules 2006-2007, the national average for the entry-level salary for elementary education was $31,704 in 2004 and is projected to be $35,661 for 2007.

If you pursue teacher certification you will work in the classroom early and become actively involved with the students. During many of your school placements, professors will coach you while you are in the classroom. You will spend over 600 hours in the classroom during your four years at Carroll. The professors within the department have diverse expertise and are involved in various endeavors that promote education. They are life-long learners, researchers, communicators, and educators who share their insight and experiences in the classroom and in the field. They are here to help you succeed.

The Women’s and Gender Studies Program provides an interdisciplinary meeting ground for exploring questions about women and gender that are transforming knowledge across disciplinary lines in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Its goal is to include gender, along with class, sexual orientation and race, as a central category of social and cultural analysis. Courses focusing on women and/or gender are offered by the departments of Asian Languages and Literatures, Classics, English, German and Russian, Romance Languages and Literatures, History, Media Studies, Music, Religion, Philosophy, Political Science, Art, Sociology and Anthropology, as well as Women’s and Gender Studies itself. Carleton offers a Concentration in Women’s and Gender Studies that allows students to complement their major field with an interdisciplinary focus on women and gender. However, all courses are open to all students, if they have fulfilled the prerequisites.

The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Concentration encourages students interested in the cultures and kingdoms that flourished from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance (roughly 4th -17th centuries C.E.) to deepen their understanding of these periods through an interdisciplinary program of study. The concentration likewise provides opportunities for students to explore the societies of Europe, Byzantium, and the Muslim world in a comparative way and to examine how diverse peoples and polities have coped with timeless problems of power, identity, belief, and representation. Because the concentration encompasses three organically interrelated historical periods, it allows students to examine issues of continuity and change more fully. At the same time, its wide range of course offerings and extracurricular events encourage an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex ways in which diverse aspects of culture and society interact to create, transform, and destroy the ideas and realities of states, institutions, and individuals.

Educational Studies attracts students from all walks of life, including many who don’t plan to become classroom teachers. We welcome everyone with an interest in education, which touches all our lives as concerned citizens, taxpayers, or future parents.

Because it complements many majors, Educational Studies is one of the most interdisciplinary departments at Carleton. In our courses you’ll meet students from almost every major on campus–united by a common belief in the importance of our schools and education’s role in a democratic society.