Degrees for Education

The Bachelor of Arts & Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary) allows students to focus their degree in the area of Arts that inspires and interests them while simultaneously studying for a teaching qualification. Graduates are able to choose a range of career outcomes that includes, but is not limited to teaching.

Major areas of study available:
• Behavioural Science
• Communications & Media
• English Literature
• Environmental Science
• Geography
• History
• Italian or Greek Language and Culture
• Legal Studies
• Philosophy & Ethics
• Politics
• Social Justice
• Sociology
• Theatre Studies.

This program is designed to appeal to adults who are interested in the teaching profession but whose schedules prevent them from attending during the work week. The program should be of particular benefit to:
Education paraprofessionals who want to gain K-8 certification
Parent volunteers who have developed an interest in teaching
Working adults who are considering a career change to teaching
Pre-retirement professionals who would like to teach as a second career
Adults of any age who, for whatever reason, have put off a longtime dream of being a teacher
A cohort community with flexible entry points

In the program’s core education courses, students will work together as a community of learners, all with the same professional goal. However, individual participants can enter the cohort or stop out, temporarily, on a quarter-by-quarter basis.

General education requirements—science, communications, and math, for example—can be completed in whatever sequence and at whatever time best meets an individual student’s needs.

The program maintains what’s best about learner cohorts—mutual support, a sense of community, and a career-focused curriculum—while accommodating the individuality of students’ lives, interests, and abilities.

SUA provides an outstanding liberal arts education designed to draw forth and nurture the unique potential of each individual. SUA students enjoy small seminar classes with an average class size of 16, a 9 to 1 student faculty ratio, and professors teaching comparative Eastern and Western perspectives across the liberal arts curriculum.

All students are required to concentrate on a foreign language and to participate in a study abroad for a semester in their junior year relevant to their major and their language of study.

The Core is a series of sequential courses taken by all undergraduate students, focusing on central issues facing our world in the 21st century. These courses examine comparative perspectives in areas including views of the self, the relationship between self and society, and ther relationship between self and the environment.

The Learning Clusters are courses in which small interdisciplinary teams of students and faculty work together to do research and develop proposals and solutions addressing local, regional and world issues. Acquiring the critical tools of investigation and analysis will be integral to the Learning Cluster experience, as well as the integration of knowledge and service.

As part of the liberal arts curriculum, SUA also offers classes in fine and performing arts, science, communications, business and other humanities. See curriculum and catalog for a detailed list of classes.