Undergraduate Programs

BA in Elementary Education

The BA in Elementary Education prepares elementary teachers who create classrooms that are welcoming to all students and who treat all students with dignity and care. Graduates develop the knowledge and tools to to provide rich opportunities for all students to learn, and complete coursework for an elementary teaching license and an endorsement for teaching culturally linguistically diverse students. We integrate courses that prepare teachers to embrace diversity while providing a focused path for students interested in becoming reflective, ethical and responsive teachers, who aim to make the world a more just place.

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BA in Leadership & Community Engagement

The BA in Leadership and Community Engagement prepares ethical and culturally aware leaders who collaborate with community partners to tackle society’s big challenges. You will take part in one of the only degree programs of its kind and as part of a small number of emerging community engagement degrees nationwide.

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Education Minor

If you are interested in education but not necessarily classroom teaching, this minor will allow you to study more deeply how political, cultural, social, and historical dynamics shape policy and practice in education, understand issues of equity and social justice, and prepare you to work in informal educational settings.

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Leadership Studies Minor

Whether you plan to lead a start-up, be a community organizer, found a non-profit, serve in the military, or run for office, the Leadership Studies Minor will help you develop as a leader. You will explore the academic research about leadership and will apply your leadership practice as a CU Boulder student.

Ethnic Studies Graduate

BAM in Ethnic Studies and Education

You will develop a better understanding of the social, political, and cultural factors influencing our diverse world in this BAM (Bachelor's and Master's) Concurrent Degree Program allowing an efficient and rigorous path toward earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Ethnic Studies and a Master’s Degree in Education in just five years.

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Teacher Licensure Pathways

We offer an Elementary Education program for those interested in teaching grades K-6, and Secondary Teacher Licensure programs for teacher candidates interested in a teaching license for grades 7-12. Students in secondary teacher licensure programs first declare a major suitable for the subject they want to teach, and pair that focus with teacher education coursework and practica experiences to prepare them to teach in a given subject area.

STEM teacher education students gain added support from the renowned CU Teach program.

Pathways and Certificates Open to All Majors

INVST Community Studies

The intensive two-year INVST Community Leadership Program offers transformative service learning for students who are passionate about social and environmental justice. The certificate program develops leaders who engage in compassionate action as a lifetime commitment.

Public Achievement

An international youth leadership program that places young people in the center of public life. Youth participants design, implement, and undertake community-based projects that address social issues with support from CU Boulder students as "coaches."

Multicultural Leadership Scholars

Through coursework, service, and socialization that is open to all majors, Multicultural Leadership Scholars develop a deep awareness of their own values and belief systems as well as those of others.

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Boulder County Latino History Project interns

Students shed new light on rich Latino history

Three education students interning with the Latino History Project are helping document and preserve the past by making local Latino history available online and for teachers. “This project has allowed us the opportunity to, in a way, rewrite history, my people’s history, to serve as a counter story to the images we receive every day,” said Esmeralda Castillo-Cobian, a senior in the Ethnic Studies and Education BAM program. Read more

Music education alumnus named Colorado Young Music Teacher of the Year

This month, Ben Pollack, a 26-year-old music teacher with the Huerfano School District in Walsenburg, Colorado, will be honored at the Colorado Music Educators’ Association Conference. “Teaching music is the most important thing I do,” says Pollack (Music Licensure ’14). “It has to matter every day.” Read more

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Kirsten Musetti Tivaringe named to global 30 under 30 list of literacy leaders

Doctoral student Kirsten Musetti Tivaringe is one of 30 literacy leaders named to the International Literacy Association’s 30 Under 30 list, a cohort of young innovators, disruptors and visionaries creating positive change in the global literacy landscape. The competitive list celebrates rising leaders in the literacy field. Read more

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