Community Education

The low residency BA in Education and Licensure Program offers a concentration in Community Education for students currently engaged in community education and related fields.  The concentration aims to bring early childhood educators, youth workers, after-school providers, continuing education leaders and others together to combine theory with knowledge and skills acquired through working in the field.

Low residency Community Education students utilize experiences in the workplace and the local community to produce a relevant and meaningful program of study rooted in theory, expanded through practice and focused on personal and professional educational goals. Students in the low residency Community Education Concentration cover three required learning areas: philosophy and history of progressive and community education; the community education process; and understanding community education in a political context. Students also have the option of studying program and curriculum development in a community context.