The purpose of the Educational Foundations (EdF) major is to prepare future elementary educational professionals who are critical thinkers and enabled to provide education for all students in economically, racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse communities. This is a pre-professional degree, and while the major does not result in a teaching license, it does prepare graduates who are highly competitive for admission into master’s level teacher certification programs in Oregon and around the country.

To explore or add the EdF major, please schedule an advising appointment at the College of Education Student Academic Services Center. [https://education.uoregon.edu/student-academic-services] This is the only way you can add the major or change from a different major.

To drop the EdF major, please email a COE Undergraduate Advisor.

2023-2024 Educational Foundations Major Program of Study

If you are interested in teaching at the middle or high school level, please visit: Certificate in Educational Foundations: Secondary

 The Educational Foundations programs are committed to providing a critical intersectional lens toward dismantling white supremacy. We engage in teaching, research and service that centers Tribal Sovereignty, Black Lives Matter in schools, Latinx and Asian Desi Pacific Islander identity and exclusion, economic justice, LGBTQ educational rights, immigrant educational rights, language preservation, and access and opportunity for Oregon K-12 students to all be fully included in every classroom.

The purpose of the Educational Foundations (EdF) major is to prepare future elementary educational professionals who are critical thinkers and enabled to provide education for all students in economically, racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse communities. This is a pre-professional degree, and while the major does not result in a teaching license, it does prepare graduates who are highly competitive for admission into master’s level teacher certification programs in Oregon and around the country.

To explore or add the EdF major, please schedule an advising appointment at the College of Education Student Academic Services Center. [https://education.uoregon.edu/student-academic-services] This is the only way you can add the major or change from a different major.

To drop the EdF major, please email a COE Undergraduate Advisor.

2023-2024 Educational Foundations Major Program of Study

If you are interested in teaching at the middle or high school level, please visit: Certificate in Educational Foundations: Secondary

 The Educational Foundations programs are committed to providing a critical intersectional lens toward dismantling white supremacy. We engage in teaching, research and service that centers Tribal Sovereignty, Black Lives Matter in schools, Latinx and Asian Desi Pacific Islander identity and exclusion, economic justice, LGBTQ educational rights, immigrant educational rights, language preservation, and access and opportunity for Oregon K-12 students to all be fully included in every classroom.