People learn everywhere and at all ages. You can prepare for a variety of careers related to education and learning through this program's coursework in a focus area aligned to your interests and by gaining professional experience through a series of community internships.

The BAE program in educational studies prepares students to work with children, youth, and adults within nonprofit settings, community institutions, civic organizations and businesses. Students develop cultural competence for social justice, including self-awareness, understanding and valuing others, and knowledge of societal inequities. Students develop skills for facilitating learning experiences with and for diverse people in different contexts, skills to foster equity and inclusion, and skills for effective communication, collaboration, leadership, advocacy and innovation, all of which are essential to education professionals.Students focus on one of 12 core tracks, pursuing additional coursework and expertise in:businesscommunity healthcounselingenvironmental educationfamily and human developmentglobal studieshealth innovationsnonprofit administrationorganizational leadershippersonal healthpolitical sciencerecreation managementEducational studies students complete a two-semester internship. Students can choose to intern with a nonprofit, business or government organization. Through their internship experiences, students use concepts of diversity, equity and social justice to guide their identification of an education challenge within their organization. Then, using the human-centered design approach, which involves placing people at the center of the problem-solving process, they examine the challenge, ideate and ultimately implement a solution.An educational studies minor is also available to ASU students in other degree programs.This program does not lead to teacher certification. Students seeking teacher certification should enroll in one of the other Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College undergraduate programs.