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I've heard that a lot of courses overlap with each other. I wanted to know if it's hard to do double major in psychology and education, and I mean hard as in, I'll have to stay an extra 3 years to complete the dual degree b/c the classes are so different, etc.
What level of education are you aspiring to teach? It makes a difference.
Typically, the only education undergraduate degree that exists as its own major is Elementary Education. Some places may have Early Childhood Education, but that's ordinarily an associate's degree. Double majoring in psych and el ed may or may not be able to be accomplished in four years, depending on what the individual requirements for each are at your school.
Secondary education is usually set up as a certification program done concurrently with a major in whatever discipline you will be teaching.
Case in point: I majored in English, and got my secondary ed cert at the same time. Getting the sec. ed cert was the courseload equivalent of doing a double major, but my degree wasn't in education, it was in English, with secondary language arts teaching certification. Workload-wise, it was like doing a double major, as far as courses required. The education coursework wasn't difficult, but it was time-consuming, requiring lots and lots of hours of observation, shadowing working teachers for classes, practicum, etc. I also got my degree/cert in 1999...as of 2000 in that state, it became a 4.5 year program, requiring an additional semester to student teach. When I did it, you could fit your student teaching in the last semester of your senior year. Had I had to stay an extra semester, I wouldn't have done it.
In any event, there is a lot of overlap in content, but you will still need to take separate classes from both departments. If you are still a music ed major, it's going to be tough to finish in 4 years because the music part has so many class requirements for little credit. Anyway, music ed is K-12, not el. ed.
When I did my psychology undergrad we only needed something like 32 hours of actual psychology courses. I'm sure almost all of the prereqs overlap, so you might be able to do it in 4 years. Perhaps with a few summer courses.
Jazzii, I think the two majors would mesh pretty well and doable. I know a few schools, including where my daughter went for undergrad, that required ed majors to double major. My daughter chose Sociology to complement her ed degree.
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