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Progress Towards Degree Audit Sheets:

If you were admitted Fall 2025 or earlier: Behavior, Education, and Communication Courses and Requirements (PDF)

If you were admitted Fall 2026 or later: Behavior, Education, and Communication Courses and Requirements (PDF)

Google sheets version of the degree audit. Click that link to open the file > go to "file" at the top left in the menu bar > click make a copy from the drop down menu to get your own, editable version.

Summary of requirements:

  • Three (3) courses from the Behavior, Education, and Communication course list
  • EAS 509: Concepts and Applications and EAS 510: The Science and Practice of Social Change, or course(s) from the Social Systems Distribution list. Students without a background in the social sciences are asked to complete 510. Those with a strong understanding of the social sciences are instead asked to complete one 3-credit course or a combination of courses equaling a total of at least 3 credits (e.g. two 1.5-credit courses) from the Social Systems Distribution list (in place of 510)
  • Two (2) courses totaling at least three (3) credits from the approved list of Integrated Analytic Methods & Skills (IAMS) courses (required for students admitted Fall 2025 and before)
  • One statistics course from the approved list 
  • One analytics course the approved list 
  • Graduate-level electives (400-level or higher)
  • Minimum 25 EAS credit hours
  • Minimum 42 total credit hours

*Complete listing of EAS courses (including those from other specializations)

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