2024-2025 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog

History, B.S. (Certifiable for secondary teaching of history and social studies)

A minor is not required with this major.

Requirements

15 credits must be at the 400 level. 490 is included in this.

History Core (9 credits)

HIST 101History Matters

1

HIST 301The Historical Imagination

4

HIST 490Senior Seminar

4

Non-Western History (6 credits above the 100-level; 3 credits must appear on the state-approved non-western history course list)

European History (6 credits above the 100-level)

U.S. History (12 credits above the 100 level)

HIST 401U.S. History for Teachers

3

History Electives (3 credits at 100 level)

HIST 121 strongly recommended

Modern World History

HIST 410World History for Teachers

3

Social Science

PS 110American Government & Politics

3

ECON 200Principles of Macroeconomics

3

ECON 201Principles of Microeconomics

3

GEOG 110Introduction to Geography

3

ECON 200 and ECON 201 should be taken for General Education in Study Area II

Professional Program Courses ( 28 credits)

SPED 315Introduction to Educating Learners with Exceptionalities

3

EDTE 316Principles of Learning in Diverse Settings (Secondary)

4

EDT 315Educational Technology in the Secondary School Classroom

1

LLA 440Literacy instruction in the Secondary School

3

EDSC 425Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Teaching at the Secondary Level

3

SSCI 415Social Studies Methods at the Secondary Level

3

SSCI 416Fieldwork in Secondary Social Studies Education

1

EDSC 435Secondary Education Student Teaching

9

SSCI 421Social Studies Student Teaching Seminar

1

Additional Requirements (6 credits)

EDF 215Education in a Multicultural Society

3

PSY 136Life-Span Development

3

Total Credit Hours: 51