Secondary Education Certification in Social Science with Social Studies Minor

For History Majors with Minor in Social Studies

Requirements for history majors with a minor in social studies seeking secondary certification in social science are as follows:

54 credit hours Bachelor of Arts in History

18 credit hours Minor in Social Studies

39-41 credit hours Minor in Secondary Education (9-12)

Required Methods of Teaching course

EDU 33500

Secondary Methods of Teaching Social Studies

Bachelor of Arts in History

A major in history requires 54 credit hours of coursework through the Department of History and Geography as well as the general education requirements listed below.

Six required courses:

HIS 20000	History of the Contemporary World	3
HIS 20300	Historical Methods	3
HIS 22300	The Ancient and Medieval World	3
HIS 30100	Early Modern Europe	3
HIS 30200	Modern Europe	3
HIS 40000	Senior Seminar in History	3

One course selected from the following options:

HIS 21500	American History to 1865 Advanced Survey	3
HIS 10500	America: Colony to Civil War	3

One course selected from the following options:

HIS 21600	American History Since 1865 Advanced Survey	3
HIS 10600	America: Civil War to World Power	3

One course selected from the following options:

HIS 20500	History of Asia	3
HIS 22000	History of Latin America	3

One course selected from the following options:

HIS 35000	Applied History	3-6
HIS 45000	History Internship	3-6
EDU 41000	Student Teaching	12

Two courses of European history selected from the following options:

HIS 26100	History of the British Isles	4
HIS 32900	Church and State in Early Modern Europe	3
HIS 33000	European Intellectual History	3
HIS 33200	Revolution in the Modern World	3
HIS 33600	The Civilization of Industrialism	3
HIS 33700	The Soviet Union and European Communism	3
HIS 33800	War and Society in the Twentieth Century	3
HIS 35500	Europe Since 1945	3

Three courses of United States history, two of which must be at or above the 30000 level, selected from the following options:

HIS 20700	American Military History though World War Two	3
HIS 21400	American Military History Since 1941	3
HIS 23200	History of American Sports	3
HIS 30800	The Origins of the United States to 1800	3
HIS 30900	The Age of Jackson	3
HIS 31000	The Civil War and Reconstruction	3
HIS 31200	The Growth of Modern America, 1877-1914	3
HIS 31400	Economic History of America	3
HIS 31500	History of Gender in America	3
HIS 31600	A Biography of the Constitution	3
HIS 31700	The American West 1830-1960	3
HIS 31800	History of Race in America	3
HIS 32000	The United States 1918-1945: Prosperity, Depression, and War	3
HIS 32100	The United States in the Age of the Cold War	3

History majors must take one of the following:

GEO 20100	World Regional Geography	3
GEO 20200	Concepts of Geography	3
GEO 20700	World Economic Geography	3
GEO 30100	World Historical Geography	3

which will fulfill a cross cultural general education requirement.

History majors must take:

HIS 15500	U.S. Government: Politics and History	3
	OR
PS 15500	American Government: The Nation	3

to fulfill the general education US history/government requirement.

History majors must take:

ECON 23010	Survey of Economics	3
	OR
HIS 31400	Economic History of America	3

to fulfill one of the general education social science requirements. If students take HIS 31400 for economics credit, they cannot count it as a history (HIS) elective.

It is recommended that history majors take:

HIS 22100	Global History Since 1500	3
HIS 21500	American History to 1865 Advanced Survey	3
HIS 21600	American History Since 1865 Advanced Survey	3

to fulfill the general education world history and the United States survey history requirements.

Minor in Social Studies

A minor in social studies requires 18 credit hours of coursework.

Five required courses:

ANT 11200	Cultural Anthropology	3
GEO 20100	World Regional Geography	3
	OR
GEO 20200	Concepts of Geography	3
PS 15600	American Government: The States	3
PSY 10000	Principles of Psychology	3
SOC 10200	Basic Concepts of Sociology	3

One course chosen from the following options:

ANT 21000	Native North American Indians	3
ANT 31700	Social and Cultural Change	3
ANT 32400	The Anthropology of Religion	3
ANT 32700	Environmental Anthropology	3
ECON 23020	Principles of Microeconomics	3
ECON 23030	Principles of Macroeconomics	3
ECON 33035	Current Economic & Social Issues	3
ECON 33060	History of Economic Thought	3
GEO 20000	Introduction to Geographic Information Systems	3
GEO 20300	Human Geography	3
PS 31000	Congress, the Presidency, and the Party System	3
PS 31500	Policy Analysis Statistics	3
IR 35000	International Relations Theory	3
SOC 24000	The Sociology of Gender Roles	3
SOC 31800	Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: A Global Perspective	3
SOC 32400	Social Interaction in Everyday Life	3
SOC 42000/ANT 42000	Sociocultural Theory	3

This minor is recommended for students majoring in history who are seeking certification to teach social studies at the secondary level. See a history advisor about this minor.