Secondary Education/History, B.A.

History Requirements

Majors pursuing a dual major in History and secondary education must satisfy University General Education requirements, and the College speech requirement, COMM 210 , all secondary education requirements, and the following 14 courses as specified and sufficient electives to total 120 credits.

Secondary Education Requirements

• Level I: Exploring the Profession Coursework

• EDU 200 - Foundations of Education
• EDU 202 - Psychology of Learning and Development

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  Level II: Preparing to Teach Coursework

• EDU 306 - Classroom Applications of Technology at the Middle and Secondary School Level
• EDU 330 - Foundations of Equity and Diversity
• EDU 357 - Inclusive Practices in Special Education
• EDU 363 - Literacy Across the Curriculum
• EDU 373 - Issues in Middle and Secondary Health Education
• EDU 374 - Secondary Education Pre-Practicum

• This course is a Pre-Practicum Residency requirement for all Secondary Education majors that will be repeated during sophomore and junior years. All Secondary Education students will be placed in a middle/high school for field experiences and will register for this course to demonstrate their field participation, during: (1) sophomore fall semester, (2) sophomore spring semester, (2) junior fall semester, and (3) junior spring semester. Students must register for three one-hour sections of this course during those semesters and complete a minimum 30-hour residency over the course of each semester. Juniors abroad are excused from this requirement for the abroad semester.

• Three additional pedagogical content knowledge courses in the certification area, the third of which is taken simultaneously with Practicum, and is understood as belonging to Curriculum Level II:
   

  Certification Area: Social Science/History

• EDU 384 - Teaching World Geography
• EDU 396 - Social Science Thinking in Context
• EDU 397 - Social Science Inquiry in Context
• EDU 413 - Capstone: Ways of Knowing - History and Social Studies
• ECON 111 - Principles of Microeconomics
• POLSC 100 - American Government and Politics
• EDU 376 - Secondary Education Practicum (Field Experience)

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  Level III: Performing in the Classroom Coursework

• EDU 450 - Student Teaching
• EDU 451 - Student Teaching Seminar