Social Studies Education (5-12 Certification)

Education Courses (38-39 credits)

EDU-130	American Education	3
EDU-200	Educational Technology	1
EDU-296	Secondary School Observation/ Participation	2
EDU-240	Educational Psychology	3
EDU-250	Principles of Teaching	3
PSY-276	Psychology of the Exceptional Learner	3
EDU-324	Literacy in Diverse Classrooms	3
EDU-382SS	Methods of Teaching Sr High/Jr High/ Middle School Social Studies	3
EDU-382C	Methods of Teaching Senior High/Junior High/Middle School Practicum	1
EDU-383P	Secondary Practicum P-12/5-12	1
EDU-490	Supervised Student Teaching in Senior/JuniorHigh/Middle School (5-12)	15
EDU-495	Student Teaching Seminar	1

Social Studies Courses

Education Courses (27 credits)

Foundation Courses

MAT-112	General Statistics	3
GEO-202	Political and Cultural Geography	3

Required:

Historical Perspectives (12 credits)

HST-185	Foundations of Civilization to 1648	3
HST-190	The West and the World after 1648	3
HST-211	American Civilization to 1865	3
HST-212	American Civilization after 1865	3
HST-290	Making History: Historians, Historical Techniques and Historiography	3

Government (12 credits)

POL-100	American Government	3
POL-232	Comparative Politics	3
-	or
POL-230	World Politics	3
POL-322	Research Design and Methods in Political Science and Economics	3
-	or
ECO-322	Research Design and Methods in Political Science and Economics	3
POL-	Elective	3
POL-	Elective (300-400 level): see "Scholarship List" requirement below	3

Content areas

Economics (9 credits)

ECO-212	Microeconomics	3
ECO-213	Macroeconomics	3
ECO-	Elective (300-400 level)	3

Sociology (9 credits)

SOC-150	Principles of Sociology	3
-	or
SOC-210	Minority Group Relations	3
-	SOC Elective	3
-	SOC Elective	3
SOC-	Elective (300-400 level)	3

Psychology (9 credits)

EDU-240	Educational Psychology	3
PSY-150	General Psychology	3
PSY-276	Psychology of the Exceptional Learner	3
-	PSY Elective	3
-	PSY Elective	3
PSY-	Elective (300-400 level)	3

EDU-240, PSY-150, and PSY-276 are counted as part of the General Education requirements.

Scholarship List Requirement: SSE majors are required to take an upper-division scholarship quality elective under both the Historical Perspectives requirement and the Government requirement. Both the HST and POL upper-division scholarship quality courses will be determined by the SSE content advisor in coordination with the School of Teacher Education.