Secondary Education: History & Social Science
Major Requirements
To fulfill the requirements of the major, all students in this program will take the following coursework in a sequence determined in collaboration with a faculty advisor. Some courses also satisfy Liberal Arts Core and/or University requirements. Some coursework fulfills teaching licensure requirements as specified by the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- ECO 211 Principles of Macroeconomics
- ED 200SL Foundations of Teaching and Learning
- ED 254 Technology for the K-12 Classroom
- ED 309 Special Education Foundations and Characteristics of Exceptional Learners
- ED 337 Literacy in the Content Areas
- ED 338 Secondary Education: Curriculum and Methods
- ED 351 Assessments to Support Learning in K-12
- ED 367 Secondary Teaching Methods in History and Social Studies
- ED 460S Student Teaching: Secondary
- ED 461 Classroom Management in the PK-12 Classroom
- GEO 201 Introduction to Geography
- HI 103 Western Civilization I
- HI 104 Western Civilization II
- HI 110 History of the US to 1877
- HI 111 History of the US since 1877
- HI 250 Research and Writing
- HI 311 Modern European History: 1914 to the Present or HI 350 Modern United States History
- HI 322 Colonial and Revolutionary America or HI 420 Senior Seminar
- 12 credits in 300-level History courses
- POL 103 Comparative Politics
- POL 104 American Government
- PSY 110 Human Growth and Development
