Integrated Social Studies Education

Effective for students admitted to the College of Education and Human Ecology beginning Spring 2024

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General Education Requirements (32-39 Hours)

Bookends (2 Hours)

• Launch Seminar (1)
• Reflection Seminar (1)

Foundations (22-25 Hours)

• Writing & Information Literacy (3)
• Mathematical & Quantitative Reasoning or Data Analysis (3-5)
• Literary, Visual & Performing Arts (3)
• Historical & Cultural Studies (3)
• Natural Science (4-5)
• Social & Behavioral Sciences (3)
• Race, Ethnic & Gender Diversity (3)

Thematic Pathways (8-12 Hours)

Take 4-6 hours from Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World and 4-6 hours from another Thematic Pathway of choice.

• Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
• Choice of 4-6 hours from one additional Thematic Pathway:
  • Lived Environments
  • Origins & Evolution
  • Migration, Mobility, & Immobility
  • Sustainability
  • Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Number, Nature, Mind

College Requirement (1 Hour)

• EHE 1100 College Survey (1)

Content Requirements (54 Hours)

Must maintain a minimum 2.75 GPA in Content Requirements

• Choose one:
  • HISTORY 1151 American History to 1877 (3)
  • HISTORY 2001 Launching America (3)
• Choose one:
  • HISTORY 1152 American History since 1877 (3)
  • HISTORY 2002 Making America Modern (3)
• HISTORY 1681 World History to 1500 (can overlap with GE Historical & Cultural Studies) (3)
• HISTORY 1682 World History from 1500 to the Present (3)
• GEOG 2400 Economic and Social Geography (3)
• GEOG 2750 World Regional Geography (3)
• ECON 2001.01 Principles of Microeconomics (can overlap with GE Social & Behavioral Sciences) (3)
• ECON 2002.01 Principles of Macroeconomics (3)
• POLITSC 1100 Introduction to American Politics (3)
• POLITSC 1200 Introduction to Comparative Politics (3)
• PSYCH 1100 Introduction to Psychology (3)
• Choose one:
  • SOCIOL 1101 Introductory Sociology (3)
  • SOCIOL 1102 Social Found. of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Social Class (can overlap with GE Race, Ethnicity, & Gender Div.) (3)

World History Electives (6 Hours)

Choose two courses, one from two separate Regions

Africa:

• HISTORY 2301 African Peoples & Empires in World History
• HISTORY 2303 History of Contemporary Africa, 1960-Present
• HISTORY 3301 History of Modern West Africa, post-1800
• HISTORY 3302 Nationalism, Socialism, & Revolution
• HISTORY 3308 History of US-Africa Relations, 1900-Present

Latin America:

• HISTORY 2075 Introduction to U.S. Latino/a History
• HISTORY 2105 Latin America and the World
• HISTORY 2125 The History of Latin America Through Film
• HISTORY 3101 South America since Independence

Asia:

• HISTORY 2393 Contemporary India and South Asia
• HISTORY 2453 History of Zionism and Modern Israel
• HISTORY 2454 History of Anti-Semitism
• HISTORY 3404 Modern China 1750-1949
• HISTORY 3405 Contemporary China 1921-2000
• HISTORY 3411 Gender and Sexuality in China

Europe:

• HISTORY 3252 People on the Move: Migration in Mod. Europe
• HISTORY 3277 European Thought and Culture, 20th Century
• HISTORY 3253 20th Century Europe to 1950
• HISTORY 3254 Europe Since 1950
• HISTORY 3269 Eastern Europe in the 20th Century

Political Science Elective (3 Hours)

Choose ONE course

• POLITSC 2150 Voters and Elections
• POLITSC 2300 American Foreign Policy
• POLITSC 2367 Contemporary Issues in American Politics
• POLITSC 2400 Introduction to Political Theory
• POLITSC 4381 Comparative International Political Economy
• POLITSC 4597.02 Political Problems of the Contemporary World

Women’s History (3 Hours)

Choose ONE course

• HISTORY 2115 Women, Gender, Sexuality, & Race in Lat. Am.
• HISTORY 2600 Intro to Women & Gender History
• HISTORY 2610 A Survey of U.S. Women’s and Gender History
• HISTORY 3600 Studies in Women’s and Gender History
• HISTORY 3641 Women & Gender, Early Mod. Europe, 1450-1750
• HISTORY 3642 Women in Mod. Europe, 18th Century - Present

U.S. Minority History (3 Hours)

Choose ONE course

• AFAMAST/HISTORY 2080 African American History to 1877
• AFAMAST/HISTORY 2081 African American History from 1877
• HISTORY 2071 American Indian History of the U.S. Midwest
• HISTORY 2079 Asian American History
• HISTORY 3071 Native American History from Removal to the Present
• HISTORY 3080 Slavery in the United States
• HISTORY 3081 Free Blacks in Antebellum America
• HISTORY 3085 African American History through Contemporary Film
• HISTORY 3086 Black Women in Slavery and Freedom
• HISTORY 3089 Studies in African American History

Geography Elective (3 Hours)

Choose ONE course

• GEOG 2800 Our Global Environment
• GEOG 3597.01 World Urbanization
• GEOG 3597.03 Environmental Citizenship
• GEOG 3600 Space, Power and Political Geography
• GEOG 3701 The Making of the Modern World

Pre-Major Requirements (15 Hours)

• EDUCST 2189S First Education Experience Program (FEEP) (3)
• Choose one:
  • ESEPSY 5401 Adolescent Learning and Development in School Contexts (3)
  • HDFS 2420 Adolescence and Emerging Adult Development (3)
  • PSYCH 3551 Psychology of Adolescence (3)
• ESPHE 3206 School and Society (3)
• ESEPSY 2309 Psychological Perspectives on Education (3)
• Choose one:
  • EDUTL 5501 Inclusion: Philosophical, Social, and Practice Issues: General Student Body (3)
  • ESSPED 2251 Introduction to the Special Education Profession (3)
  • ESSPED 5651/6650 Introduction to Exceptional Children (3)

Major Requirements (29 Hours)

B- minimum grade required in all Major Requirements

• EDUTL 5442 Teaching Reading Across the Curriculum (3)
• EDUTL 5005 Equity, Diversity, and Justice in Education (can overlap with GE Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World) (3)
• EDUTL 5808 Social Studies Methods I (3)
• EDUTL 5809 Social Studies Methods II (3)
• EDUTL 3189.04 Field Experience (1)
• EDUTL 4189.04 Advanced Field Experience (2)
• EDUTL 5191.04 Supervised Student Teaching Internship: Integrated Social Studies (10)
• EDUTL 5195.04 Reflective Seminar: Integrated Social Studies (1+1+2)

Successful completion of the Ohio Assessment for Educators examinations is required prior to student teaching. Cumulative GPA of 2.75 and 2.75 content GPA required to be recommended for state of Ohio teacher licensure. A grade of B- or above in each course within the Major Requirements is required.

Total Hours: 121-138

Free Electives to reach 120 Hours: 0

Minimum of 120 credit hours required for degree completion. Total Hours range is based on requirement course choices and/or the number of credits that overlap between requirement areas. Students are encouraged to overlap as many credits as possible