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:
  • TLTED 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

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

To be recommended for state of Ohio teacher licensure students must maintain a B- minimum grade in all major requirements and a B- or higher grade in student teaching. Students must also maintain a 2.75 cumulative GPA and a 2.75 content GPA.

Successful completion of the Ohio Assessment for Educators examinations is required prior to student teaching.

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