History B.A. – Secondary Teaching Emphasis - Licensure: Social Studies (Grades 7-12)
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Contact: Diana Kelly, Administrative Assistant
Location: Ross Hall 3270
Telephone: 970.351.2905
Fax: 970.351.2199
Website: www.unco.edu/history
Advising Information:
Students must consult with their assigned major advisor each semester prior to registering.
Assigned advisor is available through the Ursa login; ursa.unco.edu; under Student tab Academic Profile channel and is term specific. If no advisor is listed, contact the major program for advisor information.
The program consists of three parts:
- Liberal Arts Core (LAC) Credits
- Required Major Credits
- Professional Teacher Education Program (PTEP) Credits
Program Description:
This program fulfills an important role in training teachers at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition to its emphasis in content areas of history and social science, it participates in the UNC/partner school program and the student-teaching experience/placement for its students. Experienced history faculty are regularly assigned the responsibility of observing our student teachers in the field. The end result of a student's study is a senior seminar completed under the direction of a faculty advisor during the senior year in residence.
A graduate with a bachelor's degree in history and who receives endorsement in the social studies licensure area is qualified to teach in the secondary schools and to pursue graduate study in history. Additionally, with a major in history a student may seek licensure for middle school teaching.
Program Admission Requirements:
Academic Good Standing
Program Requirements:
- History majors must obtain a grade of “C” or better (C- is not acceptable) in all courses required for the major. Majors receiving a grade of "C-" or lower must retake the course -- or an equivalent approved by the academic advisor -- and receive a grade of "C" or better to have the course counted toward the major.
- All History majors must take HIST 280 either before or concurrently with their first 300 level HIST course.
- All history courses numbered 300 or higher include a research and writing component.
- Only 3 credits of HIST prefixes may be counted toward the LAC.
PTEP Program Requirements:
If you are seeking licensure in your program area, the following items are required to complete your program.
- Completion of Application for Initial Admission to PTEP
- Completion of Full Admission to PTEP
- Completion of Application for Student Teaching
- Completion of content specific PRAXIS test prior to Student Teaching
- Candidates may not take extra courses with Student Teaching without prior approval from the Program Coordinator and the STE Director.
- All PTEP Field Experiences and methods courses need to be successfully completed prior to Student Teaching.
- Student Teaching outside the supervision of UNC Faculty may or may not be approved.
- Teacher Candidates will not be placed in a school where they were once students or where they have a close relative attending and/or working.
- Teacher education and educator preparation licensure programs do not accept Professional Teacher Education Program (PTEP) or field based courses that are more than ten years old. PLEASE NOTE: Teacher Candidates have the right to petition this policy at the discretion of the program coordinator.
Please work with your content advisor to determine when these requirements will be completed throughout your program.
Degree Requirements — 124 Credits
Degree Requirements
1. Required Specified LAC — 12 credits
LAC area 4 — History
NOTE: One of the 100-level HIST courses listed under the Required Major section below will count towards LAC credit in this category.
LAC area 5.a. — Economic and Political Systems
| ECON 203 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| PSCI 100 | United States National Government | 3 |
LAC area 5.b. — Geography
LAC area 7 — International Studies
| ANT 110 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | 3 |
Remaining LAC — 25 credits
See “Liberal Arts Core”.
2. Required Major — 24 credits
Take both of the following courses:
| HIST 100 | Survey of American History from Its Beginnings to 1877 | 3 |
| HIST 101 | Survey of American History from 1877 to the Present | 3 |
Choose one of the following courses:
| HIST 120 | Western Civilization from Ancient Greece to 1689 | 3 |
| HIST 121 | Western Civilization from 1689 to the Present | 3 |
Choose one of the following courses:
| HIST 110 | African Civilization | 3 |
| HIST 112 | Asian Civilization I: From Prehistory to 1500 | 3 |
| HIST 113 | Asian Civilizations II: From 1500 to the Present | 3 |
| HIST 118 | History of Mexico | 3 |
Take both of the following courses:
Required Social Science Support Courses — 6 credits
| | Choose two 200-level or above courses in ECON, GEOG, or PSCI | 6 |
Remaining Major — 24 credits
In addition to the required courses, each major will also take 24 additional credits of electives at the 200-level or above.
- Twelve of these must be in a concentration area (Europe; United States; Africa/Asia/Latin America).
- Of the remaining 12 credits, 6 must be in each of the other areas.
- For example, if the major's concentration is in Europe, students must take 6 credits in African/Asian/Latin American history, and 6 credits in United States history.
- At least 18 of the 24 hour total must be taken from courses numbered 300 or 400.
3. Required PTEP — 39 credits
Phase I (5 credits taken concurrently).
| STEP 161 | Observation and Analysis of Secondary Teaching I | 2 |
| EDF 366 | Conceptions of Schooling: Context and Process | 3 |
Phase II (8 credits taken concurrently)
| STEP 262 | Observation and Analysis of Secondary Teaching II | 2 |
| EDSE 360 | Adaptation, Modification, and Integration of Curriculum for the Secondary Exceptional Learner | 3 |
| PSY 349 | Educational Psychology for Secondary Teachers | 3 |
Phase III (11-14 credits taken concurrently)
| STEP 363 | Clinical Experience: Secondary | 2 |
| EDRD 340 | Developing Language and Literacy in the Content Areas | 3 |
| ET 449 | Integrating Technologies into Secondary Education Pedagogy | 3 |
| HIST 400 | Teaching History in the Secondary Curriculum | 1 |
| SOSC 341 | Teaching Secondary Social Studies | 3 |
EDRD 340: (may be taken outside of Phase III)
Phase IV (14 credits).
The History Secondary Education major should follow the phase program delineated by the STEP program.
No history major may apply for admission to the PTEP program until completion of at least 15 semester hours in the major. At least 9 of these hours must have been taken at the University of Northern Colorado. To be admitted to the Secondary PTEP in History (Phase III), a student must have a B- grade point average in courses counting toward the major and taken at UNC.
Before being permitted to apply for student teaching, a history major must have completed successfully 27 hours in the major and have at least a B- grade point average in major courses taken at UNC.
PTEP students majoring in history are required to take:
| SOSC 341 | Teaching Secondary Social Studies | 3 |
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| HIST 400 | Teaching History in the Secondary Curriculum | 1 |