Social Studies Secondary Teaching B.A. – Africana Studies Emphasis
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Location: Candelaria 0140
Telephone: 970.351.2685
Website: http://www.unco.edu/hss/africana-studies/
Advising Information:
Students must consult with their assigned major advisor each semester prior to registering.
To find your advisor, log into ursa.unco.edu; go to 'Student' tab and click 'View Student Information' link. 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 level to be social studies teachers. With increasing student diversity in our schools, both in Colorado and the nation, districts are desperate to hire teachers who are well grounded in curriculum and approaches that meet the needs of culturally diverse learners and their families. The secondary education emphasis in Africana Studies effectively prepares preservice teachers to teach social studies to culturally diverse students at the middle and secondary levels. Students approach learning and curriculum from an interdisciplinary focus, one which includes contributions and perspectives of people of African American origin. In addition to taking coursework in Africana Studies, History, Economics, Geography and Political Science, students will participate in the UNC partner school program through student teaching and field experience.
Program Admission Requirements:
Academic Good Standing.
Program Requirements:
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To be recommended for admission to PTEP students must complete a minimum of 12 semester credits in the major (at least 9 credits at UNC) with a 2.75 grade point average or higher in those courses taken at UNC and counting toward the major. Africana Studies majors must successfully complete at least 27 credits in the major with a 2.75 grade point average or above in courses taken at UNC prior to applying for student teaching and complete SOSC 341 with a grade of “C” or better (C- is not acceptable).
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All AFS courses numbered 300 or higher include a research and writing component. Only 6 credits of AFS prefixes may be counted toward the Liberal Arts Core.
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Majors must obtain a grade of “C” or better (C- is not acceptable) in all AFS courses taken at UNC. Majors receiving a grade of "D" or lower in an AFS course must retake the course - or an equivalent approved by the academic advisor - and receive a grade of “C” or better (C- is not acceptable) to have the course counted toward the major.
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A minimum of 21 semester credits of the total 33 credits required for the major must be at the 300-400 level.
PTEP Program Requirements:
Teacher candidates who complete an approved content degree and the UNC professional teacher education program, as well as pass the appropriate Colorado Department of Education designated PRAXIS exam (if applicable), will be eligible for recommendation from UNC for a Colorado Department of Education teaching license.
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.
Program Recommendations:
Students are strongly encouraged to acquire secondary language proficiency.
Degree Requirements — 125 Credits
Degree Requirements
1. Required Specified LAC — 30 credits
LAC area 4 — History
| AFS 100 | Introduction to Africana Studies | 3 |
| AFS 101 | Development of Black Identity | 3 |
| AFS 201 | African American History I | 3 |
| HIST 100 | Survey of American History from Its Beginnings to 1877 | 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 |
LAC area 5.a. — Economic and Political Systems
LAC area 5.b. — Geography
LAC area 5.c. — Human Behavior and Social Systems
Remaining LAC — 22 credits
See “Liberal Arts Core ”.
NOTE: Students need to select a course from LAC Area 7 that also counts for LAC area 3.
2. Required Major — 35 credits
Take all of the following courses:
| AFS 310 | African Americans and U.S. Education | 3 |
| AFS 340 | The Black Family | 3 |
| AFS 395 | Aspects of the African-American Experience | 3 |
| AFS 399 | Community Study Project | 1- 4 |
| AFS 420 | African American Leadership and Politics | 3 |
| AFS 456 | The Black Church and Religious Traditions | 3 |
| AFS 490 | Seminar in Africana Studies | 3 |
| ECON 362 | Economic History of the United States | 3 |
Choose one of the following courses:
| HIST 338 | Advanced Overview of American History | 3 |
| HIST 396 | World History | 3 |
| AFS 450 | African American History 1896-2016: From Homer Plessy to Barack Obama | 3 |
Choose one of the following courses:
Choose two of the following courses:
| HIST 110 | African Civilization | 3 |
| MCS 101 | Multiculturalism in the United States: Concepts and Issues | 3 |
3. Required PTEP — 38 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 credits taken concurrently)
| STEP 363 | Clinical Experience: Secondary | 2 |
| EDRD 340 | Academic Language/Literacy Development in the Content Areas at the Secondary Level | 3 |
| ET 449 | Integrating Technologies into Secondary Education Pedagogy | 3 |
| SOSC 341 | Teaching Secondary Social Studies | 3 |
EDRD 340: maybe taken outside of Phase III
Phase IV (14 credits).