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Undergraduate 2019-2020

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:

  1. Liberal Arts Core (LAC) Credits
  2. Required Major Credits
  3. 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:

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 100Introduction to Africana Studies

3

AFS 101Development of Black Identity

3

AFS 201African American History I

3

HIST 100Survey of American History from Its Beginnings to 1877

3

AFS 100 and AFS 101: Also count towards LAC Area 8.

Choose one of the following courses:

HIST 120Western Civilization from Ancient Greece to 1689

3

HIST 121Western Civilization from 1689 to the Present

3

LAC area 5.a. — Economic and Political Systems

ECON 203Principles of Macroeconomics

3

ECON 205Principles of Microeconomics

3

PSCI 100United States National Government

3

LAC area 5.b. — Geography

GEOG 100World Geography

3

LAC area 5.c. — Human Behavior and Social Systems

SOC 100Principles of Sociology

3

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 310African Americans and U.S. Education

3

AFS 340The Black Family

3

AFS 395Aspects of the African-American Experience

3

AFS 399Community Study Project

1- 4

AFS 420African American Leadership and Politics

3

AFS 456The Black Church and Religious Traditions

3

AFS 490Seminar in Africana Studies

3

ECON 362Economic History of the United States

3

AFS 399: Take at least 2 credits

Choose one of the following courses:

HIST 338Advanced Overview of American History

3

HIST 396World History

3

AFS 450African American History 1896-2016: From Homer Plessy to Barack Obama

3

Choose one of the following courses:

AFS 102The Black Woman in America

3

AFS 104Survey of Africa

3

AFS 202African American History II

3

AFS 205Survey of African American Literature

3

AFS 240Dynamics of Racism

3

AFS 360Routes of Black Music

3

HIST 110African Civilization

3

AFS 202: (LAC 4)

Choose two of the following courses:

HIST 110African Civilization

3

MCS 101Multiculturalism in the United States: Concepts and Issues

3

HIST 110: (LAC 4)

MCS 101: (LAC 8)

3. Required PTEP — 38 credits

Phase I (5 credits taken concurrently).

STEP 161Observation and Analysis of Secondary Teaching I

2

EDF 366Conceptions of Schooling: Context and Process

3

Phase II (8 credits taken concurrently)

STEP 262Observation and Analysis of Secondary Teaching II

2

EDSE 360Adaptation, Modification, and Integration of Curriculum for the Secondary Exceptional Learner

3

PSY 349Educational Psychology for Secondary Teachers

3

Phase III (11 credits taken concurrently)

STEP 363Clinical Experience: Secondary

2

EDRD 340Academic Language/Literacy Development in the Content Areas at the Secondary Level

3

ET 449Integrating Technologies into Secondary Education Pedagogy

3

SOSC 341Teaching Secondary Social Studies

3

EDRD 340: maybe taken outside of Phase III

Phase IV (14 credits).

STEP 464Secondary Student Teaching

1-14