Social Studies BA

Courses are taught by all the members of the History and Social Sciences Department as well as by faculty in economics and sociology.

The program gives you substantial experience in high school classrooms. You’ll take four practica in area schools before your student-teaching semester.

Upper-division classes are specially designed to get you engaged. Methods, Revisions and Lies in American History features weekly student panel discussions. The 1960s (American Decade) draws on films and music from the 1960s with discussions concentrating on the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and the counter-culture.

Because few of the required courses are sequenced, the major offers tremendous flexibility, which makes it easy to combine it with another major.

You’ll take introductory courses in American and World history, geography, political science, economics and sociology. To ensure you get breadth while still specializing, we require social science courses, American or European history courses, and global courses, which may be in history or social science.

In addition, you’ll take several general education courses, including Instructional Technology, to prepare you for teaching. A Social Studies methods course covers techniques for teaching social studies in high school.