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Secondary Teacher Preparation Program in Social Science

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The LMU Secondary Teacher Preparation Program in Social Science is designed for students who are seeking history and social science teaching positions in grades 6-8 or 9-12 in school settings that are departmentalized.

This program includes courses both in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and the School of Education, and it leads towards the 2042 Preliminary Single-Subject Teaching Credential granted by the State of California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

Students are able to complete the LMU Secondary Teacher Preparation Program in Social Science at the same time that they complete a B.A. degree with a major either in History or Political Science. The LMU Secondary Teacher Preparation Program in Social Science has been approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

Please contact the Center for Undergraduate Teacher Preparation for information about all available Secondary Teacher Preparation Programs. All students interested in teaching English in middle schools or high schools should meet with their departmental advisors as soon as possible and must also attend a mandatory School of Education Undergraduate Information Session. Please call 310.338.7845 to obtain the next scheduled meeting time and to confirm attendance.

In order to meet the academic requirements of the LMU Secondary Teacher Preparation Program in Social Science, students must complete the following courses granting either 141 semester hours of credit for a Political Science major or 120 semester hours of credit for a History major.

Required Core Courses in the Secondary Teacher Preparation program in Social Science (27 semester hours)

World History

HIST 300	History of Global Encounters before 1500
HIST 301	History of Global Encounters after 1500
POLS 155	Comparative Foreign Govs

United States History

HIST 161	Young America, 1607-1900
HIST 162	Contemporary America

California History

HIST 366

History of California

(also meets the LMU American Cultures Studies course requirement)

Principles of Democracy

POLS 135

Contemp. American Politics

Principles of Economics

ECON 100

Economic Literacy

Principles of Geography

GEOG 100

Human Geography

Required Extended Studies Courses in the Secondary Teacher Preparation Program in Social Science (15 semester hours)

EDLC 400	Sociocultural Analysis of Educ.
EDES 485	Teaching Social Studies in Secondary Schools
PHIL 160	Philosophy of Human Nature
PHIL 320	Ethics
THST 180	Religions of the World

Required Courses in the Secondary Teacher Preparation Program in Social Science Needed to Complete Either a History or a Political Science Major (HIST Majors: 24 semester hours; POLS Majors: 48 semester hours)

Both History and Political Science majors choose either HIST 152: Modern Middle East, HIST 172: Modern Latin America, HIST 182: Modern Asia, or HIST 192: Contemporary Africa

POLS 210: Empirical Approaches to Politics (a requirement for POLS majors); HIST 310: History and Historians, or HIST 330: History as Detective (a requirement for HIST majors) (HIST and POLS majors)

Political Science majors must complete POLS 220: Foundations of Political Thought.

(POLS Majors)

Both History and Political Science majors choose five upper division HIST courses. Not more than half of the total upper division semester hours may be taken from one of the following areas: a) Europe; b) United States; or c) Africa, Asia, Latin America, and modern Middle East

15 s.h.

(HIST and POLS Majors)

Political Science majors choose five upper division POLS courses, at least one course in three of these five groups: Political Thought, U.S. Politics, Comparative Politics, and International and World Politics.

20 s.h.

(POLS Majors)

History majors choose one HIST 500-level senior seminar. Political Science majors choose

one POLS 500-level seminar.

3/4 s.h.

(HIST and POLS Majors)

Total:

HIST Majors: 24 semester hours

POLS Majors: 48 semester hours

Education Courses Required for the 2042 Preliminary Single-Subject Teaching Credential (not included in the Extended Studies Courses of the Secondary Teacher Preparation Program in Social Science) (24 semester hours)

EDES 401	Educ. Psych. for the Childhood and Adolescent Years
EDCE 412	Secondary Directed Teaching
EDLC 414	Theories of Second Lang. Acq.
EDLC 425	Methods in English Lang. Dev. and Specially Designed Acad. Instruction in English
EDES 428	Reading/Language Arts for Single Subject Teachers
EDSS 440	Intro. to the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Student with Exceptional Needs

LMU Core Curriculum Courses (not included in the Core and Extended Studies Courses of the Secondary Teacher Preparation Program in Social Science) (24 semester hours for POLS majors and 30 semester hours for HIST majors)

College Writing

Communications/Critical Thinking

Critical Arts

Creative Arts

Literature

Mathematics

Science and Technology

Theology (upper division)

Electives (HIST majors)

Total semester hours that a student needs to complete in order to meet the coursework requirements of the LMU Secondary Preparation Program in Social Science, a B.A. degree with a major in either History or Political Science, and the California 2042 Preliminary Single-Subject Teaching Credential: