Description
The major provides students a comprehensive program for seeking teaching licensure in Social Studies. The content area for the major is administered by the History Department, while the Minor in Secondary Education is administered through the College of Public Affairs and Education.
What careers can this major prepare you for?
While most students in the program become secondary Social Studies teachers, others go on to graduate study in history, law, library science, international work, the foreign service, the ministry, business, government and archival and museum work.
What skills are developed within this major?
The primary mission of the Social Studies major is to provide students with the content competency to teach Social Studies in secondary schools. It forms the content knowledge basis for students to initiate teaching professions and provides the necessary critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and academic judgment skills upon which to embark on a lifetime of intellectual growth.
Teaching Licensure
A comprehensive program for students seeking teaching licensure in Social Studies is administered through the College of Public Affairs and Education. Contact the CSUteach Program for education courses required for undergraduate and post-baccalaureate secondary Teacher Licensure Programs (216-687-4625, JH 170). See also Education, Adolescent and Young Adult with Licensure, Grades 7-12 .
Advising
Contact Dr. Shelley Rose, (216) 687-3935 | shelley.rose@csuohio.edu, or the History Department, (216) 687-3920 | history@csuohio.edu. Students are urged to meet with their assigned faculty advisor at least once every semester.
The Social Studies major will have an academic advisor in the History Department in the College of Arts and Sciences as assigned by the department. Those seeking a teaching license should have an advisor for education course work in the College of Public Affairs and Education.
This interdisciplinary major is administered by the Department of History and is primarily intended for students seeking secondary licensure. It provides comprehensive training in history and related social-studies fields taught in Ohio secondary schools. Interested students should also consider pursuing academic major(s) and/or academic minor(s) in history, political science, or economics.