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Dec 11, 2024
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2023-2024 UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
History - History/Social Studies Secondary Education Concentration, BA
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Major in History
Austin Allen, PhD, Interim Coordinator
N1007, 713-221-5217
A Bachelor of Arts in History provides students with the intellectual discipline as well as the research, analytical, and communication skills that will prepare them for careers in teaching, government, non-profit organizations, and the private sector. Students interested in pursuing a professional degree in law, history, library studies, public history, or other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities will find the skills offered by the History Degree to be particularly useful to them in their future studies.
Program Learning Outcomes
Graduates who earn a BA in History will be able to:
- Recognize and identify the significance of historical development in the United States.
- Recognize and identify the significance of historical global change.
- Recognize context and make careful generalizations based on factual evidence.
- Use research skills to effectively locate and present competing historical interpretations of a subject.
- Apply academic conventions of historical writing, including the development of clear and convincing compositions and the application of proper source attribution.
- Communicate effectively and succinctly through informed spoken discourse.
NOTE: Students must select either the standard concentration or the education concentration in order to complete a BA in History.
Degree Requirements
To complete a BA in History with a Secondary Education Concentration, students must satisfy the “College of Humanities and Social Sciences ” and fulfill the coursework listed below. Note that Student Teaching courses, SED 4301 and SED 4302 , require 15-week full-time supervised work in grades 8-12 (may be one or more grades). Courses Identified as belonging to the same Professional Development (PO) series must be taken concurrently. At least one semester prior to taking PED 3305 students should take all three sections of THEA and submit the “Form to request admission to the 8-12 teacher certification program to the Department of Urban Education.
Students majoring in History/Social Studies Secondary Education Concentration or the History Secondary Education Concentration must be admitted to the Department of Urban Education’s Teacher Candidacy program (at UHD) in order to take required courses in Professional Development I, II, and III. Admission to Teacher Candidacy at UHD for students pursuing either of these history tracks requires (1) core completion, (2) preparatory requirement completion; (3) a minimum of 24 earned SCHs of HIST courses; and (4) an overall GPA of 2.5 or higher.
Preparatory Requirements
(Courses in this area may be reused from the common core)
6-8 Hours of Foreign Language
Complete 6-8 semester credit hours in the same foreign language. Semester credit hours are contingent upon placement exams, courses taken, or transfer credit. Semester credit hours bypassed by placement must be made up in elective credits. Hours earned In excess of three semester credit hours for any foreign language course may be applied to the elective area.
3 Hours in ECON:
Complete 3 SCHs in any Economics course.
3 Hours in GEOG:
Complete 3 SCHS in any Geography course.
9 Upper-Level Hours in Non-U.S. HIST:
Note:
HIST 3342 History In Film, HIST 3399 Directed Studies, and HIST 4390 Special Topics and courses with non-U.S. topics may also count In this area.
9 Upper-Level Hours in U.S. HIST:
Note:
HIST 3342 History In Film, HIST 3399 Directed Studies, and HIST 4390 Special Topics and courses with non-U.S. topics may also count In this area.
Professional Development Courses
NOTE:
**student Teaching courses require 15-week full-time supervised work In grades 8 -12 (may be one or more grades).
Free Electives
Majors are required to complete a sufficient number of elective semester credit hours so that their entire coursework, including the above requirements, totals 120 semester credit hours. Upper or lower-level courses may be applied to this area, with the exceptions described under the “Requirements for CHSS Majors “ section.
Teacher Certification Checklist
- Undergraduate degree plan completed
- TexES Content test passed
- TexES PPR test passed
- A cumulative GPA of 2.5 (undergraduate degree)
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