History - History/Social Studies Secondary Education Concentration, BA

Major in History

Alex Bielakowski, PhD,  Coordinator
N1021, 713-221-8994

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 WILL:

1.        Create and execute a research agenda that analyzes primary and secondary sources.

2.        Apply research approaches and historical methodology in written assignments.

3.        Defend their historical research in oral presentations with or without visual components.

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.