Academic Programs - Social Studies Education
The program of study for the Ed.S. degree should be planned as a logically organized whole, taking into consideration the student’s record in previous graduate and undergraduate coursework. A minimum of 30 semester hours beyond the master’s degree must be shown on the official program of study.
An official program of study form should be filed when the student has completed four or five courses. This form is forwarded to the Department’s Graduate Coordinator for approval and then sent to the Dean of the Graduate School.
In developing a program of study, the student’s advisory committee considers such things as a student’s career goals, previous coursework and academic experiences, and particular interests, as well as degree requirements. The program of study should include courses distributed according to the following minimums:
A. Educational Foundations: 3 to 6 semester hours
B. Curriculum and Instruction: 9 to 12 semester hours
C. History and social sciences: 12-15 semester hours
D. Research Methods: 3 semester hours
Representative Courses
The listing below shows a variety of approved potential courses for each area of the program of study. Advisor-accepted substitutions for approved courses should be documented with a note to the student’s Departmental file.
A. Approved Educational Foundations Courses:
EFND 7010 Comparative and International Education
EFND 7020 History of Education in the United States to 1865
EFND 7030 History of Education in the United States Since 1865
EFND 7100 Gender and Education
EFND 7110 The African American Educational Experience
EFND 7120 Sociological Theories of Education
EFND 7130 Democracy and Education
EFND 7140 The Social and Cultural Contexts of Teaching
EFND 7150 Anthropology of Education (alternatively, may be used as 1 ANT content course)
EFND 8010 Philosophy of Education
EFND 8040 Pragmatism and Education
EFND 8060 Social and Political Philosophies of Education
EPSY 6010 Foundations of Human Development for Education
EPSY 6060 Foundations of Motivation for Education
EPSY 6800 Foundations of Cognition for Education
SOCI 6060 Sociology of Education
B. Approved Curriculum and Instruction Courses:
ESOC 6100 Teaching United States History
ESOC 6350 Social Science Curriculum in Secondary Schools
ESOC 6360 Methods of Teaching Social Science in Secondary Schools
ESOC 6380 Computer Technology Applications in Social Science Education
ESOC 6400 Teaching Social Studies in the Middle Grades
ESOC 7010 Teaching of Geography
ESOC 7050 Problems of Teaching Secondary Social Studies
ESOC 7080 Curriculum Planning in Social Sciences
ESOC 7200 Economic Education in the Social Science Curriculum
ESOC 7420 Social Studies for the Young Child
ESOC 7520 Teaching Politics, Government, and Citizenship
ESOC 8010 History of Social Studies Education
ESOC 8250 Values Education for Citizenship
C. History and Social Science Content Courses:
Students may concentrate in a single discipline or in a combination of history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science, economics, or geography. Transcripts will be reviewed carefully for their content in these areas. Arts and science courses are required unless substituted with approved content centered alternatives offered in our own Department. No program will be approved with fewer than 15 semester hours of history and social sciences courses.
HIST 6XXX and higher (ESOC 6100 may be substituted for 1 HIST content course)
GEOG 6XXX and higher (ESOC 7010 may be substituted for 1 GEOG content course)
POLS 6XXX and higher (ESOC 7520 may be substituted for 1 POLS content course)
ECON 6XXX and higher (ESOC 7200 may be substituted for 1 ECON content course)
ANTH 6XXX and higher (EFND 7150 may be substituted for 1 ANTH content course)
PSYC 6XXX and higher
SOCI 6XXX and higher
D. Approved Research Methods Courses:
ESOC 6990 Research Seminar in Social Science Education
ERSH 6200 Methods of Research in Education
ERSH 7400 Qualitative Research in Education
