Secondary Licenses: Social Studies

The required courses for a 5-12 teaching license in social studies are listed below. All teaching candidates are advised that completion of the program within a four-year time frame requires careful planning. If you seek a license to teach, please seek early advising from the School of Education to plan your program.

The Licensure Requirements Form lists a full description of the required courses and tests.

Education courses:
EDU 3150 Schools and Society
EDU 3250 Educational Psychology
EDU 5620 Education and Cultural Diversity
EDU 5640 Families, Schools, and Communities
EDU 5690 Theory to Practice 5-8
EDU 5710 Teaching Literacy in the Middle and High Schools
EDU 5720 Exceptionality
EDU 5750 Teaching in Secondary Schools
ENG 5730 Teaching Social Studies in the Middle and High Schools
EDU 5900 Student Teaching Seminar
EDU 5950 Secondary Student Teaching

Social studies courses:
ANTH 1160 Introduction to Anthropology
Human or World Geography (taken through ACTC)
HIST 1300 U.S. History from 1865
One course in non-Western History
One course at the level of HIST 3011
PSCI 1110 American Government and Politics
PSYC 1330 General Psychology
SOC 1110 Introduction to Sociological Thinking
M&E 1210 Microeconomic Analysis
M&E 1220 Macroeconomic Analysis

Social studies concentration:
Six courses (at least one 5000 level), all selected from one of the social studies disciplines.

One of the appropriate discipline courses listed below:
This will count toward the six elective courses above
ANTH 5260 Anthropological Thought and Theory
GEOG 78 The Discipline of Geography (taken at Macalester)
M&E 1230 Statistics
HIST 3000 Workshop in History or HIST 3010 Historical Methods
PSCI 3540 Political Research and Analysis
PSYC 1340 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
SOC 3930 Social Research Methods

See the secondary social studies licensure requirements form for a full description of the required courses and tests.