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  • Secondary Licenses: Social Studies

    Social Studies majors pursuing a MN teaching license at the 5-12 level must complete the course requirements for a BA in Social Studies. 

    The required education and content courses for a MN 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. Please seek early advising from the School of Education and Leadership to plan your program. 

    Contact an Undergraduate Teacher Education Faculty advisor for the licensure requirements associated with this license and other important information.

    Education Courses

    • EDU 1150 Schools and Society
    • EDU 1150 Schools and Society - LAB
    • EDU 1250 Educational Psychology
    • EDU 3260 Theory to Practice 
    • EDU 3500 Diversity and Education
    • EDU 3500 Diversity and Education - LAB
    • GED 7858 Teaching Social Studies in the Middle and Secondary School Part I
    • GED 7871 Teaching Literacy in the Middle and Secondary Schools (5-12)
    • GED 7872 Exceptionality
    • GED 7873 Teaching Social Studies in the Middle and Secondary School Part II
    • GED 0050 Student Teaching Seminar
    • GED 7895 Student Teaching Secondary (5-12)

    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
    • ECON 1310 Microeconomic Analysis
    • ECON 1320 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)
    • ECON 1330 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
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