3553 Foundations to Social Studies Education. Prerequisite: admission to Teacher Education program. Designed as a way to view social studies as an integrated body of knowledge while focusing on the various subject matter areas. (F, Sp)
4323 Teaching Social Studies in Elementary/Middle Schools. Prerequisite: 3553, EDEL 4101; corequisite: EDLT 4313, EDMA 4053, EDSC 4193, ILAC 4043. Designed to develop the basic pedagogical knowledge and skills required for effective planning, implementation and evaluation of social studies instruction in the elementary and middle school curriculum. Emphasizes application and analysis of systematic instructional design procedures, content and process objectives, and deductive, inductive, inquiry and values education strategies. (F, Sp)
4553 Foundations and Mentoring in Social Studies. Corequisite: 4563. Prerequisite: upper-level standing. Provides an opportunity to explore the main themes of the social sciences with limited teaching opportunities. (F, Sp)
G4563 Teaching Secondary School Social Studies. Prerequisite: nine hours of education, senior standing; corequisite: 4551. Curriculum and instructional strategies for teaching secondary school social studies with a focus on (a) appropriate methodologies, and (b) matching these methods to content and learners. The students will study a variety of classroom techniques and the assessment of such techniques on social studies teaching. (F, Sp) [V]
G5043 Analysis of Teaching and Learning. Prerequisite: graduate standing; Corequisite: Must be enrolled in EDUC 5920, Internship. An understanding of how to analyze teaching and learning using a variety of reflective techniques including journals, oral inquiries, classroom/school studies, and theoretical analysis. (F, Sp)
G5313 Research in Social Studies. Prerequisite: admission to Teacher Education program. Pre-service teachers and teacher practitioners will be given the opportunity to participate and/or conduct a major investigation into the problems, techniques, history, philosophy and other special issues of social studies.
G5323 Micro-teaching Practicum in Social Studies. Prerequisite: 5313. Pre-service teachers and teacher practitioners will be given the opportunity to strengthen their classroom techniques through the use of micro-teaching media (videotaped, reviewed, assessed presentations).
G5333 Seminar in Social Studies. Prerequisite: admission to Teacher Education program. Attend to particular and special problems associated with teaching social studies, as defined by pre-service teachers. Working with a problem-solving conceptualization, students will become engaged in the attempt to resolve difficulties encountered in the classroom.
G5343 Global Education. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Explores critical issues in global education across subject areas and teaching concepts. Implications for citizenship education are examined in depth. (Irreg.)
G5503 Social Studies Curriculum. Prerequisite: twelve hours of education, graduate standing. Analysis of criteria for organizing the elementary and middle school social studies curriculum, analysis and application of selected information processing, social and personal models of teaching designed to achieve the knowledge, skills, values and social participation objectives of the social studies curriculum. (Irreg.)
Updated: November 21, 2007