2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

EDUC 407 Methods: Secondary Social Studies

Designed for secondary history education majors, the course provides an overview of secondary social studies education-history, issues, state and national standards. Standards-based instruction for secondary social studies will be examined and applied. Includes an emphasis on instructional technologies. Taken as part of a methods block, this course provides a 30-hour field experience in which candidates prepare, teach, and assess lessons.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Admission to teacher education; EDUC 316; EDUC 303; EDUC 306; EDUC 313

Corequisite

EDUC 398 or EDUC 399

Offered

Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. What is/are the Social Studies?
  2. Instruction in the Social Studies
  3. Assessment in the Social Studies
  4. Key Content in the Social Studies
  5. Technology and Teaching in the Social Studies