Secondary Certification in Citizenship Education
(Traditional Track—for students graduating before January 1, 2013.)
The College offers a program for students seeking certification to teach social studies in the secondary schools. The program includes three required components: the social studies core, the secondary education core, and a major in history or political science (graduation requirements for these majors are noted in this catalog under the History and Political Science department). There is no major in Citizenship Education. Dr. James H. Broussard is the coordinator of the social studies and citizenship education certification program. Students who will not graduate by January 1, 2013 should follow the Revised Citizenship Education track.
Required courses:
| This course examines economics from both the microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives. The course covers the basic principles of economics including the problem of scarcity, economics systems and models, supply and demand, market equilibrium, competition and monopoly, the banking system, monetary policy and inflation, fiscal policy, deficits, economic growth, and international trade. |
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| A study of the development of civilizations from the development of human civilizations to the end of the first era of empire building in India, China, and the Mediterranean. Topics include the river valley civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China; the formation of great philosophies and religious traditions in Asia and Greece; and the first empires in the Mediterranean world, India, and China. |
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| This course is a survey of modern history, from ca. 1400 to the present. The course will focus on one of the most important aspects of modern history, the processes of colonization and decolonization. The course is framed by three main areas of inquiry. First students explore why it was the Europeans who expanded over the globe from 1500 to 1900. The second theme is the cultural encounter that resulted from European expansion. The final section of the course deals with the twentieth-century. The following themes are covered: colonial resistance, the three-world order, and globalization. |
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| The major events and developments in America from Columbus to the Civil War, with emphasis on the creation of a distinctive American society from the interaction of different cultures, ethnic groups, and ideas. Major themes include the transformation of European cultural ideas in colonial America and the impact of republican ideology, democratization, and the spread of the market economy between the Revolution and the Civil War. |
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| American history from 1865 until the present. Students learn about important themes in recent history such as law and order, native land rights, protest movements, foreign policy and its critics, and the rise of corporate power and its economic and political consequences. |
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| An introduction to historical geography and to the concept of historical-geographic change over time in various parts of the world, focusing on prominent scholars and scholarly communities that examine key aspects of contemporary and human physical landscapes, especially with regard to agriculture, land use, urbanization, transportation, settlement, industry, migration, and disease. |
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| This course provides a survey of key developments, institutions, and issues in American politics. Topics include the ideas that shaped the original American political system, the presidency; Congress and federal courts; the operation of political parties and interest groups; domestic and foreign policy debates; and contemporary issues such as civil rights and affirmative action. |
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| This is an introduction to the study of comparative politics: the comparison of political systems in order to understand how and why these systems function differently. The course is built around three fundamental questions: What is comparative politics? What kinds of phenomena do we compare? What are the major theoretical approaches that guide our studies? We also examine distinctions between the "developing" and the "developed" worlds, and between authoritarian and democratic political regimes. |
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| This course is designed to introduce students to the study of international relations. The course hinges on a series of questions: Who are the principal actors in the international system? What are the theoretical ways of discerning why these actors do what they do? How has the international system evolved into its present form? What are the central issues confronting the international system? |
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| Governmental institutions, characteristics of state and local political systems and the major inter-governmental problems in state and local relations with federal government. |
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Secondary Education Courses
| Supervised field experiences in appropriate school settings. Designed to offer practical experiences for prospective secondary teachers. |
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| A study of the basic principles and procedures for middle school and secondary classroom management and instruction |
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| A continuation of the basic principles and procedures for middle school and secondary school classroom management and instruction. |
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| Students spend an entire semester in an area school under the supervision of a cooperating teacher. |
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Students must conform to state guidelines that require two math courses and an English
or American literature course in addition to the general education requirements.
Students must apply to the certification program after completing at least 48 credits
(including the math and English courses) with a 3.0 grade point average and must
maintain that average in order to proceed to student teaching and certification.