The curriculum changes for students pursuing their history bachelor's with an adolescence education concentration. The program, which adheres to New York State Education Department standards and guidelines and prepares students to teach at the secondary level, develops professional competence through a sequence of courses that integrate theory and practice, as well as through 100 hours of fieldwork in the middle and secondary schools prior to student teaching.
History/Adolescence Education Required Courses (12 Credits) | Campus |
| HIS 100 Survey of Western Civilization I |   |
| HIS 102 Survey of Western Civilization II | |
| HIS 170 American Heritage I | |
| HIS 172 American Heritage II | |
| HIS 276 New York: State and City | |
| HIS 152 Contemporary International Problems OR HIS 312 United States Foreign Relations Since 1914 | |
| HIS 410 Seminar in Historical Methodology | |
| HIS 411 Senior Thesis | |
| HIS 422 Historiography - Seminar | |
Students must take 6 credits at the 300 level | |
| SPC 102 Speech Communication | |
| SPC 218 Normal Language Development | |
| ECO 120 Macroeconomics | |
| ECO 278 Economic Geography | |
| POL 102 Introduction to Political Science | |
| POL 103 American Government | |
| POL 104 State and Local Government | |
| SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology | |
| EDU 115 Educational Psychology | |
| PSY 220 Adolescent Psychology | |
| CS 121 Psychology of the Exceptional Child | |
| EDU 234 Sociological and Philosophical Foundations of Education | |
| EDU 360 Methods of Secondary Education | |
| EDU 363 Methods of Teaching History and Social Studies in Secondary School | |
| EDU 473 Supervised Teaching in Secondary Schools | |
History Concentration for Child Study Majors | |
Child study majors are required to complete 30 credits, 12 of which may be at the 100 level. Students should choose at least 9 credits in American history, 9 in European history and 6 in global history. | |
