History Major with Teacher Licensure (9-12) Concentration at Gardner-Webb University is state-approved by the North Carolina State Board of Education.
General Education Requirements
*General Education Courses
Students seeking teacher licensure in Social Studies need to earn credit for the following courses:
Foundational Experiences, History category: take HIST 101
Exploratory Experiences
Human Experience category: take ECON 203, HIST 102 or POLS 202; the other two courses must be taken as free--not major--electives
Global Community category: take SSCI 205
If not taken as General Education requirements, these courses must be taken as free--not major--elective courses.
Major Requirements
Methods Course (3 hours)
All History majors must earn credit for
HIST 200: Introduction to Historical Study. This course should be taken as soon after declaring a History major as possible.
| HIST 200 | Introduction to Historical Study | 3 |
American History (9 credit hours)
Select three courses (9 credit hours) from the following list:
| HIST 244 | Survey of United States History to 1877 | 3 |
| HIST 245 | Survey of United States History from 1877 to the Present | 3 |
| HIST 314 | Making America: Colonization, Revolution and the U.S. Constitution | 3 |
| HIST 318 | Civil War and Reconstruction | 3 |
| HIST 324/RELI 324 | American Christianity | 3 |
| HIST 325 | The History of the New South | 3 |
| HIST 345 | North Carolina History | 3 |
| HIST 401 | Slavery in the Atlantic | 3 |
| HIST 402 | The Long Civil Rights Movement | 3 |
| HIST 411 | Diplomatic History of the United States | 3 |
| HIST 431 | Special Topics: American History | 3 |
HIST 245 may be used to meet both the major requirement and the General Education Human Experiences requirement; however, the course's 3 credit hours are only counted in the major.
European History (6 credit hours)
Select two courses (6 credit hours) from the following list:
Non-Western History (3 credit hours)
Select one course (3 credit hours) from the following list:
HIST Electives (12 credit hours)
Select four courses (12 credit hours) of HIST courses at the 200 level or higher. Courses only count towards meeting requirements in one category (American, European, Non-Western or Elective).
Required Professional Education Minor (32 hours)
Students will not be permitted to complete more than 50% of the Professional Education minor (excluding student teaching) until they are formally admitted to the Teacher Education Program, as outlined in the College of Education’s section of this Catalog (entitled “Admission to the Teacher Education Program”). All candidates must be fully admitted into the Teacher Education Program a minimum of two full semesters prior to the semester in which they intend to student teach. Ideally, students should interview no later than the end of the first semester of their junior year.
| PSYC 303 | Educational Psychology | 3 |
| EDUC 250 | Teaching in the 21st Century Schools | 4 |
| EDUC 316 | Teaching Reading and Writing in the Content Areas | 3 |
| EDUC 350 | Diverse Populations in 21st Century Schools | 4 |
| EDUC 440 | Classroom Management | 3 |
| SSED 432 | Instructional Methods for Secondary Social Studies | 3 |
| EDUC 450 | Student Teaching | 12 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 32 |
In addition to the major and minor, teacher candidates must also complete the following.
Consult the Secondary Social Studies Licensure Coordinator to stay current with licensure requirements.