Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Major in History (Secondary Education; Teacher Certification in History, Grades Seven through Twelve, with Double Major in B.A. Education)

Minimum Hours: 120 Semester Credit Hours

Admission Requirements

1. All students pursuing teacher certification must apply and be accepted to the Office of Educator Preparation.

General Requirements

1. The general education core curriculum courses are listed in the degree plan below along with the statewide component code number. See the General Education Core Curriculum section of this catalog for the Texas State requirements and options in the core curriculum, including Honors courses. The History courses HIST 2327, HIST 2328, HIST 2381, and HIST 2382 are for general education core curriculum credit only and are not allowed for the major in History.  
2. In addition to the general education core curriculum requirements, the Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) requires three additional hours of English literature, three hours of math/science/logic/computer science courses, six hours of 2000-level modern language courses. A minor is typically required for the B.A. degree programs; however, for this program the major in Education fulfills the requirement for a minor.
3. Nine hours of writing intensive (WI) courses are required for graduation, which can be completed by courses in the major, minor, or general education core curriculum (not including ENG 1310, ENG 1320).
4. Students must complete a minimum of 36 advanced hours (3000 or 4000 level courses).
5. This degree program is designed to prepare students for secondary teacher certification in History and requires that students pursue a double major by declaring and completing requirements for both the major in History and the major in Education. The following courses are required for the major in Education:

   Course List

   Code	Title	Hours
   Education Foundations
   CI 2310	Education for Change	3
   CI 3325	Adolescents and Society	3
   CI 4332	Secondary Teaching: Curriculum and Technology	3
   Teaching and Learning
   CI 3340	Teaching for Linguistic Diversity	3
   CI 4343	Instructional Strategies for the Secondary Teacher	3
   CI 4370	Building Relationships in the Secondary Classroom	3
   CI 4372	Teaching in Communities	3
   RDG 3323	Teaching Literacies in the Content Areas	3
   SPED 4344	Educating Students with Mild Disabilities	3
   Clinical Practice
   EDST 4681	Student Teaching 7-12	6
   Total Hours		33

6. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) requires multiple background checks for progression through the Educator Preparation Program. Based on information recorded in your criminal history, you may be ineligible for issuance of a teaching certificate upon completion of the Educator Preparation Program. If you have a criminal history, you may obtain a Preliminary Criminal History Evaluation from TEA. For more information, go to:  https://tea.texas.gov/Texas_Educators/Investigations/Preliminary_Criminal_History_Evaluation-FAQs/.
7. This major requires 33 semester credit hours including the following History courses:
8. To satisfy graduation requirements for teacher certification, students must have at least a 2.75 Overall GPA and a GPA of at least 2.50 in all assigned courses in the professional sequence of the Education major with no grade below a “C”.
9. For transfer students, 6 semester credit hours in Curriculum and Instruction and Special Education may be transferred from a Texas public institution of higher education for the Associate of Arts in Teaching Field of Study and be applied to the Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Education at Texas State University. More information about the Field of Study is available in the Academic Policies section of this catalog. The transferable Texas Common Course Number (TCCN) is listed below the Texas State University course number in the following course list.

   Course List

   Code	Title	Hours
   CI 2310	Education for Change (CI ELNA)	3
   TCCN: CI 1301
   SPED 4344	Educating Students with Mild Disabilities (CI ELNA)	3
   TCCN: CI 2301

10. For transfer students, 21 semester credit hours in History may be transferred from a Texas public institution of higher education for the History Field of Study and be applied to the Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in History at Texas State University. More information about the Field of Study is available in the Academic Policies section of this catalog. The transferable Texas Common Course Number (TCCN) is listed below the Texas State University course number in the following course list.

    Course List

    Code	Title	Hours
    HIST 1310	History of the United States to 1877	3
    TCCN: HIST 1301
    HIST 1320	History of the United States, 1877 to Date	3
    TCCN: HIST 1302
    Choose two of the following eight courses:		6
    HIST 2310	Western Civilization to 1715
    TCCN: HIST 2311
    HIST 2311	History of World Civilization to the 17th Century
    TCCN: HIST 2321
    HIST 2312	History of World Civilization from the 17th Century
    TCCN: HIST 2322
    HIST 2320	Western Civilization, 1715 to Date
    TCCN: HIST 2312
    HIST ELNA
    TCCN: HIST 2301
    HIST ELNA
    TCCN: HIST 2327
    HIST ELNA
    TCCN: HIST 2328
    HIST ELNA
    TCCN: HIST 2381
    Total Hours		12

Course Requirements

Freshman
First Semester	Hours	Second Semester	Hours
ENG 1310 (Communication Component Code 010)	3	ENG 1320 (Communication Component Code 010)	3
US 1100	1	POSI 2320 (Government/Political Science Component Code 070)	3
POSI 2310 (Government/Political Science Component Code 070)	3	American History Component Code 060	3
Modern Language 1410	4	Modern Language 1420	4
Mathematics Component Code 020	3	PHIL 1305 or 1320 (Language, Philosophy, and Culture Component Code 040)	3
	14		16
Sophomore
First Semester	Hours	Second Semester	Hours
COMM 1310 (Component Area Option Code 090/091)	3	BA ENG Literature	3
ENG Literature (Component Area Option Code 090/094)	3	Modern Language 2320	3
Modern Language 2310	3	HIST 2310 or 2311	3
Social and Behavioral Sciences Component Code 080	3	Life and Physical Sciences Component Code 030	3
American History Component Code 060	3	CI 2310	3
	15		15
Junior
First Semester	Hours	Second Semester	Hours
ART 2313, DAN 2313, MU 2313, or TH 2313 (Creative Arts Component Code 050)	3	HIST Advanced Group Electives1	3
Life and Physical Sciences Component Code 030	3	BA Computer Science, Logic, Mathematics or science	3-4
HIST 2320 or 2312	3	CI 3340	3
HIST Advanced Group Elective1	3	CI 4343	3
CI 3325	3	SPED 4344	3
CI 4332	3
	18		15
Senior
First Semester	Hours	Second Semester	Hours
HIST Advanced Group Electives1	6	HIST Advanced Group Elective1	3
CI 4370	3	HIST 4399	3
CI 4372	3	EDST 4681	6
RDG 3323	3
	15		12
Total Hours: 120

HIST Advanced Group Electives

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
GROUP A - WORLD HISTORY
HIST 3319	Colonial History of Brazil	3
HIST 3320	History of Mexico	3
HIST 3322	Colonial History of Latin America to 1828	3
HIST 3324	Latin America from Independence to Present	3
HIST 3325G	Modern Revolutions in Latin American History	3
HIST 3326	The Southern Cone of Latin America	3
HIST 3327	History of Mexico to 1848	3
HIST 3329	Spanish Borderlands, 1521-1821	3
HIST 3368F	History of U.S. Foreign Policy-Making in the Muslim World	3
HIST 3368N	History of U.S. Foreign Policy in Indochina	3
HIST 3368U	U.S. - Cuban Relations	3
HIST 4318G	Western Eurpore and the Development of Modern Africa	3
HIST 4318S	Britain and the World	3
HIST 4325	Islamic History to 1798	3
HIST 4326	The Modern Middle East	3
HIST 4327	The Problem of Palestine	3
HIST 4328	History of India	3
HIST 4333	The History of Russia and Eurasia to 1917	3
HIST 4343	Modern China, 1600-Present	3
HIST 4344	Modern Japan, 1600-Present	3
HIST 4346	Modern Korea	3
HIST 4347	Hong Kong in the Modern World	3
HIST 4348	Mahatma Gandhi and Nonviolence	3
HIST 4350A	Slavery and Emancipation in the Americas	3
HIST 4350B	Origins of the Modern Global Economic System	3
HIST 4350D	Empire and Identity in Central Asia	3
HIST 4350E	Gender in Latin American History	3
HIST 4350F	Postwar Japan	3
HIST 4350J	History and Culture of Modern India	3
HIST 4350K	Gender & Militarization in the Arab World	3
HIST 4350L	History of Southeast Asia	3
HIST 4350O	History of Indochina	3
HIST 4350P	European Colonial	3
HIST 4350R	Workers and Work in the Arab World	3
HIST 4350S	Piracy Through the Ages	3
HIST 4350V	History of Pakistan	3
HIST 4350W	The Great War	3
HIST 4368	War and Society	3
HIST 4369	Introduction to Ethnohistory	3
HIST 4373	Economic and Social History of the Americas	3
HIST 4388	Problems in History	3

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
GROUP B - EUROPEAN HISTORY
HIST 3310	History of Europe, 1815-1919	3
HIST 3311	History of Europe Since 1919	3
HIST 3312	Renaissance and Reformation	3
HIST 3313	Europe During the Old Regime, 1600-1760	3
HIST 3314	Revolutionary Europe, 1760-1815	3
HIST 3315	History of England to 1603	3
HIST 3316	History of England Since 1603	3
HIST 3368B	Law and Society in Early America	3
HIST 4303	Ancient Greece and the Mediterranean World, 1600 B.C. to 30 B.C.	3
HIST 4304	Ancient Rome and the Mediterranean 500 B.C. to 500 A.D.	3
HIST 4307	Medieval European History, 300-1400	3
HIST 4317	Tudor-Stuart England, 1485-1689	3
HIST 4318A	Daily Life in the Roman Empire	3
HIST 4318G	Western Eurpore and the Development of Modern Africa	3
HIST 4318O	History of Modern Spain	3
HIST 4318P	France and the Modern World	3
HIST 4318Q	History of Early Modern Spain	3
HIST 4318R	Ancient and Medieval Spain	3
HIST 4318S	Britain and the World	3
HIST 4318T	Topics in Roman and Medieval Britain	3
HIST 4318U	Topics in Industrial Britain	3
HIST 4320	Origins of Christianity	3
HIST 4333	The History of Russia and Eurasia to 1917	3
HIST 4334	The History of Russia and Eurasia from 1917 to Present	3
HIST 4336	Germany from 1815 to Present	3
HIST 4337	Germany and National Socialism, 1918-1945	3
HIST 4350P	European Colonial	3
HIST 4350S	Piracy Through the Ages	3
HIST 4350W	The Great War	3
HIST 4368	War and Society	3
HIST 4388	Problems in History	3

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
GROUP C - U.S. HISTORY
HIST 3329	Spanish Borderlands, 1521-1821	3
HIST 3340	History of the United States, 1877-1914	3
HIST 3341	History of the United States, 1914-1945	3
HIST 3342	Social and Intellectual History of the United States, 1607-1865	3
HIST 3343	Social and Intellectual History of the United States Since 1865	3
HIST 3346	The Civil War and Reconstruction	3
HIST 3349	The Constitution of the United States	3
HIST 3352	Western America	3
HIST 3353	Southwestern History	3
HIST 3357	History of U.S. Foreign Relations	3
HIST 3359	African American History	3
HIST 3363	Colonial North America to 1763	3
HIST 3365	US Early Republic, 1788-1828	3
HIST 3368A	Introduction to Public History	3
HIST 3368B	Law and Society in Early America	3
HIST 3368E	United States Westward Expansionism, 1776-1861	3
HIST 3368F	History of U.S. Foreign Policy-Making in the Muslim World	3
HIST 3368H	LBJ's America	3
HIST 3368J	The Space Race	3
HIST 3368K	Topics in American Cultural History	3
HIST 3368L	History of Mexican American Music in the Southwest	3
HIST 3368M	Popular Music and Social Movements in 20th Century America	3
HIST 3368N	History of U.S. Foreign Policy in Indochina	3
HIST 3368O	U.S. Foreign Relations from Revolution to Reconstruction	3
HIST 3368P	The U.S. and Britain in the Sixties	3
HIST 3368R	History of Rock and Roll	3
HIST 3368S	History of Music and Race in the American South	3
HIST 3368T	American Songbook	3
HIST 3368U	U.S. - Cuban Relations	3
HIST 3368X	Organization of the Modern American State	3
HIST 3371A	Conflict and Creativity in U.S. Urban and Suburban History	3
HIST 3372	Texas History: A Survey	3
HIST 3373A	U.S. Women's History to 1877	3
HIST 3373B	U.S. Women's History since 1877	3
HIST 3373C	The History of Rural Women	3
HIST 3375A	Topics in Working Class History	3
HIST 3377	History of Country Music	3
HIST 3378	History of the Blues	3
HIST 3380	The Desegregation of the South from 1944-1970	3
HIST 3381	Democracy and Education	3
HIST 4350W	The Great War	3
HIST 4360	History of the United States, 1945 to 1968	3
HIST 4361	History of the United States, 1968 to the Present	3
HIST 4364	Military History of the United States	3
HIST 4365	Age of Revolution in North America, 1763-1789	3
HIST 4367	US Antebellum Era, 1812-1861	3
HIST 4368	War and Society	3
HIST 4369	Introduction to Ethnohistory	3
HIST 4371	Introduction to American Indian History	3
HIST 4372	Mexican American History	3
HIST 4373	Economic and Social History of the Americas	3
HIST 4375A	Critical Issues in Texas History	3
HIST 4375B	African-American Experience in Texas	3
HIST 4376	The History of Texas Music	3
HIST 4388	Problems in History	3

1	Students will be required to choose 15 hours from the list of History Advanced Group Electives.  Students are required to take one course from Group A - World History, one course from Group B - European History, two courses from Group C - U.S. History and one course from either Group A or Group B.