A. Requirements for the geography major (see above)

B. Professional Preparation: 57-63 credit hours

(Including additional social science courses)

• ECO 105 - Political Economy and Social Thought (3 cr. hr.)
• GRY 425 - Geography in the Classroom (3 cr. hr.)

• or

• GRY 482 - Central America and the Caribbean (3 cr. hr.)

• or

• GRY 484 - Geography of Europe (3 cr. hr.)

• or

• GRY 485 - Africa, South of the Sahara (3 cr. hr.)

• or

• GRY 486 - Monsoon Asia (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 100 - The World to 1500 (3 cr. hr.)

• and

• HIS 101 - The World Since 1500 (3 cr. hr.)

• or

• HIS 110 - Western Civilization to 1715 (3 cr. hr.)

• and

• HIS 111 - Western Civilization since 1715 (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 200 - The United States to 1877 (3 cr. hr.)

• and

• HIS 201 - The United States Since 1877 (3 cr. hr.)

• and and three additional hours of history at the 300 level or above

• HLH 199 - Critical School Health Issues (2 cr. hr.)
• POL 100 - Introduction to American Government and Politics (3 cr. hr.)
• PSY 101 - Introductory Psychology (3 cr. hr.)
• PSY 232 - Adolescent Psychology (3 cr. hr.)

• or

• PSY 332 - Educational Psychology (3 cr. hr.)

C. Professional Sequence: Junior year, four credit hours

• AED 300 - Introduction to Secondary Social Studies (1 cr. hr.)

• Spring semester only. A 35-hour field requirement is attached to this course. Requires acceptance into the adolescence education: social studies (SST) major.

• AED 391 - Introduction to Adolescence Education (3 cr. hr.)

• Fall semester only. A 25-hour field requirement is attached to this course.

D. Professional Sequence: Senior year, 21 credit hours

To be eligible for student teaching, a student must have been accepted into adolescence education: social studies (7-12) as a major by the beginning of the second semester of the junior year and must have senior status, at or near 90 credit hours, with 24 credit hours in the academic social science major, which must be officially declared. A student must also have an overall grade point average of 2.5, a grade point average of 2.7 in the academic social science major, and a C or better in AED 300. No student who receives a grade below a C- in any introductory course in the academic social science major will be allowed to enter student teaching until the course has been retaken and a higher grade earned.

Student teaching is a capstone experience. Students who cannot graduate by the December following student teaching may not register for the AED 400, 401, 402 sequence.

• AED 301 - Pre-Practice Teaching Seminar (6 cr. hr.)

• Fall semester only. A 40-hour field requirement is attached to this course and must be completed in the preceding spring semester.

Total Credit Hours Required for Graduation: 126