B.A. in History, Social Studies Teaching

The History – Social Studies Teaching major at Colorado State University is for students who plan to teach in middle school, junior high, or high school. Students must also complete the requirements for the Social Studies Undergraduate Teaching Licensure through the Center for Educator Preparation (CEP) in the College of Health and Human Sciences.

Learning Outcomes

Students in the History – Social Studies Teaching major at Colorado State University will demonstrate:

• Analyze and interpret historical materials, such as documents, material artifacts, and images;
• Engage in chronological reasoning to understand causation and change over time;
• Examine critically how people in the past understood their own history in scholarly works and in popular forms such as myths, memorials, and other public commemorations;
• Interpret, write, and speak about the past using evidence and according to the standards and expectations of the historical discipline, including honest use of evidence, openness to multiple perspectives, and historical empathy; and
• Analyze both change and continuities over time by considering how events such as revolution, migration, war, ecological disturbance, and globalization changed societies as well as how structures like class, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, climate and religion shaped societies over a longer time horizon.

Potential Occupations

• Government official in foreign service, national security, military, cultural resources management, and other areas;
• History teacher in public and private schools;
• Any professional occupation in business or public service requiring a liberal arts education and skills in research, writing, and the analysis of information;
• With additional graduate training: lawyer, physician, social worker, minister, librarian, museum curator, archivist, professor, educational administrator, or other professional.