Students
in the History for Secondary Education major must complete the following:
1. All
students in the history program complete 36 credits of a history major, in
which students take coursework in United States,
European, and World History. All students complete a class in Historical Research
and Writing, in which they write a substantial research paper utilizing primary
and secondary sources.
2. Courses
for the history major include GEOG 107 or Introduction to Geography, and GEOG
110, World Regions, which provide the geographic underpinning for the study
of history.
GEOG
107: Introduction to Geography
Objectives
for this class include:
1). Students
will be able to analyze the spatial information about people, places,
and environments in a spatial context;
2).
Students will be able to describe the physical and human characteristics
of places;
3).
Students will be able to interpret the past, present and to plan for the
future;
4).
Students will be able to ask questions and to acquire, organize, and analyze
geographic information so they can answer geographic questions as they
engage in the study of substantive geographic content;
5).
Students will be able to describe and apply basic geographic concepts.
6).
Students will be able to use maps and other geographic representations,
tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from
a spatial perspective;
7).
Students will be able to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
8).
Students will be able to describe and analyze the physical processes that
shape the earth’s surface;
i. Geologic time
ii. Movements
of continents
iii. Earth materials
iv. Tectonic
forces
v. Gradational/erosional processes
9).
Students will be able to describe how human actions modify the physical
environment;
10).
Students will be able to analyze how physical systems affect human systems.
11).
Students will be able to analyze processes that affect weather and climate;
12).
Students will be able to analyze how weather and climate affect human
systems.
13).
Physical Geography - Environmental Geography
14).
Students will be able to describe the characteristics and spatial distribution
of ecosystems on the earth’s surface;
15).
Students will be able to describe how human interactions modify the environment;
16).
Students will be able to examine the changes that occur in the meaning,
use, distribution, and importance of resources.
17).
Students will be able to describe the characteristics, distribution, and
migration of human population on the earth’s surface and describe the
processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement;
18).
Students will be able to describe and analyze the characteristics, distribution,
and complexity of the earth’s cultural mosaics;
19).
Students will be able to describe how culture and experience influence
people’s perceptions of places and regions.
20).
Students will be able to use mental maps to organize information about
people, places, and environments in a spatial context.
21).
Students will be able to describe and analyze world political systems
and how forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence political
division and control.
22).
Students will be able to describe world economic systems;
23).
Students will be able to describe the patterns and networks of economic
interdependence on the earth’s surface and the changes that occur in the
meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
24).
Students will be able to describe and analyze urban settlement patterns
on the earth’s surface and the processes, patterns, and functions of human
settlement.
25).
Students will be able to describe and analyze the characteristics, distribution,
and complexity of the earth’s urban settlements.
26).
Students will be able to apply the concept of regions as a means to interpret
the earth’s complexity.
GEOG
110 World Regions, has the following outcomes/objectives
that are sought for each of the world realms.
Objectives
for this class include:
1).
Students will be able to describe and analyze the
concepts of realms and regions as means to geographically interpret the
earth's complexity.
2).
Students will be able to describe and analyze how physical systems affect
human systems.
3).
Students will be able to describe and analyze the spatial information
about people, places, and environments around the world.
4).
Students will be able to describe and analyze the physical and human characteristics
of places.
4).
Students will be able to describe and analyze how culture and experience
influence people's perceptions of places and regions.
5).
Students will be able to describe and analyze the characteristics, distribution,
and complexity of global cultural mosaics.
6).
Students will be able to describe and analyze patterns and networks of
economic interdependence on Earth's surface
7).
Students will be able to describe and analyze how the forces of cooperation
and conflict among people influence the division and control of the earth's
surface.
8).
Students will be able to describe and analyze how geography can be used
to interpret the past and present and to plan for the future. Regions
studied include: Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, Australia,
and South America.
3. All
history majors take HIST
102, Western Civilization, 1648 to World War I, whose objectives include
to learn about the major aspects, trends, and events of modern Western Civilization,
and to acquire analytical and critical historical thinking skills. Major
themes of the class are the secularization of what had been a largely religious
society, the rise of rationalism in both the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment,
the development of absolute monarchy on the continent, contrasted with limited
government in England, the revolutionary era, the rise of nationalism and
industry in the 19th, socialism in both its utopian and Marxist
variants, the rise of European culture to a position of world dominance, and
the outbreak and course of what the world would call “The Great War.”
4. All
history majors are required to take HIST
103, 20th-Century Civilization. This course is an examination of the
international developments of the 20th century, with particular emphasis on
the interactions between the West and other world cultures. Objectives of
the class include providing a general understanding of the major events that
shaped the twentieth century world from a variety of perspectives. More practical
goals include developing students’ critical abilities and allowing them to
ask historical questions about why things happened and not just what happened.
Students should also develop an increased sense of how to explore and understand
the way people with different experiences look at the world.
5. All
majors are required to take HIST
123, The United States to 1877, or HIST
124, The United States, 1877 to the Present.
Objectives
for these classes include students’ ability to understand relationships between
an individual, his or her culture and society, and the international world.
Its focus is upon how ordinary Americans navigated their ways through the
various transformations that created and changed the American landscape and
American minds. Part of the goal of the course is for students to synthesize
the experiences of ordinary Americans with larger forces in the society and
the world.
6. All
History for Secondary Education majors must also take six hours of history
courses 300 level or above in two of the following areas and three hours in
the remaining area, thus providing a wide variety of history experiences:
A. United
States and Canada
B. Europe
C. Latin
America, Africa, Asia, History of Religions.
7. All
History for Secondary Education majors must take HIST
300, “Methods of Historical Research and Writing,” which includes
instruction and assessment of students’ abilities to critically use primary
sources to construct a cohesive narrative about an historical issue of their
choice. This class includes instruction in research methods and on taking
multiple perspectives into account in the writing of history.
8. All
History for Secondary Education majors must take HIST
481, in which they learn the national history standards, as devised
by the National Center for History in the Schools and the history section
of the Michigan Curriculum Framework. They also learn and apply the state’s
history themes, a list of key concepts and events in American and Michigan
history. The class includes instruction, models, and resources in the teaching
of history. The class also includes instruction in assessment of history,
including project-based learning, national (Advanced Placement), and state
(Michigan Education Achievement Program) assessments.