Dec 06, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

History, Teacher Licensure, BA


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Advanced Placement Opportunity:

Acceptable scores in CLEP (American History and Western Civilization tests) or CEEB examinations will merit advanced placement and credit.

Program Requirements for History Major:

  1. Completion of the Bonaventure Program and requirements for undergraduate degrees.
  2. A grade of “C” or better is required in all history courses to count toward the major or minor.
  3. At least one year of a single foreign language is highly recommended, but not required for history majors.
  4. Students need a Cumulative Major GPA of 2.0 and no more than 2 major courses below a C to receive a degree. Major courses are all courses listed in section G of the degree checklist.

Teacher Licensure (Special and Secondary K-12)


  1. Completion of the Bonaventure Program and requirements  for undergraduate degrees.
  2. Requirements of the chosen major (at least 32 hours required for licensure in a major).

Professional Education:


Math Content Requirement:


Field Experience (120 Clock Hours) and Seminar:


Specific Areas Required for Licensure:


(These courses may also fulfill Bonaventure Program requirements).

Additional Information:


Regardless of the grade point average, no grade of “C-” or lower will be accepted in any courses offered (professional education or major course of study).

*Higher level math courses (with the exception of MAT 150 - Basic Statistics ) may be substituted for MAT 124  or MAT 125 .

Informational Technology Requirement:


Note:


any one of these survey courses may count for Bonaventure Program requirements.

Additional Requirements:


24 additional semester hours of courses in history (200 level or above) with at least nine hours in American history, and nine hours in European/ Global history; the remaining 6 hours may be chosen from American history and/or European/ global history; one internship may count in this area.

Teacher Licensure Program:


History majors requesting licensure as secondary education teachers are required to take HIS 400  and to meet the requirements for licensure (see Education).

Special Opportunities:


Membership in the international honor society, Phi Alpha Theta, is available to students recommended by the department for meritorious scholarship in history.

HIS 481 - Public History Internship , provides an opportunity for on-the-job experience in community agencies and museums.

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