Teaching with Middle Grades Social Studies Education Specialization, M.A.T.

Master of Arts in Teaching with Middle Grades Social Studies Education Specialization

Graduate Social Studies Education Director: Serina Cinnamon

MAT Core

• EDN 5040. Basics Tenets of Education (3 credits)
• EDN 5450. Introduction to Curriculum Design and Best Practices (3 credits)
• EDN 5120. Advanced Studies of Exceptional Children (3 credits)

Social Studies Pedagogy: 9 Sem. Hrs.

• SSE 5100. Principles of Social Studies Education (3 credits)
• SSE 5350. Curriculum and Assessment in the Social Studies (3 credits)
• SSE 5500. Advanced Social Studies Curriculum and Instructional Methods (3 credits)

Social Studies Content: 9 Sem. Hrs.

9 hours of graduate coursework in History, Geography, Social Studies Education, and/or Sociology. HST 5000 is required for all SSE MAT candidates. 

• HST 5000. Historiography (3 credits)

• And two of the following:

• GGY 5030. Descriptive Regional Analysis (3 credits)
• HST 5400. Themes in World History (3 credits)
• SOC 5020. American Pluralism-Race and Ethnicity in American Life (3 credits)
• SSE 5600. Teaching and Learning with Primary Sources (3 credits)
• SSE 5750. Social Studies Curriculum Transformation (3 credits)
• SSE 5820. Social Studies Seminar (3 credits)

Social Studies Internship: 3 Sem. Hrs.

• SSE 5810. Internship in Social Studies Education (3 credits)

Total: 30 Sem. Hrs.