UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS

UGS0112

Academic Program Approval

 

This form is a routing document for the approval of new and revised academic programs.  Proposing department should complete this form.  For more information, call the Faculty Senate Office at 831-2921.

 

 

Submitted by: _Laura Glass__________________ phone number_(320) 831-1647______

                               

Department:  _School of Education________________ email address_lglass@udel.edu_____

                                                                                                                                                                                                             

 

Action:  Revise the Middle School Social Studies concentration within the Elementary Teacher Education major

(Example:  add major/minor/concentration, delete major/minor/concentration, revise major/minor/concentration,  academic unit name change, request for permanent status, policy change, etc.)

 

Effective term ___012F________________________________________________________________________

                                                (use format 04F, 05W)

 

Current degree      BSED____ ________________________________

                                    (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

Proposed change leads to the degree of: __NA_____________________________________

                                                                                             (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

Proposed name: ____ NA ______________________________________________________

                                            Proposed new name for revised or new major / minor / concentration / academic unit (if applicable)

 

Revising or Deleting: 

 

Undergraduate major / Concentration: Elementary Teacher Education major/ Middle School Social studies concentration

            (Example:  Applied Music – Instrumental degree BMAS)

 

Undergraduate minor: ____________________________________________________

                                   (Example:  African Studies, Business Administration, English, Leadership, etc.)             

Graduate Program Policy statement change: _________________________________

                                                                  (Must attach your Graduate Program Policy Statement)

 

            Graduate Program of Study: ______________________________________________

                                 (Example:  Animal Science: MS Animal Science: PHD  Economics: MA Economics: PHD)

 

 

                Graduate minor / concentration: ___________________________________________

 

 

Note: all graduate studies proposals must include an electronic copy of the Graduate Program Policy Document, highlighting the changes made to the original policy document.

 

 

List new courses required for the new or revised curriculum. How do they support the overall program objectives of the major/minor/concentrations)?

 (Be aware that approval of the curriculum is dependent upon these courses successfully passing through the Course Challenge list. If there are no new courses enter “None”)

 

None.

 

Explain, when appropriate, how this new/revised curriculum supports the 10 goals of undergraduate education: http://www.ugs.udel.edu/gened/

 

The proposed change does not address additional goals for the Elementary Teacher Education major/Middle School Social Studies concentration.

 

Identify other units affected by the proposed changes:

(Attach permission from the affected units.  If no other unit is affected, enter “None”)

 

The Department of History, Department of Political Science & International Relations and the Institute for Public Administration are affected by the proposed changes. The support for the proposal from the chairs of these departments and the coordinator of POSC 102 in the institute is provided in the emails at the end of the proposal.

 

Describe the rationale for the proposed program change(s):

(Explain your reasons for creating, revising, or deleting the curriculum or program.)

 

The middle school social studies concentration within the Elementary Teacher Education (ETE) major enables students to earn middle school social studies teacher certification and is a nationally accredited program. Students in this program take the Praxis II Middle Level Social Studies test to earn state certification and to demonstrate their content knowledge as part of the accreditation process. A review of the data from this test indicates that our students do not have sufficient knowledge of the social studies disciplines taught in middle schools. Therefore, we propose to revise the concentration curriculum to improve the students’ content knowledge for the middle school classroom and to better prepare them for this important assessment.

 

Students in this concentration currently take POSC 240 – Introduction to International Relations or POSC 270 – Comparative Politics. However, POSC 240 does not prepare students for working with middle school children or the Praxis II test. We propose to replace POSC 240 with the options of POSC 102 – Civics and Economics for Teachers or POSC 150 – American Political Systems. Both courses address topics that students would teach in a middle school or encounter on the Praxis II test. All ETE students take POSC 102 or 150 to satisfy a General Studies requirement, so we would add the wording “whichever was not taken for General Studies” to this new requirement so that one of these courses could not count toward both the ETE General Studies requirement and the concentration requirement.

 

The test data show that students’ knowledge of history needs to improve in particular. Students currently take two courses in the areas of history, geography, political science or economics, so they could take two courses in areas other than history and not be completing enough courses to effectively prepare them to teach this content. We propose to replace this requirement with HIST 315 – History for Teachers and an approved history course so that the students develop a deeper understanding of history for the middle school classroom. The approved courses were selected in consultation with the secondary social studies education program coordinator so that the course content would be relevant to the students’ future teaching practice and/or address broad topics that could appear on the Praxis II test. These courses are listed below the following chart.

 

Program Requirements: 

(Show the new or revised curriculum as it should appear in the Course Catalog.  If this is a revision, be sure to indicate the changes being made to the current curriculum and include a side-by-side comparison of the credit distribution before and after the proposed change.)

 

    Current Middle School Social Studies Requirements              Proposed Middle School Social Studies Requirements

HIST 205 or 206 United States History or HIST 103 or 104 World History (whichever was not taken for General Studies)………………………………………………………3

HIST 205 or 206 United States History or HIST 103 or 104 World History (whichever was not taken for General Studies).…………………………………………………….3

POSC 240 Introduction to International Relations or POSC 270 Comparative Politics……………………….…….…......3

POSC 102 Civics and Economics for Teachers, POSC 150 American Political System or POSC 270 Comparative Politics (whichever was not taken for General Studies) …... 3

Economics course*…………………………………………..3

Geography course*…………………………………………..3

Two History, Geography, Political Science or Economics courses*……………………………………….……………...6

*Six of the above 12 credits must be at the 300 level or higher.

Economics course…………………………………………..3

Geography course…………………………………………..3

HIST 315 History for Teachers…..………..……………….3

An approved History course…..……..……………………..3

The list of approved courses is available online at (web page to be determined).

EDUC 348 Investigating Social Studies in Middle School Communities………………………..………………………..3

EDUC 348 Investigating Social Studies in Middle School Communities………………………..……………………….3

EDUC 400 Student Teaching: Middle School Social Studies……………………..…………………………………5

EDUC 400 Student Teaching: Middle School Social Studies……………………………………………………….5

Free elective from any department……………….…………..3

Free elective from any department……………….………..3

 

List of Approved History Courses

 

Course

Title

HIST101

Western Civilization to 1648

HIST102

Western Civilization: 1648 to the Present

HIST103

World History I

HIST104

World History II

HIST130

Islamic Near East: 600-1500

HIST131

Islamic Near East: 1500-Present

HIST134

History of Africa

HIST135

Introduction to Latin American History

HIST137

East Asian Civilization: China

HIST138

East Asian Civilization: Japan

HIST200

History and Government of Delaware

HIST201

Introduction to Global Islam

HIST205

United States History

HIST206

United States History

HIST210

Introduction to Military History

HIST216

Introduction to Material Culture Studies

HIST220

American Civil Rights Movement

HIST241

History of Christianity to 1300

HIST243

Ancient Religion and Civilization

HIST254

Jewish Holocaust: 1933-1945

HIST270

History of Modern Asia

HIST300

Women in American History

HIST302

The World in Our Time

HIST307

The United States in the Early National Period

HIST308

The United States in the Antebellum Period

HIST309

United States Business and Political Economy

HIST310

Postwar America I: 1945-1963

HIST311

Postwar America II: 1963-Present

HIST312

History of Crime and Criminal Justice

HIST313

The United States, 1877 - 1914

HIST314

The United States, 1914 - 1945

HIST317

Buying In: Consumer Capitalism in the US

HIST318

Colonial America

HIST319

Revolutionary America

HIST321

Civil War and Reconstruction

HIST323

The Old South

HIST324

American Constitutional History

HIST325

History of Black America to the Civil War

HIST326

History of Black America Since the Civil War

HIST328

American Industrial Society from 1815 to the Present

HIST329

International Migration

HIST334

African American Women's History

HIST339

Topics in European History

HIST340

Ancient Near East and Greece

HIST341

Ancient Rome

HIST342

Barbarian Europe

HIST343

Medieval Europe: 1050-1350

HIST344

Renaissance Europe

HIST345

Reformation Europe

HIST348

History of Spain: 1479-Present

HIST349

Modern Latin America: 1800-Present

HIST350

World War II in Europe, 1939-1945

HIST351

Europe in Crisis: 1919-1945

HIST352

Contemporary European Society

HIST353

Modern Germany: 1770-1919

HIST354

Germany in the Twentieth Century: 1914 to Present

HIST359

Soviet Union: 1917-1990

HIST363

Modern Jewish History

HIST368

Modern China: 1600-1920's

HIST369

China since 1900

HIST370

History of Modern Japan

HIST371

Postwar Japan

HIST372

Japan's Global Pop Culture

HIST374

History of England to 1715

HIST375

Britain Since 1714

HIST377

Radicalism and Revolution: Islamic Movement/Modern Middle East

HIST378

Nationalism in the Modern Middle East

HIST380

History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

HIST381

Islam and the West: The History of Mutual Perceptions

HIST382

History of Western Medicine

HIST386

Asian America: Culture and History

HIST388

American Indian History

HIST389

The American West

HIST390

American Indians: The Southwest

HIST393

History of Modern Vietnam

HIST394

Africa Since 1960

HIST395

Pan Africanism

 

 

 ROUTING AND AUTHORIZATION:        (Please do not remove supporting documentation.)

 

Department Chairperson                                                                                                        Date                                       

 

Dean of College                                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Chairperson, College Curriculum Committee___________________________________Date_____________________

 

Chairperson, Senate Com. on UG or GR Studies                                                                   Date                                       

 

Chairperson, Senate Coordinating Com.                                                                 Date                                       

 

Secretary, Faculty Senate                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Date of Senate Resolution                                                                                                      Date to be Effective               

 

Registrar                                                                  Program Code                                         Date                                       

 

Vice Provost for Academic Affairs & International Programs                                               Date                                       

 

Provost                                                                                                                                   Date                                       

 

Board of Trustee Notification                                                                                                                Date                                       

 

Revised 10/23/2007   /khs

 

 

On 9/27/11 2:25 PM, "John Hurt" <hurt@UDel.Edu> wrote:

Yes, that's fine, Laura. Those courses seem to represent almost everything we teach at the 100-300 level, with just a few exceptions. So that's quite a list to choose from. But it's certainly fine with me if you prefer a longer to a shorter list. On the positive side, it means would be able to get at least one of those courses in every single semester and some summer/winters.
 
All best, John.
 
On
9/27/2011 1:18 PM, Laura Glass wrote:

 

John,
 
Thank you again for offering
HIST 315 every fall for the middle school social studies students! I am writing because I would like to propose requiring this course and a history course from an approved list in the middle school social studies concentration within the Elementary Teacher Education major. These two courses would improve the students’ knowledge of history for the middle school classroom and better prepare them for the Praxis II middle school social studies test. A possible list of history courses is highlighted in yellow in the attached draft of the Faculty Senate proposal. Barry identified these courses as ones that would best prepare students for their future classroom and/or Praxis II test. Would you consider approving these proposed changes to the middle school social studies concentration? Thank you very much for considering this and please let me know if you have any questions.
 
 Best,
 Laura
 
 

On 10/14/11 2:26 PM, "Bauer, Gretchen M." <gbauer@art-sci.udel.edu> wrote:

 

Dear Laura, please be advised that the Department of Political Science and International Relations agrees with your proposed changed to the middle school social studies concentration within the Elementary Education major. It is fine with us for your students no longer to be offered a choice of POSC 240 (or POSC 270), rather they will be offered the choice of POSC 150 or POSC 270. We understand your rationale for doing this. All the best, Gretchen Bauer

 

Gretchen Bauer

Professor and Chair

Department of Political Science and IR

University of Delaware

302 831 2355

www.udel.edu/poscir

 

 

On 10/27/11 8:08 AM, "Freel, Edward" <efreel@udel.edu> wrote:

Laura,
 
As per our discussion, we are comfortable with your plans to propose POSC102/ECON102 as a middle school social studies concentration requirement option.  I was also pleased to hear that on the praxis, students are performing best in civics and economics.
  
Ed
 
Edward J. Freel
Policy Scientist
Institute for
Public Administration
College
of Arts and Sciences
University
of Delaware
302-831-8943
efreel@udel.edu