BSEd in Middle School Education with Emphasis in Social Studies
Degree Program Description
The Bachelor of Science in Education in Middle School Education prepares students to work with children from fifth through ninth grade in public, private, and alternative school systems. You may consider a degree in education if you enjoy working with children and/or adolescents, want to strengthen the future through education, and want to make a difference in the lives of others. MU Students work closely with mentors, practicing teachers, administrators, and university faculty to develop the knowledge and skills to enhance learning outcomes for children and youth. The coursework through the College of Education & Human Development focuses on teachers’ roles in facilitating learning at all levels of development and considers the influences of cultural, political, historical, and economic factors on students, teachers, and schools. Upon successfully completing the initial teacher certification process, the state grants you certification in middle school social studies. Practical and rewarding clinical training in schools and agencies begins sophomore year and continues each semester culminating in a senior-level teaching internship, enhancing teaching skills and confidence. Coursework within Middle School Social Studies will teach you ways to support the social studies learning of middle school students.
Major Program Requirements
Students must complete all university, general education, and content requirements, in addition to degree requirements. Please meet with an Academic Advisor to discuss degree requirements and to create a semester plan.
Teacher Education programs in the College of Education & Human Development are accredited by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). Curriculum changes mandated to earn teacher certification may become effective at any point during your academic program. Therefore, it is extremely important that you DO NOT SELF ADVISE.
Degree Requirements Sample Program
| Early Experiences | ||
| LTC 1100 | Orientation | 1 |
| or SPC_ED 1100 | Orientation: Special Education | |
| LTC 2200 | School Health and Student Wellbeing | 3 |
| ESC_PS 2010 | Inquiry Into Learning I | 3 |
| ESC_PS 2014 | Inquiry into Learning I - Field Experience | 1 |
| LTC 2040 | Inquiring into Schools, Community and Society I | 3 |
| or LTC 2040H | Inquiring into Schools, Community and Society I - Honors | |
| LTC 2044 | Inquiry into Schools, Community and Society: Field | 1 |
| IS_LT 2467 | Inquiry into Empowering Learners with Technology | 3 |
| Mid-Level Experiences | ||
| LTC 4530 | Introduction to Social Studies | 3 |
| LTC 4534 | Secondary Social Studies I Field Experience | 1 |
| LTC 4460 | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages | 3 |
| or LTC 4460H | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages - Honors | |
| LTC 4560 | Reading and Writing in the Content Areas | 3 |
| LTC 4320 | Middle School Social Studies I | 3 |
| LTC 4324 | Middle School Social Studies Field I | 1 |
| SPC_ED 4020 | Teaching the Exceptional Learner | 3 |
| LTC 4565 | Reading and Writing in the Content Areas II | 3 |
| Advanced-Level Experiences | ||
| LTC 4334 | Middle School Social Studies Field Experience II | 1 |
| LTC 4550 | Assessment in Social Studies | 3 |
| LTC 4410 | Teaching, Engaging and Assessing Middle-Level Students | 3 |
| ED_LPA 4060 | Inquiring into Schools, Community and Society II | 3 |
| SPC_ED 4310 | Behavioral and Classroom Management | 3 |
| LTC 4971 | Internship and Capstone Seminar | 12 |
| Internship and Capstone Seminar - Honors (Honors students can choose to enroll in 6 credit hours of LTC 4971H and 6 credit hours of LTC 4971 to fulfill 12 credit hour requirement for Internship and Capstone Seminar.) | ||
| Content Area (courses cannot double-dip with professional education or within the content area sub-categories) | ||
| American History | 6 | |
| HIST 1100 | Survey of American History to 1865 | 3 |
| or HIST 1100H | Survey of American History to 1865 - Honors | |
| HIST 1200 | Survey of American History Since 1865 | 3 |
| or HIST 1200H | Survey of American History Since 1865 - Honors | |
| HIST 1400 can replace HIST 1100 & HIST 1200. However, if student has History 1400, they must complete an additional American History course | ||
| World History | 3 | |
| HIST 1500 | Origins of European History | 3 |
| or HIST 1500H | Origins of European History - Honors | |
| or HIST 1510 | History of Modern Europe | |
| or HIST 1510H | History of Modern Europe - Honors | |
| Political Science | 3 | |
| POL_SC 1100 | American Government | 3 |
| or POL_SC 1100H | American Government - Honors | |
| Economics | 3 | |
| ABM 1041 | Applied Microeconomics | 3 |
| or ABM 1042 | Applied Macroeconomics | |
| or ECONOM 1014 | Principles of Microeconomics | |
| or ECONOM 1014H | Principles of Microeconomics-Honors | |
| Geography | 3 | |
| GEOG 1100 | Regions and Nations of the World I | 3 |
| or GEOG 1100H | Regions and Nations of the World I - Honors | |
| or GEOG 1200 | Regions and Nations of the World II | |
| or GEOG 1205H | Regions and Nations General Honors | |
| or GEOG 1550 | Introduction to the Humanized Earth | |
| Psychology | 3 | |
| Psychology 1000+ | ||
| History Elective (American or World) | 3 | |
| HIST 1410 | African American History | 3 |
| HIST 1520 | The Ancient World | 3 |
| HIST 1540 | England Before the Glorious Revolution | 3 |
| HIST 1560 | The World of the Middle Ages | 3 |
| HIST 1570 | Survey of Early Modern Europe, 1350-1650 | 3 |
| HIST 2100 | The Revolutionary Transformation of America | 3 |
| or HIST 2100H | The Revolutionary Transformation of America - Honors | |
| HIST 2120 | The Young Republic | 3 |
| or HIST 2120H | The Young Republic - Honors | |
| HIST 2150 | The American Civil War: A Global History | 3 |
| HIST 2210 | Twentieth Century America | 3 |
| HIST 2220 | America in the 1960's | 3 |
| HIST 2240 | Flight in America: From the Wright Brothers to the Space Age | 3 |
| or HIST 2240H | Flight in America: From the Wright Brothers to the Space Age - Honors | |
| HIST 2400 | Social History of U.S. Women | 3 |
| HIST 2410 | African American Women in History | 3 |
| HIST 2422 | Nature's Nation: Disease, Disaster, and Ecology in American History | 3 |
| HIST 2430 | History of American Religion | 3 |
| HIST 2440 | History of Missouri | 3 |
| or HIST 2440H | History of Missouri - Honors | |
| HIST 2445 | American Constitutional Democracy | 3 |
| HIST 2520 | From Waterloo to Sarajevo: European History, 1815-1914 | 3 |
| HIST 2530 | Ukrainian History from Medieval to Modern Times | 3 |
| HIST 3000 | History of Religion in America to the Civil War | 3 |
| HIST 3010 | Colonial America | 3 |
| HIST 3200 | Black Freedom Movement, 1955-1973 | 3 |
| HIST 3210 | History of Religion in Post-Civil War America | 3 |
| HIST 3220 | U.S. Women's Political History, 1880-Present | 3 |
| HIST 3510 | The Ancient Greek World | 3 |
| HIST 3520 | The Roman World | 3 |
| HIST 3530 | The Hellenistic World: From Alexander to Rome | 3 |
| HIST 3540 | 20th Century Europe | 3 |
| HIST 3570 | European Women in the 19th Century | 3 |
| HIST 3580 | Modern Italy, 1815 to the Present | 3 |
| HIST 3590 | The Early Middle Ages | 3 |
| HIST 3600 | The Later Middle Ages | 3 |
| HIST 3800 | Women in African History | 3 |
| HIST 3830 | Chinese Women's History | 3 |
| HIST 4000 | Age of Jefferson | 3 |
| HIST 4010 | The Age of Jackson | 3 |
| HIST 4040 | Slavery and the Crisis of the Union: The American Civil War Era | 3 |
| HIST 4060 | The Period of the American Revolution, 1760-1789 | 3 |
| HIST 4070 | Indians and Europeans in Early America | 3 |
| HIST 4100 | American Cultural and Intellectual History to 1865 | 3 |
| HIST 4200 | American Cultural and Intellectual History Since 1865 | 3 |
| HIST 4220 | U.S. Society Between the Wars 1918-1945 | 3 |
| HIST 4230 | Our Times: United States Since 1945 | 3 |
| HIST 4232 | White Collar and Celebrity Crime in 20th and 21st Century America | 3 |
| or HIST 4232H | White Collar and Celebrity Crime in 20th and 21st Century America - Honors | |
| HIST 4235 | The Wire: Race, Urban Inequality, and the "Crisis" of the American City | 3 |
| HIST 4260 | The Age of Ascendancy: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1945 - Present | 3 |
| HIST 4270 | African-Americans in the Twentieth Century | 3 |
| or HIST 4270H | African-Americans in the Twentieth Century - Honors | |
| HIST 4280 | America in the Reagan Years | 3 |
| or HIST 4280H | America in the Reagan Years - Honors | |
| HIST 4290 | Innovation in 20th and 21st Century America | 3 |
| HIST 4303 | Black Studies in Race, Class, Gender and U.S. Policy | 3 |
| HIST 4310 | Adoption, Child Welfare and the Family, 1850-Present | 3 |
| HIST 4400 | History of American Law | 3 |
| HIST 4415 | African Americans and American Justice | 3 |
| HIST 4425 | The Superhero in American Culture From Washington to Wolverine | 3 |
| HIST 4430 | The Great West in American History | 3 |
| HIST 4440 | History of the American Environment | 3 |
| HIST 4445 | American Political Economy from the Commerce Clause to the Great Recession | 3 |
| HIST 4500 | Philip II and Alexander the Great of Macadonia | 3 |
| HIST 4510 | Crime and Punishment: Law in Classical Athens | 3 |
| HIST 4520 | The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic | 3 |
| or HIST 4520H | The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic - Honors | |
| HIST 4530 | The Roman Empire | 3 |
| or HIST 4530H | The Roman Empire - Honors | |
| HIST 4540 | The Later Roman Empire | 3 |
| or HIST 4540H | The Later Roman Empire - Honors | |
| HIST 4550 | Age of the Vikings | 3 |
| HIST 4560 | The Crusades | 3 |
| HIST 4570 | Intellectual History of Europe, 17th and 18th Centuries | 3 |
| HIST 4580 | The "Making" of Modern Europe: Identity, Culture, Empire | 3 |
| HIST 4590 | Stuart England | 3 |
| HIST 4600 | English Legal and Constitutional History | 3 |
| HIST 4610 | Early Modern Britain, 1450-1688 | 3 |
| HIST 4620 | Modern England | 3 |
| HIST 4630 | The Age of the Renaissance | 3 |
| or HIST 4630H | The Age of the Renaissance - Honors | |
| HIST 4650 | Revolutionary France, 1789-1815 | 3 |
| or HIST 4650H | Revolutionary France, 1789-1815 - Honors | |
| HIST 4660 | Gender, War, and Migration: Europe, 1914 to the Present | 3 |
| HIST 4680 | From the Rise of the Nazis to the Fall of the Wall: German History in the Twentieth Century | 3 |
| HIST 4690 | Modern France 1815 to Present | 3 |
| HIST 4700 | Imperial Russia, 1682-1825 | 3 |
| HIST 4710 | The Russian Revolution | 3 |
| HIST 4821 | Constitutionalism in the Americas | 3 |
| HIST 4900 | Beltway History: American Constitutional Democracy in Theory and Practice | 3 |
| Global History/Cultural History Course | 3 | |
| HIST 1405 | Understanding Africa | 3 |
| HIST 1790 | History of Early Africa | 3 |
| HIST 1800 | History of Modern Africa | 3 |
| HIST 1830 | Survey of East Asian History | 3 |
| HIST 1840 | Colonial Latin America | 3 |
| or HIST 1840H | Colonial Latin America - Honors | |
| HIST 1850 | Latin America Since Independence | 3 |
| HIST 1871 | History of China in Modern Times | 3 |
| HIST 1872 | Mao's China and Beyond: China Since 1949 | 3 |
| HIST 2820 | Taiwan: The First Chinese Democracy | 3 |
| HIST 2904 | Black Studies in Slavery and Freedom | 3 |
| HIST 3505 | History of Ancient Egypt | 3 |
| HIST 3815 | Africa and the World: Studies in African Histories, Cultures and Politics | 3 |
| HIST 3820 | Twentieth Century China | 3 |
| HIST 3845 | Rights and Revolutions in Asia | 3 |
| HIST 3860 | History of Mexico | 3 |
| HIST 3870 | Social Revolution in Latin America | 3 |
| HIST 4270 | African-Americans in the Twentieth Century | 3 |
| or HIST 4270H | African-Americans in the Twentieth Century - Honors | |
| HIST 4303 | Black Studies in Race, Class, Gender and U.S. Policy | 3 |
| HIST 4800 | Modern China and Japan: War, Imperialism and Memory | 3 |
| HIST 4825 | Africa from the Slave Trade to Independence | 3 |
| HIST 4835 | Race and Politics in South Africa | 3 |
| or HIST 4835H | Race and Politics in South Africa - Honors | |
| HIST 4870 | Southeast Asia Since the Eighteenth Century | 3 |
| HIST 4880 | Chinese Migration: From Yellow Peril to Model Minority | 3 |
| BL_STU 1000 | Introduction to Black Studies | 3 |
| or BL_STU 1000H | Introduction to Black Studies - Honors | |
| BL_STU 1705 | Introduction to Black Studies in Culture | 3 |
| or BL_STU 1705H | Introduction to Black Studies in Culture - Honors | |
| BL_STU 1720 | African-American Theatre History | 3 |
| BL_STU 1801 | Introduction to Africa and the African Diaspora | 3 |
| ANTHRO 2030 | Cultural Anthropology | 3 |
| or ANTHRO 2030H | Cultural Anthropology - Honors | |
| ANTHRO 2100 | Indigenous Religions | 3 |
| or ANTHRO 2100H | Indigenous Religions - Honors | |
| ANTHRO 3470 | Culture as Communication | 3 |
| SOCIOL 1500 | Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies | 3 |
| WGST 2250 | Gender, Race, Class and Sexuality in the Americas | 3 |
| WGST 2400 | Social History of U.S. Women | 3 |
| WGST 4550 | Gender and Human Rights in Cross Cultural Perspective | 3 |
| H_D_FS 2300 | Multicultural Study of Children and Families | 3 |
Semester Plan
Below is a sample plan of study, semester by semester. A student’s actual plan may vary based on course choices and where options are available.
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| LTC 1100 | 1 | LTC 2200 | 3 |
| ENGLSH 1000 | 3 | IS_LT 2467 | 3 |
| Humanities | 3 | General Education Math Requirement | 3 |
| HIST 1100 | 3 | Biological, Physical, Mathematical Science | 3 |
| Elective | 3 | HIST 1200 | 3 |
| 13 | 15 | ||
| Second Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| ESC_PS 2010 or LTC 2040 (Social Science) | 3 | ESC_PS 2010 or LTC 2040 (Social Science) | 3 |
| ESC_PS 2014 or LTC 2044 | 1 | ESC_PS 2014 or LTC 2044 | 1 |
| Lab Science | 3 | Humanities | 3 |
| Humanities and Writing Intensive | 3 | Biological, Physical, Mathematical Science | 3 |
| Psychology 1000+ | 3 | POL_SC 1100 | 3 |
| HIST 1500 or 1510 | 3 | History Elective (American or World History) | 3 |
| 16 | 16 | ||
| Third Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| LTC 4530 | 3 | LTC 4320 | 3 |
| LTC 4534 | 1 | LTC 4324 | 1 |
| SPC_ED 4020 | 3 | LTC 4565 | 3 |
| LTC 4560 | 3 | LTC 4460 | 3 |
| GEOG 1100, 1200, or 1550 | 3 | ECONOM 1014, ABM 1041, or ABM 1042 | 3 |
| Elective | 3 | Global History/Cultural History | 3 |
| 16 | 16 | ||
| Fourth Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| LTC 4550 | 3 | LTC 4971 | 12 |
| LTC 4334 | 1 | ||
| LTC 4410 | 3 | ||
| ED_LPA 4060 | 3 | ||
| SPC_ED 4310 | 3 | ||
| Elective | 3 | ||
| 16 | 12 | ||
| Total Credits: 120 | |||
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For additional details on degree audits, go to https://registrar.missouri.edu/degrees-audits/degree-audits/.
Major and Career Exploration
The University of Missouri has many resources to assist you in exploring majors and career possibilities. For guidance, visit the Majors and Careers website or view specific resources below.
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If you are considering a change of major or are exploring multiple majors, schedule an appointment with an advisor in the Discovery Center by calling (573)884-9700 or through MU Connect Discovery Center service in you success network.
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If you have decided on a major, visit an academic advisor in the School or College that you are interested in to discuss the process of declaring the major.
- If you would like to learn more about your career interests, abilities, values and talents, visit the MU Career Center. No Appointment is necessary to explore career options with one of our staff members.
- If you would like information about MU majors and degree programs, visit:
- the Degrees, Majors (Degree Programs), Emphasis Areas, Minors and Certificates page in the catalog,
- the MU Majors website.
For additional major and career exploration resources, visit Major & Career Exploration in the catalog.