UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS
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,
Proposed change leads to the
degree of: __NA_____________________________________
(Example: BA,
BACH,
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
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.)
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POSC 240 Introduction to International Relations or
POSC 270 Comparative Politics
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POSC 102 Civics and Economics for Teachers, POSC 150 American
Political System or POSC 270 Comparative Politics (whichever was not taken
for General Studies)
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Economics course*
..3 Geography course*
..3 Two History, Geography, Political Science or Economics
courses*
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...6 *Six of the above 12 credits must be
at the 300 level or higher. |
Economics course
..3 Geography course
..3 An approved History course
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..3 The list of approved courses is
available online at (web
page to be determined). |
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Free elective from any department
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Free elective from any department
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List of Approved History Courses
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Western Civilization to 1648 |
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Western Civilization: 1648 to the Present |
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World History I |
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World History II |
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Islamic Near East: 600-1500 |
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Islamic Near East: 1500-Present |
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History of |
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Introduction to Latin American History |
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East Asian Civilization: |
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East Asian Civilization: |
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History and Government of |
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Introduction to Global Islam |
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Introduction to Military History |
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Introduction to Material Culture Studies |
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American Civil Rights Movement |
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History of Christianity to 1300 |
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Ancient Religion and Civilization |
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Jewish Holocaust: 1933-1945 |
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History of Modern |
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Women in American History |
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The World in Our Time |
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The |
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The |
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Postwar |
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Postwar |
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History of Crime and Criminal Justice |
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The United States, 1877 - 1914 |
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The United States, 1914 - 1945 |
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Buying In: Consumer Capitalism in the |
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Colonial |
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Revolutionary |
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Civil War and Reconstruction |
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The Old South |
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American Constitutional History |
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History of Black |
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History of Black |
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American Industrial Society from 1815 to the Present |
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International Migration |
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African American Women's History |
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Topics in European History |
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Ancient |
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Ancient |
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Barbarian |
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Medieval |
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Renaissance |
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Reformation |
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History of |
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Modern |
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World War II in |
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Contemporary European Society |
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Modern |
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Modern Jewish History |
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Modern |
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History of Modern |
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Postwar |
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History of |
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Radicalism and Revolution: Islamic Movement/Modern |
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Nationalism in the Modern |
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History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict |
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Islam and the West: The History of Mutual
Perceptions |
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History of Western Medicine |
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Asian |
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American Indian History |
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The American West |
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American Indians: The Southwest |
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History of Modern |
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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
On
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
John,
Thank you again for offering
Best,
Laura
On
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
302 831 2355
On
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
302-831-8943
efreel@udel.edu