Department Information

Chair:
William Skipper

Moffett Center, Room 2120

Phone: 607-753-2726
Fax: 607-753-5973
Email:
amanda.halliwell@cortland.edu

Hours:
8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday

Program Details

Dual Major in Adolescence Education: Social Studies and Anthropology (7-12) [SST and ANT] (Dual Major)

This program in the Sociology/Anthropology Department allows students who major in anthropology to qualify for certification to teach adolescence education in social studies (grades 7-12). It combines a major in anthropology with 63-66 credit hours in additional course work and professional teacher preparation.

Career Potential

Junior high and high school teacher
Teaching adolescence social studies
Professional schools such as law or social work
Business
Government and non-profit agencies and organizations

A. Requirements for the Anthropology major

(See Anthropolgy major)

B. Professional Preparation: 63-66 credit hours

(Including additional social science courses)

Select one course from GE-12: Science, Technology, Values and Society (3 cr. hr.)
HLH 199 - Critical School Health Issues (2 cr. hr.)
POL 100 - Introduction to American Government and Politics (3 cr. hr.)

Select three credit hours in economics from either:

ECO 105 - Political Economy and Social Thought (3 cr. hr.) or
ECO 110 - Principles of Macroeconomics (3 cr. hr.)

Select six credit hours in geography:

GRY 120 - Cultural Geography (3 cr. hr.) or
GRY 125 - Human Geography and Global Development (3 cr. hr.)

also select an additional geography course from the following:

GRY 370 - Will the World Provide? A Research Experience for Students (3 cr. hr.) or
GRY 480 - United States (3 cr. hr.) or
GRY 481 - Geography of New York State (3 cr. hr.) or
GRY 482 - The Geography of Latin America and the Caribbean (3 cr. hr.) or
GRY 484 - Geography of Europe (3 cr. hr.) or
GRY 485 - Africa, South of the Sahara (3 cr. hr.)

Select fifteen credit hours in history from the following:

HIS 100 - The World to 1500 (3 cr. hr.) and
HIS 101 - The World Since 1500 (3 cr. hr.)
or
HIS 110 - Western Civilization to 1715 (3 cr. hr.) and
HIS 111 - Western Civilization since 1715 (3 cr. hr.)

also select:

HIS 200 - The United States to 1877 (3 cr. hr.) and
HIS 201 - The United States Since 1877 (3 cr. hr.)

and take three additional credit hours of history at the 300 level and above.

Select three credit hours from:

AED 310 - Writing in Social Studies (3 cr. hr.) or
LIT 449 - Literacy in the Middle and Secondary School (3 cr. hr.) or
LIT 549 - Literacy in the Middle and Secondary School (3 cr. hr.)

Select an additional three credit hours from:

PSY 350 - Psychology of Language (3 cr. hr.) or
SHH 300 - Normal Language Development (3 cr. hr.)

Select two:

Note : Transfer students with credit for PSY 232 or PSY 332 will be waived from the PSY 101 requirement

PSY 101 - Introductory Psychology (3 cr. hr.) and
PSY 232 - Adolescent Psychology (3 cr. hr.) or
PSY 332 - Educational Psychology (3 cr. hr.)

C. Professional Sequence: Junior year, seven credit hours

AED 300 - Introduction to Secondary Social Studies (1 cr. hr.)
Spring semester only. A 35-hour field requirement is attached to this course. Requires acceptance into the adolescence education: social studies (SST) major.
AED 391 - Introduction to Adolescence Education (3 cr. hr.)
(Fall semester only. A 25-hour field requirement is attached to this course.)
SPE 275 - Teaching Students with Disabilities in Adolescence Classrooms (3 cr. hr.)

D. Professional Sequence: Senior year, 21 credit hours

The SST senior sequence is for seniors meeting all SST major and program requirements. AED 301 should be taken the fall semester that precedes student teaching (AED 400, 401 and 402). Student teaching is a capstone experience. Students who cannot graduate by the December following student teaching may not register for the AED 400, 401, 402 sequence.

To be eligible for student teaching, a student must have been accepted into the adolescence education: social studies (7-12) as a major by the beginning of the second semester of the junior year and must have senior status, at or near 90 credit hours, with 24 credit hours in the academic social science major, which must be officially declared. A student must also have an overall grade point average of 2.5, a grade point average of 2.7 in the academic social science major, and a C or better in AED 300. No student who receives a grade below a C- in any introductory course in the academic social science major will be allowed to enter student teaching until the course has been retaken and a higher grade earned.

AED 301 - Pre-Practice Teaching Seminar (6 cr. hr.)
Fall semester only. A 40-hour field requirement is attached to this course and must be completed during the preceding spring (May-June).

Student Teaching: Spring semester only.

Spring semester only. No other courses may be taken during the student teaching semester.

AED 400 - Student Teaching I: Adolescence Education Social Studies (7 cr. hr.)
AED 401 - Student Teaching II: Adolescence Education Social Studies (7 cr. hr.)
AED 402 - Student Teaching Seminar (1 cr. hr.)

Total Credit Hours Required for Graduation: 126

Maps/Directions Campus Safety Off-Campus Locations Site Map Employment The College Store Contact Us