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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Teaching, Schools and Society Major BA


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The Teaching, Schools, and Society major provides an interdisciplinary course of studies providing students with a strong cross-curricular foundation firmly grounded in the liberal arts. Students select a concentration within the major and can pursue a licensure curriculum of professional studies courses (listed below the major itself), maintained to ensure that teacher education candidates meet the competencies required by the North Carolina Standards for Professional Educators.

Core Courses for all TSS Concentrations:


Teaching, Schools and Advocacy Concentration:


  • POLI 105 - Introduction to Public Policy 3 hrs
  • PSYC 010 - Introduction to Psychological Science 4 hrs
  • SOCI 100 - Introduction to Sociology 3 hrs
  • EDUC 390 - Senior Seminar 3 hrs

Choose three from:


  • COMM 107 - Digital Storytelling 3 hrs
  • COMM 120 - Oral Communications 3 hrs
  • COMM 170 - Intercultural Communication 3 hrs
  • COMM 321 - Community Journalism 3 hrs
  • HIST 209 - African American History 3 hrs
  • HIST 211 - Public History 4 hrs
  • HIST 221 - American Women’s History 3 hr
  • NFPM 100 - Introduction to Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector 3 hrs
     
  • NFPM 130 - Making Change: Public Policy, Advocacy, and Grassroots Organizing 3 hrs
    OR
  • SOCI 130 - Making Change: Public Policy, Advocacy, and Grassroots Organizing 3 hrs
     
  • NFPM 140 - Foundations of Entrepreneurship 3 hrs
    OR
  • ENTR 120 - Foundations of Entrepreneurship 3 hrs
     
  • POLI 100 - Survey of Political Science 3 hrs
  • PSYC 100 - Developmental Psychology 3 hrs
     
  • PSYC 130 - Social Psychology 3 hrs
    OR
  • SOCI 205 - Social Psychology 3 hrs
     
  • PSYC 150 - Psychology of Personality 3 hrs
  • SOCI 202 - Race and Ethnic Relations 3 hrs
  • SOCI 220 - Social Stratification 3 hrs
  • SOCI 232 - Marriage and the Family 3 hrs

Teaching, Schools and Social Sciences Concentration:


  • ECON 100 - Principles of Economics 3 hrs
  • HIST 103 - World History I 3 hrs
  • HIST 104 - World History II 3 hrs
  • HIST 105 - United States History to 1877 3 hrs
  • HIST 106 - United States History Since 1877 3 hrs
     
  • POLI 100 - Survey of Political Science 3 hrs
    OR
  • POLI 120 - American Politics and Public Policy 3 hrs
     
  • SOCI 240 - Globalization and Global Inequities 3 hrs

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