ENDORSEMENT NO. 166
Social Sciences—World History
GRADE LEVEL: 5-12
Institution Name:
Date Submitted:
(Form revision 03/2010)
New or Revised (If this is a revision, also submit a letter explaining the changes made)
Undergraduate or Graduate
Professional Education Core:
Requirements unique to this endorsement:
(Add additional requirements from the core that are met in courses taken within the content area rather than a generic education course.)
STATE REQUIREMENTS
Professional Core
INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Course(s) for Demonstrating Competencies
Methods of teaching with an emphasis in Social Science
EDU 324 Secondary Mathematics, Science and Social Studies
EDU 328 Reading in the Content Area
EDU 410, 420, 430, 440 Student Teaching Student Teaching in World History
Content:
A. Completion of a thirty semester hour teaching major which must minimally include
B. Completion of twenty-four semester hours in World history or
C. Thirty semester hours in the broad area of social sciences to include fifteen semester hours in
World history.
Option 1:
STATE REQUIREMENTS
Content Categories
24 semester hours in World
History
INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Course Numbers and Titles
1. HIS 101 Europe: 800-1300
2. HIS 102 Europe 1300-1700
4
4
3. HIS 104 Modern Europe and Its Critics 4
Credit
Hrs.
4. HIS 255 American Lives 4
5. HIS 304 Europe 16th & 17 th
Century 4
6. HIS 315 Diplomacy of War and
Revolution
4
…HIS 324 Modern Germany
HIS 356 African American in U.S. History
HIS 353 Civil War and Reconstruction
4
4
4
TOTAL Credit Hours 36
OR
Option 2:
STATE REQUIREMENTS
Content Categories
30 semester hours in the broad area of Social Sciences to include 15 semester hours in
World History
INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Course Numbers and Titles
1. HIS 101 Europe: 800-1300 4
2. HIS 104 Modern Europe and Its Critics 4
3. HIS 141 Latin American History
4. HIS 210 Warfare and Society in
Modern Times
4
4
Credit
Hrs.

5. A major in any Cornell social science
TOTAL Credit Hours 24