If you want to teach social studies on the high school level, consider this major. It will help prepare you to qualify for Indiana licensing to teach in public schools. Students majoring in social studies teaching can select economics as one of three social studies discipline areas. This major, with 57-66 credit hours, is a social studies program in the College of Sciences and Humanities. The Department of Economics is a supporting department for the economics area.
To graduate, you’ll need a minimum of 120 hours. See all the requirements for bachelor's degrees and the University Core Curriculum. You can look up complete required economics course and course descriptions on Teaching Major in Social Studies, economics area in the Undergraduate Catalog.
Freshmen may declare a teaching major in social studies by meeting with the freshman advisor in Academic Advising in North Quad, room 339. You may select economics as an area of concentration at this time.
If you do not initially select economics but wish to add it as an area of concentration later, you should contact the faculty advisor for the teaching major in social studies, Sarah Drake Brown.
If you have specific questions on the economics concentration area, contact the faculty advisor for economics majors, Tung Liu.
Get the specifics on the social studies teaching majors from the Department of History.