The History Secondary Education Minor at Eastern satisfies the requirements for the minor endorsement for teaching history in grades 5–12. In this program, you’ll study U.S. history, the history of the Pacific Northwest, as well as European history and choose between either Asian or Latin American history.
The following information comes from the official EWU catalog, which outlines all degree requirements and serves as the guide to earning a degree. Courses are designed to provide a well-rounded and versatile degree, covering a wide range of subject areas.
History Education/Secondary Minor
The Social Studies program at Eastern Washington University assists students seeking a Bachelor of Arts in Education (BAE) with a Social Studies Major endorsement as well as a History Minor endorsement.
The minor is for students pursuing a major endorsement for a BAE and want to add a History Secondary Minor endorsement to their program plan. This minor is designed to help prepare students to teach 5th–12th grade history classes, including World History, U.S. History, and Washington State History.
This minor satisfies the state endorsement for grades 5–12.
For information, see the Social Studies program and contact: Dr. Jacki Hedlund Tyler, PhD
Grade Requirements: each course requires a grade ≥B-.
| Required Foundation Courses | ||
| HIST 102 | WORLD HISTORY TO 1500 | 5 |
| or HIST 103 | WORLD HISTORY FROM 1500 | |
| HIST 111 | AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1877 (a BACR for humanities and arts or a BACR for Social Science) | 5 |
| or HIST 112 | AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE 1877 | |
| HIST 204 | EAST ASIA: TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION | 5 |
| Upper-Division History Courses | ||
| HIST/IDST 316 | AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY I | 5 |
| or HIST/IDST 317 | AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY II | |
| HIST 444 | HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST | 5 |
| Choose one upper-division U.S. History Course | 5 | |
| Choose one upper-division non-U.S. History Course | 5 | |
| Total Credits | 35 | |
Cross-listed: GWSS 351.
Pre-requisites: ENGL 201 or permission of instructor.
This course explores the relationship between social constructions of gender and the history of war in the 20th century. Topics include how gender is used to justify war and the use of gender ideologies in pacifist movements. The course also looks at ways that individual men and women experienced war and war’s effects on the social, sexual, psychological, political and economic aspects of individuals’ lives.
Cross-listed: GWSS 383.
Pre-requisites: ENGL 201 or permission of instructor.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–diversity.
Students will study women’s experiences in American history from pre-colonial society to the 21st century. Students will reconsider traditional timelines and motivations in the development of the United States, while analyzing how women’s experiences have been shaped not just by their gender identity, but also by their racial, ethnic, sexual, cultural and class identities. Students will evaluate the distinct and unique roles of women in national events and major transitions in American society.
Pre-requisites: HIST 290 or HIST 389 and junior standing; or permission of instructor.
This seminar is designed to help advanced history students develop the skills needed to conduct primary-source research and write successful papers. This course prepares students for work in other advanced history courses, in the history capstone course, writing papers for academic conferences and for graduate study in history and related fields.
Pre-requisites: ENGL 201 or permission of instructor.
The course explores the ways men and women have lived in and thought about their natural environment in the United States. It begins with the colonists who thought of the wilderness as a realm to conquer and concludes with the contemporary American environmentalists who seek to "preserve" the wilderness. The course makes extensive use of films and books in exploring this theme.