4. Admission to the program and advisement are complex, so communicate early and often.
Admission to Teacher Education
When you enter KSU, either as a first year student or a transfer, you’ll sign up as a HIED-Interest major. As a HIED-Interest major, while you take your your general education courses, you will be advised by someone in the Bagwell College of Education (BCOE) who will help you select General Education courses and get ready for admission to the BCOE.
In order to be admitted to the BCOE, you must have completed a series of requirements
related to coursework, GPA, GaPSC registration, and entrance exams.
HIST 3271 Application
Once you are admitted to BCOE, your major will be changed to BS in History Education.
In order to start your preservice sequence in HIED, you must submit your application
to BCOE by the time summer semester grades are due, in late July. However, because
we need to make sure we have space in our classes, you must notify us of your intent
to start the preservice sequence by completing the application for the preservice sequence by March 10 of the year you intend to take HIST 3271.
You will be assigned an advisor in the HIED program (Drs. Conner, McGovern, Okie, Traille, or Wynn). This advisor assignment is not an automatic process, though, so if you are admitted to BCOE but you don’t see a new advisor in Owl Express/Degreeworks, send an email to the HIED Program Coordinator to get that sorted out.
HIST 3100 and the Research Seminar
As a HIED major, you’ll take 5 upper-level (3000 or 4000-level) elective history electives in nonwestern (2 courses), European (2 courses), and United States (2 courses). One of these courses must be a research seminar, either HIST 4495 (US), 4496 (Europe), 4497 (nonwestern), or 4498 (world). Research seminars are taught by different professors and deal with different topics each semester (in Spring 2022, for instance, the research seminars were American Revolution, the Civil War home front, Revolutions, the Ottoman Empire, and the history of information). A few things you should know:
- Registering for a research seminar requires an override, which you can request using
the History Department Override Request Form.
- Research seminars are not offered in the summer, or online. They must be taken as
part of your face-to-face load during spring or fall semester, and they cannot be
completed in your final year (YCE I or II).
- HIST 3100, Historical Methods, is a prerequisite for a research seminar. You have
to have taken it before you can start a research seminar.
Our advice:
Take HIST 3100 early, in your second year if you can, but by the fall of your second-to-last
year at the latest (along with HIST 3271) Take a US, nonwestern, or world research seminar in order to maximize geographical
coverage for your teaching content.
hist 3271 application
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