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Jun 17, 2026
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2026-2027 University Catalog
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EDCI 36100 - Social Studies In The Elementary School
Credit Hours: 3.00. Provides students with an overview of the field of social studies, of selected issues in the field, and of best practice strategies for teaching social studies to elementary school children. Encourages participants to reflect on social studies knowledge, skills and dispositions, how students learn these most effectively, and how best to teach social studies. Includes a field-based experiential component. No undergraduate students may be enrolled in any of these undergraduate courses until they have been admitted to teacher education.
Learning Outcomes
1. Students will work to identify the most important social studies knowledge, skills and dispositions.
2. Investigate how students learn most effectively.
3. Utilize their new understandings to draw conclusions about what constitutes powerful teaching in the social studies.
Credit Hours: 3.00
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