PRIN HIST/CULTUR STUDY STUDT GR7-12

Catalog description

This course focuses on social, cultural, and developmental contexts for teaching historical and cultural studies to a diverse population of students with disabilities at the grade 7-12 level. Course topics include curriculum development, methods, and materials; language and literature in cultural context; overview of history and geography of United States and New York State in addition to essentials of world history; planning and designing co-teaching and collaborative work with other teachers; overview and understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live – locally, nationally, and globally; how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources; how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problems through market and non-market mechanisms; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution and basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; ideas and ideals of citizenship; differing perspectives on the study of history; and interrelationships among historical, social, economic, political, and cultural forces effecting societies and the world.