Middle-Grade Social Science

Elementary Education 

Any elementary teacher candidate applying for an initial Illinois Professional Educator
license and seeking a subsequent middle-grade social science endorsement to be added
to the license will need to

• complete 18 semester hours of approved mathematics-related coursework
  including the 2-credit course HIST 325 Methods of Teaching Middle-Grade
  History/Social Science. (Wheaton elementary education majors will automatically
  have completed 2 credits toward the endorsement by completing the required
  course SSCI 321. Also, students will likely have completed some additional credits
  toward this endorsement by taking courses (tagged or not) with the following
  prefixes: HIST, ECON, PSCI, IR, GEOG, and SSCI).
• pass the state’s middle-level social science content exam. This is in addition to
  passing the elementary content exam.
• complete a Wheaton-approved practicum in a middle school.
  Any social science-related course counted toward the middle-grade endorsement must
  have a final grade of C- or higher.

Secondary Education

Secondary Education students who are also social science majors will automatically
receive the middle-grade social science endorsement as part of their program; however,
they will need to pass the state’s middle-level social science content exam.