Broadfield Social Studies Education program

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Become a social studies teacher

UWL’s Broadfield Social Studies Education programs will prepare you to teach middle and high school social studies in grades 4-12. This undergraduate program includes both professional education coursework and clinical experiences.

The programs are part of the Secondary Teacher Education Preparation (STEP) program, housed within UWL’s History Department in the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CASSH).

Types of Careers in Broadfield Social Studies Education?

Graduates of UWL’s BFSS program receive a degree in Broadfield Social Studies and a license to teach social studies in grades 4-12 in the state of Wisconsin. The degree and license can also be used as a launching point for advanced degrees and licensure in social studies education, school counseling, and/or school administration.

Students who choose the history, political science, or sociology concentrations complete enough coursework to fulfill basic requirements to attain master's degrees in those subject areas.

Careers in social studies education

Middle school teacher
High school teacher
Historian
Political scientist
Sociologist
School counselor
School administrator

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What is Broadfield Social Studies Education?

The Broadfield Social Studies Education programs provide undergraduate content and skills-based training for teacher candidates seeking to teach social studies in grades 4-12. The program prepares candidates to teach all the disciplines associated with social studies, including economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology.

What distinguishes UWL’s Broadfield Social Studies Education program?

Learn teaching methods and theory

In addition to content courses in the social studies, students in the BFSS program are required to take a sequence of five courses related to teaching methods and theory with particular emphasis on teaching for social justice.

Learn to teach English learners

Students are required to take coursework designed to prepare them to teach English learners—a course unique to undergraduate teacher programs in the UW System.

Graduates find jobs

The BFSS program has a high job placement rate with the majority of graduates finding full-time teaching jobs within one year of graduation.

Four paths to choose from

Teacher candidates completing one of the STEP Broadfield Social Studies Education (BFSS) programs will complete at least 120 credits of coursework and will earn one of the following Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees, all leading to endorsement of a Middle and High School Social Studies license (grades 4-12). BFSS offers four distinct paths toward graduation and licensure, including a general BFSS program, and three others that allow students to choose an emphasis in the fields of History, Political Science, or Sociology.