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Academics: School of Education

Chowan University offers a specialized curriculum for preparing students for teaching Social Studies in 9th through 12th grade classes.

Social Studies Education students will learn:

• Geographic skills
• Characteristics of past and present societies
• Issues and problems that have persisted throughout history
• The social, political, and economic institutions in societies
• The political, economic, social, and psychological behavior of people
• The skills needed for problem solving, decision-making, planning,
  and participation
• Constructive attitudes toward diversity, change, conflict, and uncertainty
• And, apply this knowledge in a classroom of their own

By combining classes from across the Chowan campus, including:

• History
• Geography
• Criminal Justice
• Economics
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Education

Chowan University prepares Social Studies Education students with the broad base of knowledge they will need to teach the next generation.

Let Chowan University provide you with the education you
will need to educate others!

Dean F. Lawson Assistant Professor of History Coordinator of Social Studies Education

"I think I was fated to be a history professor. I have been interested in the past ever since I read Treasure Island as a child. Indeed, I wanted to be a pirate long before I knew there was an East Carolina University. Reading history and teaching history are my passions!! I am excited to be starting another chapter in my teaching career at Chowan University."

Education:
B.S. in History and Secondary Education, East Carolina University
M.A. in European History, East Carolina University
ABD in European History, the University of Alabama

Courses Taught or Teaching:
- Discovering the World
- Early Modern Europe
- England and Britain to 1603
- England and Britain since 1603
- The French Revolution