If a teacher double majors in Education and the Humanities what can s/he teach?
To be a middle or high school teacher, you usually have to double major in Education and the subject you want to teach.
One of the options is the Humanities. Does this mean that a teacher could teach English and Social Studies (History, Geography, European History, etc.)?
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I feel like the other major would have to be History in order to teach History. Are there really schools that offer a Humanities major? How broad. It’s like colleges that offer degrees in Liberal Arts with no concentration. Not sure how that would look on a résumé. It basically screams, “I have no clue what I want to do with my life.”
I say choose a concentration that’s more specific.
The teacher could teach whatever the teacher is hired to teach, I would suppose.
PhysEd, Math, Languages, Biology, History… whatever.
Yes you can teach English and social science, some other subjects would be Business Studies, Computer Science, Economics, Geography, History, ICT, Philisophy, Politics, Psychology etc.
“Humanities” sounds very general to me, sounds like you’d get a basic overview in subjects like history, social studies, politics etc, but not in sufficient depth at any of them to be able to teach as a speciallist subject. Might be useful if you don’t yet know what you want to speaciallise in, and are prepared to engage in further study after the current course is complete.
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