The Department of History at San José State University is a vibrant center of learning for nearly 300 undergraduate and graduate History majors, plus hundreds more undergraduate students enrolled in History survey courses that fulfill General Education and American Institutions graduation requirements. The department has nine full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty and fourteen part-time or full-time lecturers. We offer courses that cover most of the world and all periods of time. The Social Science Teacher Preparation Program in SJSU's Department of History offers upper-division undergraduate courses that are intended for future K-12 teachers. The courses are designed to prepare students with the content knowledge and grade-level specific pedagogical strategies they will need to teach in California public school classrooms. The History Department works with the College of Education/Teacher Preparation Department to coordinate the applications, courses, and student teaching supervision for graduates receiving a single subject teaching credential in Social Science.