Breana Mehlhoff
Feb. 18 2012
Academic Plan SWOT Analysis

Major: History Education
Courses I Have completed:
-English 1010
- History 1700
- Intro to Film
- Geography 1300
- Sociology
- Humanities 1900
- Principles of Leadership
-Psychology
- Sociology
Classes I need to take:
CODE of When I Am Taking Courses: RED- Sophomore 1st semester. BLUE- Sophomore 2nd
semester. GREEN- Junior 1st Semester YELLOW- Junior 2nd Semester. ORANGE- Senior 1st
Semester. PURPLE- Senior 2nd Semester
- English 1020

- Ethics and values

- Personal health and wellness

- Humanities Distribution

- Social science

- Biology

- Health 1020

- Zoology

- US Economic History

- World History to 1877

- World History from 1877
- Nature of history

- History of Utah

- Teaching history in the secondary curriculum

- History of the US, Latin America, Europe/Russia, Comparative topical, Africa, Asia, Middle Eastern

- Exceptional student

- Educational Psychology

- Foundations of America

- Instructional Media

- Classroom management

- Content area reading and writing

- Multicultural instruction

- Global intercultural

- Student teaching

Strengths-
-Secure future jobs
-Always in high demand
-Interesting ancient history classes
-121 credit hours to graduate
-The amount of classes required fits perfectly into my outlined time line
-My personality is a hard working always needs to be interested type and this allows me to
always be learning, working hard and helping others.
-With this major and career I will be able to everyday be challenging myself to be better and
helping those whose position I once was in. This is exactly what I want.
Opportunities-
-This degree will be an obvious prerequisite for my teaching career that would otherwise not be a
possibility.
-I hope that the knowledge I gain from this will be something I can use to teach my family as
will and will keep me constantly learning and evolving.
-I luckily have two professors in this field that are dedicated to seeing me succeed and are a great
asset to this progress.
Weaknesses-
-The math and science courses will be difficult for me in this major I have always struggled with
them and wish I did not have to manage them.
-It will take me three more years to get this degree and I will then be prepared for the next step in
becoming a history teacher.
-This major will be what my entire life surrounds and I cannot wait to devote my entire life to it
not only the three years it takes to complete.
Threats-
-Financing my education is a concern I have that am working to manage by having a job that I
am able to support myself with while financial aid covers my tuition.
-The idea of social work interests me but I don’t plan on that being a major or lasting distraction.
-I worry that as the economy declines my position as a teacher will be increasingly hard to
obtain.