Undergraduate Foundation Program WSU’s Undergraduate Foundation program provides additional academic and/or English language support and personalized advising to help students smoothly transition to full university study. Students are unconditionally admitted to the university and graduate in the same amount of time as direct-entry students – they are just provided with additional support courses. Bachelor of Arts - Social Studies To teach social studies in middle school or high school, students will need a bachelor’s degree in the subject with teacher certification. The social studies teaching program at WSU integrates professional education coursework with the major and leads to Washington state teacher certification.