History, BA

54 credit hours

A Bachelor of Arts in History provides the knowledge and skills that successful students need to prepare them for teaching at the high school level, attending graduate school especially in history or law, or pursuing a career in public history such as working in archives, museums, or historical sites. Their skills and knowledge also make them educated individuals ready to work at any career requiring literate persons.

Requirements

A major in history requires 54 credit hours of coursework through the Department of History and Geography as well as the general education requirements listed below.

Six required courses:

HIS 20000	History of the Contemporary World	3
HIS 20300	Historical Methods	3
HIS 22300	The Ancient and Medieval World	3
HIS 30100	Early Modern Europe	3
HIS 30200	Modern Europe	3
HIS 40000	Senior Seminar in History	3

One course selected from the following options:

HIS 21500	American History to 1865 Advanced Survey	3
HIS 10500	America: Colony to Civil War	3

One course selected from the following options:

HIS 21600	American History Since 1865 Advanced Survey	3
HIS 10600	America: Civil War to World Power	3

One course selected from the following options:

HIS 20500	History of Asia	3
HIS 22000	History of Latin America	3

One course selected from the following options:

HIS 35000	Applied History	3-6
HIS 45000	History Internship	3-6
EDU 41000	Student Teaching	12

Two courses of European history selected from the following options:

HIS 26100	History of the British Isles	4
HIS 32900	Church and State in Early Modern Europe	3
HIS 33000	European Intellectual History	3
HIS 33200	Revolution in the Modern World	3
HIS 33600	The Civilization of Industrialism	3
HIS 33700	The Soviet Union and European Communism	3
HIS 33800	War and Society in the Twentieth Century	3
HIS 35500	Europe Since 1945	3

Three courses of United States history, two of which must be at or above the 30000 level, selected from the following options:

HIS 20700	American Military History though World War Two	3
HIS 21400	American Military History Since 1941	3
HIS 23200	History of American Sports	3
HIS 30800	The Origins of the United States to 1800	3
HIS 30900	The Age of Jackson	3
HIS 31000	The Civil War and Reconstruction	3
HIS 31200	The Growth of Modern America, 1877-1914	3
HIS 31400	Economic History of America	3
HIS 31500	History of Gender in America	3
HIS 31600	A Biography of the Constitution	3
HIS 31700	The American West 1830-1960	3
HIS 31800	History of Race in America	3
HIS 32000	The United States 1918-1945: Prosperity, Depression, and War	3
HIS 32100	The United States in the Age of the Cold War	3

History majors must take one of the following:

GEO 20100	World Regional Geography	3
GEO 20200	Concepts of Geography	3
GEO 20700	World Economic Geography	3
GEO 30100	World Historical Geography	3

which will fulfill a cross cultural general education requirement.

History majors must take:

HIS 15500	U.S. Government: Politics and History	3
	OR
PS 15500	American Government: The Nation	3

to fulfill the general education US history/government requirement.

History majors must take:

ECON 23010	Survey of Economics	3
	OR
HIS 31400	Economic History of America	3

to fulfill one of the general education social science requirements. If students take HIS 31400 for economics credit, they cannot count it as a history (HIS) elective.

It is recommended that history majors take:

HIS 22100	Global History Since 1500	3
HIS 21500	American History to 1865 Advanced Survey	3
HIS 21600	American History Since 1865 Advanced Survey	3

to fulfill the general education world history and the United States survey history requirements.