History Major

The History major prepares students to use knowledge of the past, of human diversity and complexity, of contingency and of continuity, in order to consider the limits and possibilities of human choices in the modern world. Students develop skills of analysis, including the ability to understand context, to understand change and continuity over time, and to draw conclusions from diffuse, fragmentary and biased sources, including non-quantifiable evidence. The History major prepares students for the choices and responsibilities they will encounter as participants in a free polity and as agents in a global society, while also developing skills in reading, writing, research, and analysis useful in diverse professional fields. The History major is excellent preparation for graduate study and careers in law, public administration, business, library science and information management, non-governmental organizations, consulting, teaching, military service, non-fiction writing, foreign service, museum work and public history.

Each student takes the required core courses and chooses one of three concentrations: the “Standard Concentration,” the “American History and Law Concentration,” or the “Global History and Culture Concentration.”

Degree Requirements

Required Core Courses for a Major in History:

HIS 201	The Historian's Craft	4
	and
HIS 400	History Capstone Research Seminar	4
	or
HIS 451	Senior Thesis	4
Total Credit Hours:		8

A. Standard Concentration

Students must select 36 credits from the following.

Total Credit Hours:

Two Introductory Survey Courses:

HIS 102	World History to 1500	4
	And one of the following courses:
HIS 103	World History from 1500 to the Present	4
HIS 202	The United States to 1877	4
HIS 203	The United States Since 1877	4
Total Credit Hours:		8

One North American History Course:

HIS 205	Indians/Native Americans of North America	4
HIS 215	Women in American History	4
HIS 225	The Age of the Civil War	4
HIS 229	History of Sexuality	4
HIS 275	The Civil Rights Movement	4
HIS 304	History of Florida	4
HIS 320	Introduction to Public History	4
HIS 321	Revolutionary America	4
HIS 326	The History of U.S. Foreign Relations	4
HIS 330	America in the 1960s	4
HIS 335	U.S. Constitutional History	4
HISH 266	Coming to America: The Immigrant Experience in History, Fiction and Film	4
Total Credit Hours:		4

One European/Mediterranean History Course:

HIS 214	Russia's Modern Centuries	4
HIS 260	The Holocaust	4
HIS 302	Revolutionary Europe 1789 to 1919	4
HIS 305	The Ancient World	4
HIS 306	The Middle Ages	4
HIS 308	Renaissance and Reformation	4
HIS 312	Europe Since 1919	4
HIS 413	The Era of World War I	4
HISH 265	Secular and Sacred: The Greek and Judeo-Christian Origins of Western Civilization	4
HISH 269	Paris in the 1920s: The Cultural Impact of the Great War	4
HISH 292	Drama and Society in Periclean Athens and Elizabethan London	4
Total Credit Hours:		4

One Latin American, Asian, African or Middle Eastern History Course:

HIS 217	China's Modern Centuries	4
HIS 218	History of the Islamic World	4
HIS 220	Introduction to African History	4
HIS 221	Japan's Modern Centuries	4
HIS 227	Traditional China	4
HIS 228	Traditional Japan	4
HIS 300	The Modern Middle East and North Africa	4
HIS 313	Latin America	4
HIS 322	Spanish Caribbean and its Diasporas	4
HISH 232	Imperialism and Nationalism in Asia and Africa	4
HISH 317	China's Revolutionary Twentieth Century	4
HISH 327	Women and Gender in East Asia	4
Total Credit Hours:		4

Four History Electives at Any Level

Total Credit Hours:

Upper-Level Course Requirements:

Students must take at least 16 credits in courses numbered 300 or above, including courses taken in fulfillment of the History Core, as well as any of the requirements listed above.

Total Credit Hours: 44