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, courses in each of three regions, and chooses one of three concentrations: the “Standard Concentration,” the “American History and Law Concentration,” or the “Global History, Culture, and Geography 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
Total Credit Hours:		8

Regions Requirement (one course from each list):

This is a requirement for all History majors.

One North American History Course:

HIS 205	Native American Histories: Colonialism and Resistance	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	Museums, Historic Sites and Archives	4
HIS 321	Revolutionary America	4
HIS 326	The History of U.S. Foreign Relations	4
HIS 335	U.S. Constitutional History	4
Total Credit Hours:		4

One European/Mediterranean History Course:

HIS 204	Twentieth Century Europe	4
HIS 256	The Era of World War I	4
HIS 260	The Holocaust	4
HIS 302	Revolutionary Europe 1712 to 1919	4
HIS 305	The Ancient World	4
HIS 306	The Middle Ages	4
HIS 308	Renaissance and Reformation	4
Total Credit Hours:		4

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

HIS 128	History of the Islamic World	4
HIS 212	Witchcraft and Magic in the Early Modern Atlantic World	4
HIS 217	China's Centuries of War and Revolution: since 1800	4
HIS 220	Introduction to African History	4
HIS 221	Japan's Modern Centuries	4
HIS 227	China and the World to 1800	4
HIS 228	Traditional Japan	4
HIS 236	Latin America	4
HIS 300	The Modern Middle East and North Africa	4
HIS 317	China's Revolutionary Twentieth Century	4
HIS 322	Spanish Caribbean and its Diasporas	4
HIS 323	Revolutionary Black Atlantic	4
HIS 332	Imperialism and Nationalism in Asia and Africa	4
Total Credit Hours:		4