History Courses: 33 to 37 hours (including 100-level survey
sequence[s])
Supporting Course Work: 20 hours (chosen in consultation with an
adviser)
Students in the history major should acquire a broad background from
the study of the human experience in different cultures and time
periods. A wide distribution of courses is therefore advisable; this
is especially true for those who wish to enter teaching, government
service, or professional schools for law, social work, museum and
library science, business administration, or labor and industrial
relations.
1. A prerequisite to advanced work in history is one survey sequence ( HIST 110 or HIST 111 and HIST 112 or HIST 113, HIST 231, HIST 232, (replacing HIST 131, HIST 132), HIST 151- HIST 152, HIST 168- HIST 388, HIST 170 and HIST 222, HIST 267, HIST 285, or HIST 286; HIST 173 and HIST 322 or HIST 323; HIST 175-HIST 176 HIST 174 and HIST 375, HIST 377, HIST 378; or HIST 181- HIST 182).
2. A second sequence may also be taken, but at least 21 of the
required hours of history courses must be at the 200 and 300
level.
3. One of the courses, at any level, must be in a pre-modern period
of history.
4. The history courses must include at least 12 hours in a first
area of emphasis and at least 9 hours in a second area. The following
areas may be selected: ancient-medieval; Renaissance-Early Modern
Europe to 1789; Modern Europe from 1789 to present; the United States;
Latin America; Africa, Near and Middle East; South and East Asia;
Russia and Eastern Europe; History of Women and Gender; Military
History; History of Science; African-American History and the History
of Race Relations.
5.
HIST 298 must be taken as part of the 33 to 37 hours required except
for students who successfully complete two semesters of
HIST 293.
6. At least 20 hours of supporting course work must be taken outside
the history department, including
C LIT 141-142 for those who have not had
HIST 110 or
HIST 111 and
HIST 112 or
HIST 113. Twelve of the 20 hours
of supporting courses must be at the 200 and 300 level. Traditional areas
for such work are ancient and modern languages (excluding the first-year elementary courses
and also excluding the second-year courses if those courses are being used to fulfill the
language requirement in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences), anthropology, art history,
classical archaeology and civilization, economics, English, American and comparative literature,
geography, library science, music history, philosophy, political
science, psychology, religious studies, and sociology. Nonhistory
courses chosen from the multidisciplinary fields of women's studies,
African studies, Asian studies, Latin American studies, Russian
language and area studies, medieval civilization, Renaissance
civilization, American civilization, and cine ma studies are also
accepted as supporting course work if they meet the criteria of
relevance and academic level. History of science students and
premedical and predental students may offer work in the physical and
life sciences. All supporting course work should be related by time,
area, and/or topic to the major and is subject to the approval of the
history department adviser.
For details on the major in history and the honors program, see the
adviser in 300
Gregory Hall .
Departmental Distinction. To be eligible for distinction, a
student must have at least a 4.5 grade-point average, complete a
senior thesis, and receive the approval of an examining committee. The
examining committee will determine the level of distinction to be
awarded.
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