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Dec 26, 2024
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Academic Catalog 2024-2025
History, BA
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Introduction
The major in History teaches students how to analyze individuals, ideas, events, and organizations from the past. By honing critical reading, thinking, and writing skills, majors can transfer these abilities to a wide array of careers in education, the law, business, banking, and so much more.
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Major Requirements: 38 Credits
All of the Following: 34 credits
- 100-level HIST course(s) 4 credit(s)
- 200-level history courses 8 credit(s)
- At least 16 credits of 300-level or above in history (excluding HIST 391, HIST 491, and HIST 492), an approved internship, or approved study abroad credits.
Program Details
Program Length
Four years for a complete BA degree. Two years for students transferring in with an AAOT degree. Program length may vary depending upon the student’s course load and academic progress.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Historical Knowledge: Demonstrate fundamental knowledge of key facts, themes, and ideas in the history of the topic under study.
- Historiography: Critically evaluate how historians and others have interpreted the past, and understand the stakes of conversations among historians within defined historical fields.
- Critical Thinking and Intellectual Integration: Synthesize historical arguments based on the analysis of primary source evidence and secondary source interpretations.
- Research Skills: Conduct basic historical research including the effective use of libraries, archives, and online databases.
- Oral Communication Skills: Demonstrate their mastery of historical knowledge and practice through classroom discussion, debates, and oral presentations.
- Writing Skills: Demonstrate their mastery of historical knowledge and practice through clear and coherent written work.
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