Updated 2013-14 Undergraduate Catalog

History, B.A. major

Required Credits: 45
Required GPA: 2.25

I REQUIRED COURSES

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING COURSES:

• HST 1114 United States History I, to 1877 (3 credits)
• HST 1115 United States History II, since 1877 (3 credits)
• HST 1304 World History I, Prehistory-1500 (3 credits)
• HST 1305 World History II, 1500-Present (3 credits)
• HST 2772 The Craft Of The Historian (3 credits)
• HST 3772 Readings In History (3 credits)
• HST 4782 Pre-Thesis Seminar (2 credits)
• HST 4783 Senior Thesis (1 credit)

II REQUIRED ELECTIVES

A. AMERICAN/UNITED STATES
SELECT 1 OF THE FOLLOWING COURSES:

• HST 2617 Film and American History (3 credits)
• HST 2650 Witchcraft and Magic in Early America (3 credits)
• HST 2667 Men and Women: Gender in America (3 credits)
• HST 3117 American Revolutionary Era, 1763-1800 (3 credits)
• HST 3128 Testing Democracy: Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (3 credits)
• HST 3137 Civil War and Reconstruction, 1844-1877 (3 credits)
• HST 3159 The World at War, 1931-1945 (3 credits)
• HST 3169 History of the Vietnam War (3 credits)
• HST 3187 American West (3 credits)

B. EUROPEAN
SELECT 1 OF THE FOLLOWING COURSES:

• HST 2208 Greece and Rome, 1500 BCE-500 CE (3 credits)
• HST 2218 Medieval Europe (3 credits)
• HST 2228 Renaissance and Reformation Europe (3 credits)
• HST 3258 Foundations of the Western Legal Traditions (3 credits)
• HST 3268 The Roman Revolution, 200 BCE-CE 14 (3 credits)

C. NON-WESTERN
SELECT 1 OF THE FOLLOWING COURSES:

• HST 2700 World Religions (3 credits)
• HST 3409 Colonialism and Modernization in the Non-Western World (3 credits)
• HST 3419 East Asia (3 credits)
• HST 3429 South and Southeast Asia (3 credits)
• HST 3449 Middle East (3 credits)
• HST 3459 Latin America (3 credits)

III OTHER REQUIRED ELECTIVES

SELECT 15 SEMESTER CREDITS OF HISTORY COURSES NUMBERED
ABOVE 2200 OR, WITH CONSENT OF THE DEPARTMENT
CHAIR, RELEVANT COURSES IN ALLIED DISCIPLINES.

SUGGESTED SEMESTER SCHEDULE FOR HISTORY MAJOR, B.A. OR B.S.

The following is a list of required history courses arranged by year. This schedule is intended to help you take your courses in an orderly fashion and complete your major in four years. These are only suggestions. The program is flexible, and you have some choice as to when to take certain courses.

Freshman

• HST 1304 World History I, Prehistory-1500 (3 credits)
• HST 1305 World History II, 1500-Present (3 credits)
• Liberal Education Requirements

Sophomore

• HST 1114 United States History I, to 1877 (3 credits)
• HST 1115 United States History II, since 1877 (3 credits)
• HST 2772 The Craft Of The Historian (3 credits)
• Liberal Education Requirements

Junior

• HST 3772 Readings In History (3 credits)
• Complete II. Required Electives: A,B,C
• Liberal Education Requirements
• Professional Education courses for B.S. (Teacher Licensure) students

Senior

• HST 4782 Pre-Thesis Seminar (2 credits)
• HST 4783 Senior Thesis (1 credit)
• History electives numbered above 2500
• Complete Liberal Education Requirements
• Complete Professional Education courses for B.S. ( Teacher Licensure) students