History, B.A.

Major Requirements (36 Credits)

• General Surveys (3 credits). Students must take three credits in one of the following three courses: HIST 1101, 1201, or 1202 to satisfy this requirement.
• History 2001W: The Historian’s Craft (4 credits), with a grade of C or higher. History 2001W is a prerequisite for all history courses numbered in the 4000s.
• Lower-division courses (at least 21 credits), including at least three credits in each of the geographic regions a), b), c), and d), below. Within the specific geographic regions listed below, all students majoring in history must take at least one course from before 1500 from among the following: HIST 3001, 3002, 3003, 3015, 3021, 3022, 3023, 3024, 3025, 3030, 3031, 3033, 3040, 3044, 3090, 3100, 3101, 3310, 3317, 3352, 3530, 3532, 3536, 3560
  • a) African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American, and Middle Eastern history, at least one of the following courses: HIST 3030, 3100, 3317, 3345, 3350, 3335, 3373, 3510, 3512, 3515, 3517, 3530, 3532, 3534, 3535, 3536, 3538, 3543, 3545, 3548, 3550, 3554, 3557, 3560, 3561, 3590.
  • b) European history, at least one of the following courses: HIST 3001, 3002, 3021, 3023, 3024, 3031, 3033, 3040, 3044, 3050, 3070, 3080, 3101, 3102, 3104, 3206, 3208, 3209, 3210, 3212, 3220, 3230, 3231, 3241, 3242, 3243, 3252, 3254, 3255, 3290, 3371, 3332, 3554.
  • c) Transnational and/or comparative history, and/or global history, at least one of the following courses: HIST 3001, 3003, 3021, 3022, 3025, 3100, 3317, 3104, 3255, 3310, 3315,3320, 3323, 3325, 3328, 3330, 3335, 3336, 3337, 3339, 3345, 3350, 3352, 3335, 3360, 3370, 3371, 3372 , 3373, 3390, 3450, 3455, 3460, 3510, 3512, 3515, 3517, 3543, 3548, 3550, 3557, 3560, 3561.
  • d) U.S. history, at least one of the following courses: HIST 3374, 3410, 3412, 3413, 3414, 3416, 3418, 3419, 3420, 3424, 3430, 3435 , 3440, 3441, 3442, 3450, 3452, 3453, 3454, 3455, 3458, 3460, 3462, 3470, 3472, 3475, 3476, 3478, 3479, 3480, 3485, 3490

Courses may count only toward one distribution category. “Other lower-division courses” count as additional course elective requirements, not as distribution requirements.

And any three additional courses, excluding HIST 1101, 1201, and 1202. Note that HIST 3090 may satisfy any one of the four distribution requirements a-d, but always satisfies the pre-1500 requirement.

• Upper-division courses (8 credits). Eight credits in upper-division, 4000-level courses with a grade of C or higher in each course. One of these courses must be a colloquium.

History majors fulfilling program requirements described in earlier Bulletins should validate their programs with a department counselor at the time they declare the major. With permission of the chair, one course taken outside the department may count toward the major. With permission of the chair, in consultation with the department, a course taken in History may be substituted for another, where warranted and for distribution purposes.