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Dec 26, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
History Major
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(42 credits)
Degree Map
Learning Outcomes
The History Program offers students a broad liberal arts foundation that deepens their knowledge and understanding of the world, stimulates, effective participation in contemporary society, and cultivates deep-thinking skills required for success in a wide range of employment areas or graduate study.
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Required Courses (18 Credits)
Electives (24 credits):
- To complete the degree, the student must earn at least 3 credits at the 300- or 400-level (not including core courses) in each of the three geographical areas (A, B, and C). The remaining 15 credits may be taken from any 300- or 400-level HIST courses (not including core courses). 12 of the 24 elective credits must be at the 400-level.
Area A: United States
One course from the following list of 300-/400-level HIST courses: Area B: Ancient, early modern, and modern European history
One course from the following list of 300-/400-level HIST courses: Area C: The Wider World: Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
One course from the following list of 300-/400-level HIST courses:
Area D: Free Electives
15 Credits from the list of ALL 300-/400-level HIST courses in the current catalog (with the exception of HIST 302, 313, and 400). - HIST 320 - Comparative Slavery 3 Credits
- HIST 331 - U.S. Workers’ Fight for Justice 3 Credits
- HIST 333 - African American History to 1890 3 Credits
- HIST 334 - African American History, 1890 to present 3 Credits
- HIST 336 - The 1960s: Counterculture and Protest 3 Credits
- HIST 345 - Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies 3 Credits
- HIST 350 - Democracy as a Way of Life 3 Credits
- HIST 351 - The Ancient World 3 Credits
- HIST 353 - Medieval Europe 3 Credits
- HIST 355 - Early Modern Europe, 1500-1815 3 Credits
- HIST 356 - Modern Asia 3 Credits
- HIST 357 - Europe since 1750 3 Credits
- HIST 358 - The Atlantic World, 1500-1820 3 Credits
- HIST 395 - Independent Study in History 1-3 Credits
- HIST 399 - How We Got to Now 3 Credits
- HIST 402 - Travel Study in History 2-6 Credits
- HIST 404 - Internship in Public History 3 Credits
- HIST 408 - Nation-Building, Democracy, and Development in the Modern World 3 Credits
- HIST 409 - The Birth of Europe 3 Credits
- HIST 411 - The Colonial Experience 3 Credits
- HIST 412 - The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848-1877 3 Credits
- HIST 413 - Revolutionary America 3 Credits
- HIST 414 - Antebellum America, 1815-1848 3 Credits
- HIST 415 - The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1877-1917 3 Credits
- HIST 417 - The United States in Crisis 1917-1945 3 Credits
- HIST 418 - The United States’ Atomic Age, 1945 to the Present 3 Credits
- HIST 419 - Nazi Germany and the Holocaust 3 Credits
- HIST 420 - United States Foreign Relations to 1900 3 Credits
- HIST 421 - United States Diplomacy 3 Credits
- HIST 422 - The Rise and Fall of the Spanish World Empire 3 Credits
- HIST 425 - History of Indiana 3 Credits
- HIST 426 - History of the South 3 Credits
- HIST 433 - History of Labor in the United States 3 Credits
- HIST 434 - The History of Thought and Culture in the United States, to 1860 3 Credits
- HIST 435 - The History of Thought and Culture in the United States, 1860 to the Present 3 Credits
- HIST 436 - Indians and Europeans in Early America 3 Credits
- HIST 437 - Race and Nationality in the United States 3 Credits
- HIST 439A - Women in History: United States 3 Credits
- HIST 439B - Women in History: Europe 3 Credits
- HIST 439C - Women in History: Wider World 3 Credits
- HIST 444 - Latin America: The Colonial Era 3 Credits
- HIST 446 - Latin America and the United States 3 Credits
- HIST 447 - Contested Heritage: Making, Shaping, and Fighting over Public History 3 Credits
- HIST 455 - The Renaissance, 1300-1520 3 Credits
- HIST 456 - The Reformation, 1500-1650 3 Credits
- HIST 459 - Mapping History 3 Credits
- HIST 460 - Europe in the Twentieth Century 3 Credits
- HIST 466 - Modern Britain 3 Credits
- HIST 467 - Modern France 3 Credits
- HIST 468 - Modern Germany 3 Credits
- HIST 470 - Tsarist Russia 3 Credits
- HIST 471 - Modern Russia 3 Credits
- HIST 474 - World Empires 3 Credits
- HIST 478 - History of Islam 3 Credits
- HIST 484 - History of the Modern Middle East 3 Credits
- HIST 493 - Rise of Modern China 3 Credits
- HIST 494 - Topics in U.S. History 3 Credits
- HIST 496 - Topics in European History 3 Credits
- HIST 498 - Topics in World History 3 Credits
- HIST 499 - Topics in History (Oral History: Methods and Practice) 1-3 Credits
Note:
Students desiring a more specialized program may declare the following concentration in place of the Electives: Public and Applied History Concentration (24 credits):
Required History (6 credits):
Directed History Electives (18 credits):
- 6 credits from (Area A) United States;
- 6 credits from (Area B) Ancient, early modern, and modern European history;
- 6 credits from (Area C) The Wider World: Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
At least 12 credits must be at the 400-level, with at least one 400-level course in each area of study. A student may substitute three credits of directed electives with appropriate cognate courses taken in other departments. These cognate courses must be approved by the History Department Chair. Degree Map
Students interested in the Public and Applied History Concentration should work with their advisor to create their individualized MySAM degree map.
Spring 2nd Year
- HIST 302 - United States History 3 Credits
- Foundational Studies: Ethics and Social Responsibility | 3 Credits
- Major Elective Area A, B or C | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
15 Credits
Fall 3rd Year
- Major Elective Area A, B, or C | 3 Credits
- Foundational Studies: Junior Composition | 3 Credits
- Foundational Studies: Fine and Performing Arts | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
15 Credits
Spring 3rd Year
- Major Elective (300 or 400 Level) | 3 Credits
- Major Elective (300 or 400 Level) | 3 Credits
- Foundational Studies: UDIE | 3 Credits
- Elective (300 or 400 Level) | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
15 Credits Fall 4th Year
- Major Elective (300 or 400 Level) | 3 Credits
- Major Elective (300 or 400 Level) | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
- Elective (300 or 400 Level) | 3 Credits
15 Credits Spring 4th Year
- HIST 400 - History Capstone Seminar 3 Credits
- Major Elective (300 or 400 Level) | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
- Elective (300 or 400 Level) | 2 Credits
14 Credits
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