History major
Admission to the program
When you have completed History 151 or 152, or 151/152 honors, and receive a "C" (2.0) or better, you can be admitted into the History major program.
Your program
As a History major, you and your departmental advisor will design a program that fits your interests in history and related areas, your vocational goals, and the demands of historical study.
While foreign language is not require for History majors, we encourage you to study one. Talk to your departmental advisor early in your college career about a language, modern or classical, that fits your goals.
You can take one upper-level interim course as an elective in any of the History majors or minors.
To make you a well-rounded historian, your program will include at least one course on a period before 1500 and at least one course on a period after 1500.
Probably in your senior year you will take History 394, the research seminar, in conjunction with a 300-level course in your field of interest. Together, these courses will enable you to use primary sources to write an article-length, senior thesis paper on a topic of interest to you. Besides History 394 and 395, you will take at least two courses on the 300 level.
Graduating with honors
If you wish to graduate with honors, you will need to be accepted into the honors program early in your program.
