History
Shaping Our Future by Understanding Our Past

“Next to God’s Word, history is…the richest foundation of wisdom, and the surest guide.” These words by the noted historian Philip Schaff capture the sensibility that the Calvin College History Department tries to cultivate in the classroom. They mean that, at Calvin, history is not a dry recital of names and dates but an investigation of how things in human society work, and how they tend to work out. They mean that we take delight in exploring times and peoples very different from ourselves — yet quite familiar when we get to know them...

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History News

• Calvin Scores High On National Study Of History
• Jelks Book Earns Honor
• Jelks Earns Prestigious Fellowship
• Calvin To Host Renowned Middle East Expert
• History Student Selected For Teach America

Alumni

• Calvin graduates can be found around the world, from elementary schools to research universities. Recent graduates are currently doing doctoral work at universities across the country, from Yale and Vanderbilt to Chicago and Iowa to Southern California and UC Davis.

Profoundly Academic

• Seventeen full-time professors, with Ph.Ds, teach all the classes from a Christian perspective.
  
• Calvin is ranked in the top 5% of all college graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D.

Major and minor concentrations

• World History Major
  • Secondary or Elementary Education
• European History Major
  • Secondary or Elementary Education
• U.S. History Major
  • Secondary or Elementary Education (Major & Minor)
  • Non-Education History Minor
  • Elementary Social Studies Group Major
  • Elementary and Secondary Social Studies Group Minor
• Archaeology Minor
• Medieval Studies Minor
• African and African Diaspora Studies Minor

Related Links

• History Colloquium
• Off-Campus Programs: Great Britain, Hungary, Ghana, China, and Umm el-Jimal

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