History Major with Standard Concentration

This concentration prepares students to meet the standard History Program Objectives by training students in the historical discipline and its research methodologies.

Degree Requirements

A. Standard Concentration

Total Credit Hours:28

One North American History Course:

HIS 205Native American Histories: Colonialism and Resistance

4

HIS 215Women in American History

4

HIS 225The Age of the Civil War

4

HIS 229History of Sexuality

4

HIS 266Coming to America: The Immigrant Experience in History, Fiction and Film

4

HIS 275The Civil Rights Movement

4

HIS 304History of Florida

4

HIS 320Museums, Historic Sites and Archives

4

HIS 321Revolutionary America

4

HIS 326The History of U.S. Foreign Relations

4

HIS 335U.S. Constitutional History

4

Total Credit Hours:4

One European/Mediterranean History Course:

HIS 204Twentieth Century Europe

4

HIS 260The Holocaust

4

HIS 265The Origins of Western Thought in Ancient Greece

4

HIS 269Paris in the 1920s: The Cultural Impact of the Great War

4

HIS 292Drama and Society in Elizabethan London

4

HIS 302Revolutionary Europe 1712 to 1919

4

HIS 305The Ancient World

4

HIS 306The Middle Ages

4

HIS 308Renaissance and Reformation

4

Total Credit Hours:4

One Latin American, Asian, African or Middle Eastern History Course:

HIS 217China's Centuries of War and Revolution: since 1800

4

HIS 218History of the Islamic World

4

HIS 220Introduction to African History

4

HIS 221Japan's Modern Centuries

4

HIS 227China and the World to 1800

4

HIS 228Traditional Japan

4

HIS 236Latin America

4

HIS 300The Modern Middle East and North Africa

4

HIS 317China's Revolutionary Twentieth Century

4

HIS 322Spanish Caribbean and its Diasporas

4

HIS 323Age of Revolutions in the Americas

4

HIS 332Imperialism and Nationalism in Asia and Africa

4

Total Credit Hours:4

Four History Electives at Any Level.

Total Credit Hours:16

 

Upper-Level Course Requirements:

Students must take at least 16 credits in HIS courses numbered 300 or above, including courses taken in fulfillment of the History Core, as well as any of the requirements listed above.

Total Credit Hours: 44