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

Whichever concentration the student chooses, all students must complete the Survey and Core requirements (16 credits) listed under "History Major."

One North American History Course:

HIS 205	Native American Histories: Colonialism and Resistance	4
HIS 215	Women in American History	4
HIS 225	The Age of the Civil War	4
HIS 229	History of Sexuality	4
HIS 266	Coming to America: The Immigrant Experience in History, Fiction and Film	4
HIS 275	The Civil Rights Movement	4
HIS 304	History of Florida	4
HIS 320	Museums, Historic Sites and Archives	4
HIS 321	Revolutionary America	4
HIS 326	The History of U.S. Foreign Relations	4
HIS 335	U.S. Constitutional History	4
Total Credit Hours:		4

One European/Mediterranean History Course:

HIS 204	Twentieth Century Europe	4
HIS 260	The Holocaust	4
HIS 269	Paris in the 1920s: The Cultural Impact of the Great War	4
HIS 302	Revolutionary Europe 1712 to 1919	4
HIS 305	The Ancient World	4
HIS 306	The Middle Ages	4
HIS 308	Renaissance and Reformation	4
Total Credit Hours:		4

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

HIS 128	History of the Islamic World	4
HIS 217	China's Centuries of War and Revolution: since 1800	4
HIS 220	Introduction to African History	4
HIS 221	Japan's Modern Centuries	4
HIS 227	China and the World to 1800	4
HIS 228	Traditional Japan	4
HIS 236	Latin America	4
HIS 300	The Modern Middle East and North Africa	4
HIS 317	China's Revolutionary Twentieth Century	4
HIS 322	Spanish Caribbean and its Diasporas	4
HIS 323	Age of Revolutions in the Americas	4
HIS 332	Imperialism and Nationalism in Asia and Africa	4
Total Credit Hours:		4

Four History Electives at Any Level.

Total Credit Hours:

16

Total Credit Hours: 28

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, or any of the requirements listed above.

Total Credit Hours: 44