History, B.A.

Bachelor of Science in History

Master of Science in Adolescence Education, Grades 7–12

 For specific major requirements please refer to the History section of this catalog listed within the School of Liberal Arts.

The Adolescence Graduate Courses that must be completed for the B.A. degree are the following:

• course - Educational Foundations from Diverse Perspectives

• course - Foundations in Education for Students with Disabilities from Birth through Adolescence

• course - Teaching English as a Second Language

• course - Approaches to Literacy in Early Childhood through Adolescence

• course- Educational Psychology and Adolescent Development

The above 15 credits are taken as an undergraduate student as part of the B.A. degree program. The remaining 15 credits are taken as a graduate student after receiving the B.A. degree and meeting the admission requirements for acceptance into the M.S. degree program. To complete the master’s degree in one calendar year, students must take two courses during summer session. Please see Graduate Catalog for course descriptions for the above courses and for specific requirements for the M.S. degree.

*Students in the 4+1 program must take course - Contemporary Issues in Childhood & Education Credits: 3, under the Social Perspectives General Education Disciplinary Grouping, as a general education elective

Graduate Progression Criteria

In the final undergraduate year, students in the B.A. History / M.S. Adolescence Education, Grades 7-12 program will be evaluated by the School of Education Associate Dean and graduate Program Director for a review of their qualifications to progress to the graduate education portion of the program, including:

1. Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA and in Graduate Education courses

2. Submit a written Effective Educator Statement. 

Students in the 4+1 program who do not meet the above criteria, will not be permitted to continue to the graduate education portion of the program. Their major will be changed to the B.A. History and the undergraduate degree will be conferred upon completion of the undergraduate program. Credits earned for graduate education courses taken will be applied to the undergraduate degree as elective credit.

Major Concentration in History:

Students must take nine (9) major courses numbered at the 200 or 300 level under the five fields of study: United States; Europe; Asia; Atlantic World; and Ideas, Theories, and Practices. For these nine (9) courses, students must take at least two (2) courses in three (3) fields of study. At least four (4) courses in the field of study must be taken at the 300-level.

In addition to the nine (9) field of study courses, majors are required to take three (3) courses on historical methodology.

• The first, course - Intro Research Methods, requires successful completion of course as a prerequisite.

• The second, course - Historiography/Historical Methods, may only be taken after the successful completion of 18 credits in history.

• The final course, course - Senior Seminar in History, may only be taken after successful completion of course.

It is recommended that majors should not take more than one additional history course in the same semester as course and course because both courses require students to produce an original research project. course and course may not be taken concurrently.

Fields of Study

Students must take at least two courses in three fields of study. No more than 3 courses in each concentration will count towards the major.

United States History

• course - American Studies I

• course - Afro/Amer Hist Reconstruction

• course - African Amer since Reconstrct

• course - Latinos/as in the U.S.

• course - Latinx Racial and Ethnic Identities

• course - US-Latin American Relations

• course - World War II in America

• course - Amr Gld Age/Prog Era 1877-1920

• course - The American Revolution

• course - History of the US Since 1941

• course- Early American Republic

• course - Slavery & the Civil War

• course - The American Presidency

• course - The American Presidency

• course - American Foreign Policy

• course - History of Family in America

• course- Topics in United States History

• course - Topics in History (as applicable)

• course- Advanced Special Topics in United States History

• course - Adv Special Topics History (as applicable)

European History

• course - Early Modern Europe

• course - The World of Antiquity

• course - The Enlightenment

• course - Medieval Culture & Society

• course - 19th Century Europe

• course - History of 20th Century Europe

• course - Topics in European History

• course - The History of Central Europe

• course - WW II and Europe

• course - Tudor and Stuart England

• course- Modern Russia

• course - The French Revolution and Napoleon

• course - Advanced Special Topics in European History

• course - Adv Special Topics History (as applicable)

• course - Topics in History (as applicable)

Asia

• course - History of the Middle East

• course - History of Modern Japan

• course - Modern East Asia: Cultural History

• course - Topics in Asian History

• course - Chinese History Since 1949

• course - Asia in Revolution

• course - World War II in Asia

• course - Twentieth Century Korea

• course - Modern China: 1839-1949

• course - Topics in History (as applicable)

• course - Advanced Special Topics in Asian History

• course - Adv Special Topics History

Atlantic World

• course - History of Puerto Rico

• course - Black Atlantic: Lit/History

• course - US-Latin American Relations

• course - Topics in Atlantic World History

• course - Africa: Colonial/Independence

• course - Topics in History (as applicable)

• course - Political Violence and Memory in Latin America

• course - Advanced Special Topics In Atlantic World History

• course - Adv Special Topics History (as applicable)

Ideas, Theories, and Practices

• course - Problems Gender & Women’s Hist

• course - The Immigrant Experience

• course - Topics in History (as applicable)

• course - Topics in Ideas, Theories, and Practices

• course - Adv Special Topics History (as applicable)

• course - Advanced Special Topics in Ideas, Theories, and Practices

• course - Independent Study History

• course - Internship in History

Required

• course - Intro Research Methods

• course - Historiography/Historical Meth

• course - Senior Seminar in History

Total Program Credits: 36