View the History Major Requirement Sheet (PDF)

View the B.A. Liberal Education Requirements Sheet (PDF)

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History requires 33 hours of coursework. These hours include 12 hours of introductory history, all of which meet the University Diversity Requirement:

HIST 11050	History of Civilization I
HIST 11051	History of Civilization II
HIST 12070	History of the United States: The Formative Period
HIST 12071	History of the United States: The Modern Period
HIST 32050	Majors are also required to take The Historian's Craft. This course fulfills the University's writing-intensive requirement.

The additional 18 hours required for the major must be taken in upper-division courses. They must include at least 6 hours of United States history, 6 hours of European history since 1500, and 6 hours of African, Asian, Latin America, ancient, or medieval history.

Students matriculating before September 2004, may substitute one upper-division course that has been designated "writing-intensive" or add a one-credit-hour "writing- intensive" component to an existing course (with the permission of the instructor) to fulfill the University's requirement.