History Program Requirements
History Major
Requirements: 30 credits
A History major consists of 30 hours of History credits.
Geography courses automatically count towards the History major.
Anthropology and other university courses may, with approval of the
department head, be applied to the History major.
- HST101 plus two additional courses at the 100-200 level, one in
U.S. History and one focused outside
U.S.
- HST301: Historical Method and Historiography
- 15 additional elective History credits must be taken at the
300-level or above.
- HST401: Seminar in History
History or Geography Minor
A minor in either History or Geography each requires 18 hours of
coursework, 12 of which must be taken at the upper-division level
(300 or above).
Combined History/Political Science Major
Requirements: 48 credits
- Political Science (24 hours)
- 6 hours from among PO101, PO 131, PO 141, PO 151, PO 210, or
PO220
- 18 hours of PO courses at the 300 level or above, including at
least one semester of PO490 and one each of a U.S. and a non-U.S.
focused course.
- History (21 hours)
- 6 hours from among HST101, HST111, HST211, HST212, HST213, and
HST214. Students should choose one U.S. HST course, one
non-U.S. HST course.
- 15 HST hours at upper division level, including a 3 hours
research seminar, HST401.
- Program Research Methods Requirement (3
hours)
- 3 hours of either PO201, Research and Analysis, or HST301,
Historical Method and Historiography
Combined History/Anthropology Major
Requirements: 48 credits
HST101 or AN101
- History (21 hours)
- 6 hours from among HST111, HST211, HST212, HST213, or HST214
(from two distinct geographical areas)
- 3 hours of Historiography (HST301)
- 9 hours of upper-division courses (300-level and above; from at
least two distinct geographical areas)
- 3 hours of HST401
- Anthropology (21 hours)
- 3 hours of Introductory Anthropology (SW215)
- 3 hours of Development of Anthropological Thought (AN390)
- 3 hours of Anthropological Methods (AN350)
- 6 hours of Area Courses (AN360)
- 6 hours of Topics Courses (AN300-349)
- Geography (3 hours)
- 3 hours of Cultural Geography (GE109)
- Core and Methodology (4 hours)