Department of History
Degree Programs

OBJECTIVES

The history department has a three-fold objective. First, the department works to provide a major that prepares students for graduate study in history, law, public services, and archival work, while still encouraging a broad perspective and measured judgment appropriate for the graduate entering almost any career. Next, the department provides a minor and a variety of elective courses intended to hone interests and deepen knowledge in particular subject fields as well as enabling the student to synthesize knowledge from other disciplines. Finally, the department presents General Education courses to help students better understand themselves, their national heritage, and the world in which they live. Through all of the above, the department hopes that students will also understand how events in the past did and did not happen and, perhaps most importantly, that neither the history of their country nor of the world is a simple morality play.

DEGREES OFFERED

History (B.A.)
Minor in History
History/Political Science (B.A.)