History Major
History Option
Bachelor of Arts
NSS BA 5704
- Minimum General Studies = 45
- English Language minimum = 9
- Humanities minimum = 9
- Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science minimum = 3
- Natural Sciences minimum = 7
- Social and Behavioral Sciences minimum = 9
- Personal Development minimum = 2
- BA Language requirement = a minimum of 6
- The BA requires completion of two intermediate or advanced courses in a single modern
language. Students coming to campus having met the admission requirements taking effect in
1997 will typically have a 5-6 hour requirement. Students without two years of high school
language study will typically take 10 hours of first year language before completing this
requirement for intermediate or advanced courses.
- Major Option = 36
- Minor or 2nd Major, minimum = 24
- Minors are 24 hours; 18 must be unduplicated. Electing a second major may add as many as
18 required hours. Should 6 hours of the minor also meet other requirements, the
unrestricted electives will be greater.
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 111
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 14
- Minimum total hours required for BA in History = 125
- All UNK degrees require a minimum of 125 hours. Forty (40) of the hours required for
all UNK degrees must be upper division hours, which are courses numbered 300 or above
taken at a 4-year college or university.
- A. History Option Core Requirements (12 hours required)
- Take all of the following:
- HIST 250GS, American History - 3 hours
- HIST 251GS, American History - 3 hours
Take 6 hour total:
- Take 3 to 6 hours from:
- HIST 210GS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
- HIST 211GS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
- Take 0 to 3 hours from:
- HIST 212GS, Non-Western World History - 3 hours
- HIST 215GS, Introduction to Latin America - 3
hours
- B. History Option Advanced Courses (24 hours required)
- Take 24 hours from Advanced History Courses. At least 9 hours of the advanced history
hours must be 400 level courses.
- 1. History Option-Senior Seminar
- At the junior or senior level take:
- HIST 496, Senior Seminar in History: Variable
Topics - 3 hours
- Course topic reduces the hours required accordingly in Advanced US History, Advanced
European History OR Advanced Non-Western History.
- 2. History Option-Advanced US History.
- Take 9 hours from:
- HIST 405, The Plains Indians - 3 hours
- HIST 421, Women in America - 3 hours
- HIST 431, Colonial America, 1492-1750 - 3 hours
- HIST 432, Revolutionary America, 1750-1800 - 3
hours
- HIST 433, The National Period, 1800-1850 - 3
hours
- HIST 445, The Civil War and Reconstruction - 3
hours
- HIST 455,
Comparative Studies in Ethnic Conflict - 3 hours
- HIST 456, Regional Field Study - 1-4 hours
- HIST 471, History of the Pacific Rim - 3 hours
- HIST 473, American Constitutional History I - 3
hours
- HIST 474, American Constitutional History II -
3 hours
- HIST 475, Internship in History - 1-9 hours
- HIST 477, American Thought and Culture,
1620-1865 - 3 hours
- HIST 478, American Thought and Culture,
1865-1990 - 3 hours
- HIST 479, Nebraska and the Great Plains History
- 3 hours
- HIST 481, North American Frontiers, 1500-1850 -
3 hours
- HIST 482, The American West, 1850-present - 3
hours
- HIST 483, The Gilded Age, 1870-1898 - 3 hours
- HIST 484, The United States, 1898-1941 - 3
hours
- HIST 485, The United States Since 1941 - 3
hours
- HIST 495, Topical Studies - 3 hours
- HIST 499, Independent Study - 1-4 hours
- 3. History Option-Advanced European History
- Take 9 hours from:
- HIST 360, Renaissance and Reformation - 3 hours
- HIST 375, English History - 3 hours
- HIST 376, English History - 3 hours
- HIST 420, Women in Europe - 3 hours
- HIST 456, Regional Field Study - 1-4 hours
- HIST 457, British Empire - 3 hours
- HIST 459, European Expansion and Exploration -
3 hours
- HIST 462, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
Europe - 3 hours
- HIST 463, French Revolution and Napoleon - 3
hours
- HIST 475, Internship in History - 1-9 hours
- HIST 486, Imperial Russia - 3 hours
- HIST 488, Nineteenth Century Europe - 3 hours
- HIST 489, Fascism and Communism in Twentieth
Century Europe - 3 hours
- HIST 490, Twentieth Century Europe - 3 hours
- HIST 492, Soviet Russia - 3 hours
- HIST 493, Modern Eastern Europe - 3 hours
- HIST 495, Topical Studies - 3 hours
- HIST 499, Independent Study - 1-4 hours
- 4. History Option-Advanced Non-Western History
- Take 6 hours from:
- HIST 439,
Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Latin America - 3 hours
- HIST 441,
Modern Latin America - 3 hours
- HIST 450, Variable Topics in Latin American
History - 3 hours
- HIST 451, Comparative Colonialism: Asia and
Africa - 3 hours
- HIST 452, Colonial India - 3 hours
- HIST 453, Modern India - 3 hours
- HIST 455, Comparative Studies in Ethnic
Conflict - 3 hours
- HIST 456, Regional Field Study - 1-4 hours
- HIST 457, British Empire - 3 hours
- HIST 475, Internship in History - 1-9 hours
- HIST 486, Imperial Russia - 3 hours
- HIST 495, Topical Studies - 3 hours
- HIST 499, Independent Study - 1-4 hours
11 May 2006
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