History Major
History-Social Science Comprehensive Option
Bachelor of Science
NSS BS 5703
- Minimum General Studies = 45
- including General Studies coursework required by major
- 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 = 3
- CSIS 108GS, Computers in Society - 3 hours
- BS Science-related course requirements = 0
- Major Option = 57
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 102
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 23
- Minimum total hours required for BS in Social Science Comprehensive/History Emphasis
= 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. Social Science Comprehensive/History Emphasis 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. Social Science Comprehensive/History Emphasis Advanced Courses (18 hours required)
- Take 18 hours from Advanced History Courses
At least 6 hours must be 400 level courses.
- 1. Social Science Comprehensive/History Emphasis -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. Advanced US History
- Take 6 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 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. Advanced European History
- Take 6 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 455,
Comparative Studies in Ethnic Conflict - 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. 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
- C. Social Science Courses-From Economics, Geography, Political Science, Psychology,
and Sociology (27 hours required)
- Take 15 hours in ONE area, and at least 3 hours in each remaining area to total 27.
- 1. Economics Emphasis
- Take 3 to 15 hours from:
- ECON 100GS-499
- 2. Geography Emphasis
- Take 3 to 15 hours from:
- GEOG 100-499
- 3. Political Science Emphasis
- Take 3 to 15 hours from:
- PSCI 100GS-499
- 4. Psychology Emphasis
- Take 3 to 15 hours from:
- PSY 100-499
- 5. Sociology Emphasis
- Take 3 to 15 hours from:
- SOC 100-499
11 May 2006
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