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Bachelor of Arts Degree - History

Overview

Degree Requirements:

  • General Education Courses
  • Major Courses
  • Minor Courses
  • Foreign Language Requirement
  • Electives

Degree available in Bismarck and DSUlive

Student Learning Outcomes

The history graduate will:   

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of past societies and familiarity with patterns of social, political, economic, and culture changes. (This learning outcome directly addresses Institutional Learning Outcomes I, II, IV, and V.)
  2. Recognize how information can be used as historical data and analyze the role of evidence in the construction of historical arguments. (This learning outcome directly addresses Institutional Learning Outcomes I, II, III, and VI.)
  3. Understand the challenge of weighing multiple perspectives and evaluate the merits of competing interpretations. (This learning outcome directly addresses Institutional Learning Outcomes I, II, V, VI, and VII.)
  4. Conduct research utilizing both primary and secondary sources and make assessments about the relative utility of gathered data. (This learning outcome directly addresses Institutional Learning Outcomes II, V, VI, and VII.)
  5. Construct persuasive and evidence based arguments about historical change and present them in written, visual, and oral formats. (This learning outcome directly addresses Institutional Learning Outcomes I, II, III, V, and VI.)

Career Options

Why should you pursue a Bachelor of Arts Degree - History?

A degree in history focuses on the general study and interpretation of the past, providing and extraordinary education and research opportunities, empowering students in such activities such as museum curator, and document researcher.

Possible Career Paths

  • Museum Director
  • Historian
  • Park Ranger
  • Document Researcher

Requirements

History Major Courses

HIST 103United States To 1877

3
HIST 104United States Since 1877

3
HIST 211World Civilizations To 1500

3
HIST 212World Civilizations Since 1500

3
 
HIST 491History Seminar

1-6
Three Credits Required
 
Additional Electives in History (300-400)

23

Total Credit Hours:38

Semester Sequence

First Semester

ENGL 110College Composition I

3
HIST 103United States To 1877

3
UNIV 100Freshman Seminar

1
General Education Human Behavior and Governance Course

3
General Education Natural Science Course/Lab

4
General Education Well-Being Course

2
Total Credit Hours:16

Second Semester

COMM 110Fundamentals Of Public Speaking

3
CSCI 101Introduction To Computers

3
ENGL 120College Composition II

3
MATH 103College Algebra

4
HIST 104United States Since 1877

3
Total Credit Hours:16

Third Semester

HIST 211World Civilizations To 1500

3
POLS 115American Government

3
PSYC 111Introduction to Psychology

3
Foreign Language Foreign Language course of your choice

4
General Education Creative Expression Course

3
Total Credit Hours:16

Fourth Semester

HIST 212World Civilizations Since 1500

3
SOC 110Introduction to Sociology

3
Elective HIST Elective 300 or above

3
Foreign Language Foreign Language course of your choice

4
General Education Literature Course

3
Total Credit Hours:16

Fifth Semester

ECON 106Global Economics

3
Elective HIST Elective 300 or above

3
Elective HIST Elective 300 or above

3
Minor Course Course from minor field of study

3
Elective Any course of your choice

3
Total Credit Hours:16

Sixth Semester

POLS 325Research Methods

3
Elective HIST Elective 300 or above

3
Elective HIST Elective 300 or above

3
Elective or Minor Course Elective or course from minor field of study

3
Elective or Minor Course Elective or course from minor field of study

3
Total Credit Hours:15

Seventh Semester

Elective HIST Elective 300 or above

3
Elective HIST Elective 300 or above

3
Elective or Minor Course Elective or course from minor field of study

3
Elective or Minor Course Elective or course from minor field of study

3
Elective or Minor Course Elective or course from minor field of study

3
Total Credit Hours:15

Eighth Semester

HIST 491History Seminar

1-6
Three Credits Required
Elective HIST Elective 300 or above

3
Elective HIST Elective 300 or above

3
Elective or Minor Course Elective or course from minor field of study

3
Total Credit Hours:12

CSCI 101 satisfies general education requirement 2A

POLS 115 satisfies general education requirement 2C

MATH 103 satisfies general education requirement 3B

The second foreign language course satisfies the general education elective requirement

The minor requires 24 credit hours