History Major

Course Title
Major Requirements (12 units)
2 undergraduate seminars:
HISTORY 393-0 Approaches to History (taken as soon as possible after declaring the history major)
HISTORY 395-0 Research Seminar (should be taken in junior or senior year and need not be within the student’s concentration)
10 additional 200- or 300-level courses:
For nonglobal history concentrations:
6 courses in a geographic concentration. See department website for eligible courses; 1 only allowed from:
HISTORY 101-6 First-Year Seminar--European History
or HISTORY 102-6 First-Year Seminar--American History
or HISTORY 103-6 First-Year Seminar--Non-Western History
4 courses outside the geographic concentration
For global history concentration:
HISTORY 250-1 & HISTORY 250-2 Global History: Early Modern to Modern Transition and Global History: The Modern World
2 additional global history courses (see department website for eligible courses)
6 courses outside global history, either 2 each in three geographic areas or 3 each in 2 geographic areas
At least 2 of the 12 courses must be in fields other than modern European or US history (e.g., courses in European history before 1800 or in African, Asian, Middle Eastern, or Latin American history in any period).