Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Arts and Letters

Department of History

History, Bachelor of Science


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“Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself,” said writer Julio Florencio Cortázar. This bachelor's degree provides students with perspectives from which to agree or disagree with this observation. The program offers flexibility for students to customize their program of study based on the period or type of history in which they are interested.

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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Arts and Letters

Department of History

History, Bachelor of Science


Careers

What Can I Do with a Bachelor of Science in History?

History is more than names and dates; it is the study of the human experience in all its facets, not just what happened, but how and why. If you're curious about the whys behind landmark events like the fall of Communism or Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, then our history program will interest you. Learn to think critically, develop research skills, and communicate more effectively. Clarify your understanding of human behavior past, present, and future. Experience our multi-disciplinary program and be informed by voices from diverse groups. You will build a foundation for careers in settings such as libraries, museums, and other cultural enterprises or prepare for further academic study. Our full range of courses explores history across the continents, with traditional scholarship and contemporary focuses on race, gender, ethnicity, and environmental history.

Career opportunities that might be pursued:
  • Editing
  • Foreign service
  • Foundation history work
  • Legal assistance

With further education, one of these paths is possible:
  • Attorney
  • Anthropologist
  • Archivist
  • Librarian

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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Arts and Letters

Department of History

History, Bachelor of Science


University Requirements

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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Arts and Letters

Department of History

History, Bachelor of Science


Overview

In addition to University Requirements:

Students may be able to use some courses to meet more than one requirement. Contact your advisor for details.

Minimum Units for Completion 120
Major GPA 2.5
Highest Mathematics Required MAT 114
Study Abroad Recommended
University Honors Program Optional
Accelerated Undergraduate/Graduate Plan Optional
AZ Transfer Students complete AGEC-A Recommended
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Purpose Statement

A Bachelor of Science in History provides students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed in civic life, in a variety of careers, and in post-graduate study. Our program equips students with historical knowledge and skills by exposing them to a variety of narratives, perspectives, and methods, and by guiding their exploration of diverse local, regional, and global societies.  Through their study of past societies, students develop the ability to engage in honest debate on past and current events as members of engaged, critical, and dynamic communities. Historical perspective and thinking are essential components of responsible and informed citizenship and provide significant advantages to students in a multicultural world and workplace. Our graduates attain writing, research, and critical and analytical thinking skills for history professions and a wide variety of careers in management, law, and education, among other fields.

Our curriculum trains students to find, evaluate, and employ primary and secondary sources as evidence to frame and answer questions through analysis, interpretation, and critical engagement. Students therefore learn to reach sound judgments and construct persuasive arguments through research rather than by relying on hearsay or presumptions. Students further develop an appreciation for the diversity of the human experience and consciousness of how local and global histories inform one another in both past and present, and how historical research can transform those relations. This historical training is enhanced by the completion of a minor field which prepares students to apply critical thinking and source analysis of history to other areas of study. The Bachelor of Science offers our graduates flexibility in shaping their future vocations in fields as varied as journalism, museum studies, law, politics, the non-profit and business sectors, and more.

Student Learning Outcomes

Historians portray the past with all its complexity, illuminating the tensions and synergies between human agency and larger historical and environmental forces in order to inform honest debate on past and current events by engaged, critical, and dynamic communities.

The Tools of a Historian’s Discipline

 

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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Arts and Letters

Department of History

History, Bachelor of Science


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Major Requirements
Minor Requirements
Accelerated Bachelor's to Master's Program
General Electives
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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Arts and Letters

Department of History

History, Bachelor of Science


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